New Zealand: Crashed navy ship was left on autopilot

A New Zealand naval ship which crashed into a coral reef before it caught fire and sank had been left on autopilot, an official inquiry has found. Crew members of…

LIVE UPDATES: Israel-Gaza War

Palestinian killed by Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza An Israeli drone has carried out an attack near the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing…

India: Fatal car crash in Uttar Pradesh sparks concerns over Google Maps

Can a navigation app be held responsible if a user gets into an accident? That is the question being asked in India after three men died when their car veered…

Sweden: PM Ulf Kristersson asks China to co-operate over severed cables

Sweden has formally asked China to co-operate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents. The cables…

Chad: N’Djamena cuts military agreement with France

Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region.Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it…

UK: Court convicts former soldier of passing intelligence to Iran

A former British soldier has been convicted of passing on sensitive information to people connected with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On Thursday, a jury at Woolwich Crown Court…

Canada: Watchdog sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct

Canada’s Competition Bureau is suing Google for alleged anti-competitive conduct in its online advertising. In a statement, the country’s antitrust watchdog alleged Google had illegally linked two advertising tools to…

Georgia: Protesters clash with police after Tbilisi suspends EU bid

Riot police in Georgia used pepper spray and water cannon against protesters who turned out on the streets of Tbilisi after the government suspended moves to join the European Union.…

UK: Ford calls for incentives to buy electric cars as backlash grows

Ford UK has called on the government to introduce incentives to encourage drivers to buy electric vehicles (EVs) as an industry backlash grows over sales targets.Lisa Brankin, Ford UK’s chair…

India: Airlines hit by nearly 1,000 hoax bomb threats

India’s airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country’s deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament.This was nearly 10 times more than…