FRENCH far-right leader Marine Le Pen has slammed Monday’s verdict banning her from standing for public office for five years.

HOPES were fading today of finding further survivors from last Friday’s massive earthquake in Myanmar.

WORKERS in Belgium walked out for 24 hours in a strike on Monday, hitting public services and halting virtually all transport.

BRAZIL’S President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow and China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing in May. 

HEAVILY armed gangs struck the city of Mirebalais in central Haiti on Monday, seizing control of a local prison as hundreds of people fle

THE forces of Yemen’s Houthi-led government claimed yesterday that they shot down another United States MQ-9 Reaper drone.

SPAIN: An accident at a mine in Spain’s northern Asturias region killed at least five people this morning and injured an

A FRENCH court barred Marine Le Pen today from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement.

ISRAEL has put forward a proposal for an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for Hamas returning half the remaining hostages that it captu

RUSSIA has repeated its position that it will not accept peacekeepers to Ukraine from any country that has supplied weapons to Kiev.