French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency defense council meeting at the Élysée Palace on Thursday to discuss Greenland and Iran - among other issues. He then visited a military base in the s...
After shutting down the internet, the Iranian government is now attempting to jam the Starlink satellite service made free to Iranians by the company. Iranians are now seeking ways to circumvent this ...
The United Nations announced it will assume control of the Al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which houses thousands of people suspected of having links to the Islamic State group, after Kurdish-led ...
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...
European Union leaders on Saturday warned of a "dangerous downward spiral" over US President Donald Trump's vow to implement increasing tariffs on European allies until the US is allowed to buy Gre...
Whole milk, yuck. Getty Images; BI The government's latest dietary guidelines suggest people drink whole milk instead of low-fat. This matters a lot for school lunches, where whole milk will get top b...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI From Davos to Washington to America's high school classrooms, people are questioning the foundations of our economic system — and we at Business Insider are tracking wh...
Thousands of people protested against US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Friday, after a five-year-old boy and his father were detained by ICE agents....
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The Ukrainian president said in his speech at Davos that a year had passed since his last address at the same summit, when he warned Europe that it needed to learn self-defence, yet "nothing has chang...
Many countries, including the UK, have turned their backs on the project after Putin was asked to join...
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European leaders criticise stance on Arctic island, with Macron taking aim at US president’s ‘useless aggressivity’...
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As the Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade accusations of breaking a troop withdrawal agreement in the country's north, FRANCE 24 Damascus correspondent Dana Alboz breaks down how the Syrian mili...
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...
The partnership between Italy and Japan — its third-largest trading partner in Asia — centres on defence and security, economic security and critical minerals, and cooperation in Africa....