From steering her country into NATO to headlines about partying, Sanna Marin is a modern, feminist leader who has nonetheless proved a polarising prime minister of Finland.. Having deftly navigated Finland through the Covid-19 pandemic and led its historic NATO membership application process, Marin is the country's most popular prime minister this century, according to polls.
A "catastrophic" tornado tore through the southern US state of Arkansas on Friday, and authorities said it caused "widespread damage" and left 24 people hospitalized.. Authorities in Pulaski County surrounding the state capital said it suffered "significant storm and tornado damage."
The giant skeletons of burnt and dismantled gold dredgers litter the rivers of northwest Colombia, where the government is waging a full-out war on illegal mining.. Criminal groups in Colombia make almost as much money from illegal mining as they do from trafficking cocaine, authorities say.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Guatemala Friday on a visit to shore up ties with dwindling allies following a trip to the United States that angered China.. Tsai arrived in Guatemala on Friday afternoon, where she was received with military honors and met by Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday called on the European Union to "seriously consider" providing financial aid to help extend an anti-migrant steel fence along the border with Turkey. . Athens has decided to extend by 35 kilometres (21.7 miles) a five-metre high steel fence which runs along the Evros river marking the border with Turkey.
A Romanian court on Friday ordered that controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother be moved from jail to house arrest while they are investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape.. Tate, a British-American former kickboxer with millions of online followers, along with his younger brother and two Romanian women, are under investigation for allegedly "forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking and rape".
Flaunting his bulging muscles, cigars and fast cars, Andrew Tate's videos posted on social media fascinate millions of teenage boys.. In August last year, he was banned from social media platforms, including Instagram and TikTok, for misogynist messages.
The International Monetary Fund has approved a $15.6 billion support package for Ukraine to assist with the conflict-hit country's economic recovery, the fund said in a statement Friday.. The 48-month Extended Fund Facility approved by the fund's board is worth roughly $15.6 billion.
Luisa Jimenez thought she was visiting an office to regularize her stay in Mexico, but instead she found herself detained in an immigration center similar to the one where dozens of migrants perished in a fire.. Migrants are not supposed to remain in temporary-stay centers like the one that caught fire for more than seven days.
Stormy Daniels, the ex-porn star embroiled in the sex scandal behind Donald Trump's indictment, said in a UK newspaper interview published Friday that the criminal charges show he is "no longer untouchable".. "Trump is no longer untouchable," she said.
