Simone Gbagbo, Ivory Coast’s iron lady, eyes presidential palace in unlikely comeback bid
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Years after she was holed up in a bunker alongside her then-husband and president who had refused to step down following an election loss, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is seeking to return to the presidential palace in Ivory...
Johnson calls Epstein files a ‘shiny object’ for Democrats amid government shutdown
WASHINGTON (CN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday accused Democrats of wielding the Jeffrey Epstein files as a political cudgel against President Donald Trump and as a distraction from the ongoing government shutdown. And despite accusations from Democrats that...
A court in Slovakia sentences a man to 21 years over the attempted assassination of prime minister
PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia on Tuesday convicted a man of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison over last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The shooting and the trial have...
Vance visits Israel and says Gaza’s fragile ceasefire is going better than expected
KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism Tuesday about Gaza ‘s fragile ceasefire agreement, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited a new center in Israel for civilian and military...
Not so Nordic: New Japan PM names just 2 other women to cabinet
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi named just two other women in her 19-strong cabinet on Tuesday, despite previously promising “Nordic” levels of representation in her government. They are Japan’s first woman finance...
European airlines drop vague promises on carbon offsets
PARIS (AFP) — European airlines are starting to become prudent when promoting flight carbon-offset measures, such as reforestation, following courtroom losses and stepped-up pressure by regulators. Dutch airline KLM in March last year lost a case about greenwashing —...
EU guts deforestation law, but US exporters get no break
BRUSSELS (CN) — The European Union said Tuesday it will dramatically scale back its controversial deforestation law, exempting close to 100% of producers and thousands of manufacturers from key compliance requirements in what officials privately acknowledge is a...
Europe backs Trump’s Ukraine peace push as Kremlin hedges on summit
BRUSSELS (AFP) — European leaders Tuesday threw their support behind President Donald Trump’s peace push for Ukraine, while reaffirming their red lines, as the Kremlin cast doubt on chances of an imminent summit between the U.S. leader and Vladimir Putin. Fresh...
Supporters decry prison term for former French President Sarkozy as he begins 5-year sentence
PARIS (CN) — On Tuesday morning in the plush 16th arrondissement of Paris, hundreds of people chanting “Ni-co-las” crowded in narrow streets carving through Haussmannian buildings. They gathered to protest the incarceration of Nicolas Sarkozy, the only former...