Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images Venezuela's interim president has signed an agreement with US energy giant General Electric to rebuild the country's electricity grid.
Delcy Rodríguez, who was sworn in shortly after US forces seized Venezuela's leader, Nicolás Maduro, in January, announced the move at a televised event at the presidential palace on Monday.
The agreement is the latest sign that the interim leader - who was a fierce critic of
AFP via Getty Images France's oldest female detainee has gone on trial for murder at a court in Versailles, in a cold case centring on a dismembered body found 31 years ago.
Marie-Thérèse Garcia, 79, is charged with the kidnap and murder of her former sister-in-law Corinne Di Dio.
Di Dio went missing in June 1995 when she was 37. Days
Prime Minister of Israel's Office The breakaway state of Somaliland has opened an embassy in Jerusalem, six months after Israel became the first country to recognise it as an independent nation.
The opening of the diplomatic mission at a technology park in West Jerusalem came while Somaliland's President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi was on an official visit to Israel.
During a meeting with the president, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of "a deep spiritual bond between
BBC When President Donald Trump announced the US deal with Iran on Sunday and declared the "opening" of the Strait of Hormuz, his Truth Social post ended with the words "Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!"
BBC Verify analysis of MarineTraffic ship-tracking data, however, shows that just seven vessels appear to have passed through the critical waterway since the deal was announced and as many as 580 ships appear to be waiting in the Gulf.
Tehran effectively closed the Strait
Getty Images A 61-year-old Swedish man has been sentenced to four years and five months in prison for coercing his wife into providing sexual services to more than 120 men.
The court found he had controlled her through threats of violence and security cameras. He was convicted of offences including attempted rape, aggravated pimping, assault and unlawful threats following a trial in Härnösand, on Sweden's eastern coast.
Getty Images The FBI thwarted a plot targeting Sunday's UFC event on the South Lawn of the White House, and has taken multiple suspects into custody, according to the agency's head, Kash Patel.
Part of the plan involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.
One of the suspects, Tycen Proper, was arrested in Ohio last week, where investigators obtained access
NurPhoto via Getty Images The Hungarian parliament has backed a change to the constitution that limits a prime minister's term in office to eight years, fulfilling a promise by Péter Magyar to prevent Viktor Orbán becoming prime minister again.
Orbán led Hungary uninterrupted for16 years, until Magyar's Tisza party swept him from power in April's election, winning a two-
Getty Images The number of foreign travellers visiting Cuba has plummeted since the beginning of the year amid tightened US sanctions, figures released by Cuba's national statistics agency suggest.
Fewer than 360,000 people visited the Communist-run island in the first five months of 2026, a decrease of 58.4% compared to the same period last year, according to Onei.
The Trump administration
Facebook/Semyon Skrepetsky Police in Poland are investigating the execution-style murder of a Russian artist and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin.
Polish prosecutors said Robert K, known as the artist Semyon Skrepetsky, was shot dead on Monday morning in the Polish city of Biała Podlaska, about 40km (25 miles) from the Belarusian border.
The 44-year-old was shot five times in the head, chest and back in a