Police in Hong Kong arrested five bookstore workers on suspicion of breaches of the territory's national security laws during raids on two shops.

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former Atlantia CEO Giovanni ‌Castellucci to 12 years in prison over the deadly 2018 collapse of a motorway bridge in the northwestern port city of Genoa.

President Donald Trump said Iran released an American woman who he said had been wrongfully detained since December 2024. The woman was later identified as Dena Karari.

FIFA has been hit with a court injunction over its ticketing practices just days before the conclusion of the 2026 World Cup. This week, a court in Frankfurt, Germany ordered soccer’s global governing body to stop “facilitating ticket sales” in ways that the petitioner—European online ticket resale platform Ticombo—labelled “manipulative.

Officials said it was an especially perilous time for the sea journey by members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, hundreds of whom died on the same route last year.

The European Union has issued new rules for Google, requiring it to share search data and open its Android system to rival AI companies

More than half the House Democrats voted Wednesday to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid from Israel, the most substantial signal yet that once rock-solid bipartisan support for the country is disintegrating in the aftermath of its war in Gaza that has killed thousands of Palestinians.

Six members of Parliament in Canada are calling for the president of the King's Privy Council for Canada to release the full agreement with the U.S. on the Gordie Howe International Bridge, amid concerns about who would actually benefit from the toll profits.