Eighteen people have appeared in court in connection with protests in Cardiff in June against the war in Gaza. The 10 women and eight men are charged with offences including assaulting an emergency worker, locking on to a person to cause serious disruption to South Wales Police, obstructing an officer, wilful obstruction of the highway, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that would ban the popular social media app next month unless it sells itself. The case is set for oral argument on Jan. 10, nine days before TikTok is scheduled to be shut down in the U.S. “The parties are directed to […]

France’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy must serve a one-year sentence at home wearing an electronic ankle monitor. The Court of Cassation rejected the conservative politician’s appeal of a lower court’s conviction for corruption and influence-peddling. The lower court had given him a

The News Saudi Arabia’s construction boom is accelerating, with Riyadh emerging as the focal point of the kingdom’s giga-projects. Diriyah Co. — backed by the Public Investment Fund — awarded a $202 million contract to China Harbour Engineering Co. for bulk excavation in the second phase of the $62 billion Diriyah project. One of the […]

The poor economic situation in Germany and nine other European Union countries could have negative consequences for the entire bloc, the European Commission warned in a report published on Wednesday. The “macroeconomic imbalances” in these countries raised concerns in the so-called Alert Mechanism Report and will now be analysed in grea