The World Desk covers global affairs, diplomacy and international news. Its articles are researched and drafted with AI assistance, and every one is reviewed by a named editor before publication.
Edited by Lasse Pedersen
Exit polls from Israel's first election since the 7 October 2023 attack show neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc nor the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot reaching a Knesset majority.
Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in Serbia's snap parliamentary election, as the youth-backed Student List took a majority of seats amid record turnout following nearly two years of protests.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff vote, completing a comeback from a first-round deficit. Bolsonaro has refused to accept the outcome and says he will seek to have the election annulled.
Finnish authorities have ordered Google to stop preparatory construction at two planned AI data centre sites after hundreds of thousands of trees were cut down before environmental reviews were finished.
Beijing's new 20 percent tax on gains from offshore trusts has a payment deadline of October 22, 2026. Bloomberg estimates eight of China's richest tycoons could have roughly $140 billion in exposed assets.
After a weekend of rioting and looting across France left thousands of shops damaged, suspected stolen goods began appearing for sale on Vinted, eBay and Amazon, prompting the French government to summon the platforms.
Senator Thom Tillis says a White House deal allowing Russia to supply diesel to global markets may break US law, as a bipartisan group of senators demands the administration reverse course.
A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after one pilot stabbed the other mid-flight. Passengers and crew overpowered the attacker, and the plane landed safely with all 174 people aboard.
Addressing the UN General Assembly's 81st session, President Trump warned Iran of annihilation, rebranded artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence' and expanded US military access to Greenland, even as his own envoys met Iranian officials on the sidelines.
Republican leaders adjourned Congress roughly seven weeks before the midterms, a move that also postponed a procedural impeachment vote against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth until after the election.
A Reuters investigation finds Ukrainian and Western officials worried that NATO's weapons, tactics and procurement cycles are lagging behind the fast-moving, drone-heavy battlefield in Ukraine.
A Reuters investigation finds much of the factory activity President Trump credits to his policies is automakers reversing earlier electric-vehicle commitments, not building new plants.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada become the EU's first associate member, a status not defined in the bloc's treaties, as Ottawa seeks closer ties with Europe amid tensions with Washington.
Vice President JD Vance delivered a keynote speech in Dallas that cemented his status as the Republican Party's presumed frontrunner for 2028, though Donald Trump has stopped short of a formal endorsement.
Copernicus Climate Change Service says global temperatures matched July 2023's record, as western Europe logged its warmest summer since 2003 and the UK its hottest since 1884.
The European Commission has unveiled plans to simplify EU tender rules and let public bodies weigh security and supply-chain risks, not just price, in a push to reduce reliance on Chinese imports.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday carrying a US proposal to end the war in Ukraine, before a planned first-ever visit to Kyiv. Russian missiles hit airports near the Ukrainian capital hours before the delegation's onward trip.
De Nederlandsche Bank has shifted gold worth roughly €10 billion from New York and Ottawa to the Bank of England, citing rising geopolitical unrest and a need for faster access in a crisis.
Nvidia's latest earnings beat forecasts and revived confidence in the artificial intelligence boom, sending chip and technology stocks higher across Asia. Separately, new UK data show a small quarterly fall in the number of young people not in education, employment or training.
Kenya's dairy regulator has replaced paper-based inspection processes with a digital system built by Danish firm cBrain, modelled on inspection practices used by Denmark's Environmental Protection Agency.
A new bill would give Beijing legal tools to pursue corrupt officials, fugitives and hidden assets abroad. Lawmakers began their first reading of the draft this week, though its full text remains unpublished.
Kuwait, a longtime American ally, has come under repeated Iranian attack since the war with the US and Israel began in February. Some residents now wonder aloud whether hosting US forces makes them safer or simply a target.
An investigation ordered by President Bola Tinubu has found no evidence linking his chief of staff to a bogus federal investment body, concluding a self-styled director-general acted alone and forged official documents to run it.
Swedish authorities are seeking to expropriate land near a naval installation after concluding it is owned by a Russian national with reported ties to the Kremlin.