Three Bozar board members are resigning in protest against the planned arrival of Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. Among them is Minister of State Jos Geysels, who has served on the board since 2021. Actor and filmmaker Mohamed Ouachen and Els Silvrants-Barclay are also stepping down.
Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa announced her resignation on social media on Thursday. The fall of her government follows a May 7 drone incident.
A new book by Florian Tardif, journalist for Paris Match, claims that the infamous slap Brigitte Macron gave her husband at Hanoi airport in May 2025 was triggered by a text message she found on his phone from Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani.
U.S. President Donald Trump is in China for a bipartisan summit with President Xi Jinping. The visit focuses on negotiations regarding trade, technology (chips) and strategic issues such as Taiwan. Trump is being joined on his trip by U.S. CEOs to strengthen economic ties between the two geopolitical powerhouses.
There were 1 dead and 31 wounded in a major Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian capital Kiev last night. Authorities report this 48 hours after the ceasefire with Russia expired. Moreover, it is highly doubtful that a full ceasefire has effectively taken place given the bombings on both sides during the temporary truce.
"It's a miracle they survived," U.S. Army Capt. Rory Whipple told CBS News after a plane crashed off the coast of Florida.
The tech sector is losing jobs at an alarming rate this year. According to the website Layoffs.fyi, during the first four months of 2026, over 103,500 jobs at 131 tech companies have already disappeared: that's almost as many as in all of 2025, when the total came to over 124,000 jobs at 272 companies.
The 22 French close contacts of the Dutch woman who died of the hantavirus have all been hospitalized for observation. The French Ministry of Health announced this on Wednesday.
Plans for a 91-story Trump Tower in Australia's Gold Coast have been scrapped just three months after it was announced.
According to the Kronen Zeitung, the arrested suspect for the Hipp (baby foods) poisonings and attempted extortion is a former manager of the company. He is said to be a father of three who reportedly leads a luxurious lifestyle.