The Foreign Ministry's new pick to serve as Indonesia's governor to the intergovernmental nonprofit indicates a growing focus on soft diplomacy in strengthening both bilateral and interregional ties.

In France, some 380,000 households lost power, mostly in the Normandy region and in Brittany, the Enedis power provider said.

It is the second time that Russia has used the intermediate-range Oreshnik, a missile which President Vladimir Putin has boasted is impossible to intercept because of its reported velocity of more than 10 times the speed of sound.

Trump has stepped up his designs on the mineral-rich, self-governing Danish territory in the arctic since the US military seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last weekend.

Washington's military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears about Trump's designs on the autonomous Danish territory, which has untapped rare earth deposits and could be a vital player as polar ice melts, opening up new shipping routes.

Witnesses reported seeing staff at the Le Constellation bar carrying so-called fountain candles atop bottles of champagne.

Around 40 people died and more than 100 were injured in the fire that ripped through the crowded Le Constellation bar around 1:30 a.m. local time.

The French government will submit draft legislation for legal checks in early January, Le Monde and France Info reported.

Territorial issues remain a hurdle to negotiations moving forward, as the Ukrainian president saying any compromises on territory should be decided by the Ukrainian people in a potential referendum.

Leo, celebrating his first Christmas after being elected in May by the world's cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis, has a quieter, more diplomatic style than his predecessor and usually refrains from making political references in his sermons.

The condemnation is a response to Israel's decision to green-light new settlements, which is said to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Leo, the first United States-born pope, is celebrating his first Christmas after being elected in May by the world's cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis.

They are believed to be among three crew members reported missing after the vessel sank on December 14 in choppy waters, some 100 kilometres north of the city of Porto.

The protests in the capital Sofia and several other towns and cities across the Black Sea nation are the latest in a series of rolling demonstrations and come as Bulgaria prepares to adopt the euro on Jan. 1.

This year's prize represented a "gross misappropriation" of funds and the "facilitation of war crimes" under Swedish law, according to the complaint posted by WikiLeaks on social media.

Five Indonesian migrant workers, including two who have tested positive for leprosy, are currently under observation by Romanian health authorities, the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta said on Monday, adding that its representatives are coordinating with local authorities to manage Europe’s first reported leprosy cases in four decades.

The vessel carrying five people sank on Sunday morning "in a rocky area of Insua Island" in the northern municipality of Caminha, Portugal's National Maritime Authority said in a statement.

Romania's last confirmed case of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was detected 44 years ago.

It was the second time the pair have met this year in Russia, as Putin courts Prabowo, the leader of the world's fourth most populous country, to build stronger ties with the Global South while his economy remains under Western sanctions because of the war in Ukraine.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but hours before the ceremony it was still unclear whether she would attend.

Since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US strategies have designated Moscow as a major threat. However, the updated US policy, announced on Friday, adopts a softer tone, urging limited cooperation.

Three days of talks between Ukrainian and US officials produced no apparent breakthrough Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky committing to further negotiations toward "real peace," even as Russia launched another series of drone and missile strikes on its neighbor.

The UN reported on Feb. 14 that Ukrainian authorities said a drone with a high explosive warhead struck the plant, caused a fire and damaged the protective cladding around reactor Number Four, which was destroyed in the 1986 disaster.

Among the focus of the bilateral discussion between Foreign Minister Sugiono and his Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide was a plan to procure 80,000 solar panels under President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship Red and White Cooperatives program.

Trump has said he wants to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two but his efforts so far, including a summit with Putin in Alaska in August and meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, have not yet brought peace.

The Air Force expects the delivery of its first three Rafale aircraft at the beginning of 2026, as revealed on Nov. 28 during an acceptance ceremony hosted by Dassault Aviation in France.

An Italian minister decried the sauce for containing pancetta, a pork product similar to bacon, which is apparently a major culinary faux pas in food-loving Italy.

Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024, an increase of 2.1 percent on the previous year, of which nearly 36 percent were victims of rape and sexual assault.

US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to sign but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pledged to work to ensure any deal would not "betray" Ukraine's interests, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally.

Box office revenues in many countries remain well below the levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiplexes in the United States and Canada just suffering their worst summer since 1981, excluding the COVID-19 shutdown.