Americans are deeply skeptical of President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, though he is shoring up support among his core Republican followers who have long focused on the case, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

King Charles said on Friday his treatment for cancer can be reduced in the next year as he talked about his experience living with the disease in a televised address.

Fighter jets, bombers and surveillance drones: the United States military has flown a variety of aircraft along Venezuela's coast in recent weeks, an AFP analysis shows, amid growing fears of conflict between the countries.

Ukraine would be slated to join the European Union by January 1 2027 under a peace proposal being discussed as part of US-mediated negotiations.

An Indian-origin millionaire, Vikram Beri, was arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to set fire to a winery in California. While trying to flee, he intentionally crashed into two parked cars.

YouTube has hit pause on a dating show that whisked eight men and women from deeply conservative Pakistan to a sun-soaked Istanbul villa, where the strangers mingled, flirted and searched for chemistry.

Germany on Friday accused Russia of a cyberattack targeting its air traffic control and spreading disinformation ahead of February's general election, charges dismissed by Russia as "absurd" and "baseless".

Rains drenched Gaza's tent camps, and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory.

The European Union looked set on Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets held in Europe, removing a big obstacle to using the cash to help Ukraine defend itself against Moscow's invasion.

Ukraine's special forces said on Friday they had conducted an operation alongside what they described as a local resistance movement to hit two Russian ships transporting weapons and military equipment in the Caspian sea.

A moving scene unfolded in the European Parliament in Brussels when an interpreter broke down mid-sentence while translating the testimony of an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who survived a Russian missile strike on a children's hospital in Vinnytsia.

Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who has been living in self-exile in London for 17 years, will return to Bangladesh on December 25, the BNP said on Friday.

For the first time since Partition, Sanskrit has quietly made its way back into classrooms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Controversial British adult film star Bonnie Blue will be deported from Indonesia's Bali island, an immigration official said Friday, after earlier receiving a small fine for traffic violations.

A series of Israeli strikes hit south and east Lebanon on Friday, state media reported, as Israel's army said it was targeting Hezbollah sites, the latest such raids despite a year-old ceasefire.

Turkey and the United States are discussing the US sanctions and obstacles to Ankara rejoining the F-35 jet programme but nothing has changed with respect to its possession of Russian S-400 air defences, the defence ministry said on Friday.

Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee released 19 photos out of the 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.

Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, publicly appealed to X owner Elon Musk on Friday, alleging that her posts about Khan's situation are being suppressed on the platform.

Iranian security forces on Friday "violently" arrested the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, her supporters said.

According to a video shared by RT India, Sharif ended up walking into a closed-door meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his own scheduled bilateral with the Russian leader was delayed.