World

RTL Lëtzebuerg

RTL Lëtzebuerg

RTL Infos

World

News from around the world covering politics, society, and current affairs.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected Donald Trump's accusation that his country was 'confiscating' land

Pending an investigation

Trump accuses South Africa of 'confiscating' land, cuts funding

Polio can easily be prevented by the oral administration of a few drops of vaccine, but scores of vaccination workers and their escorts have been killed over the years

'Targeted attack'

Pakistan Taliban kill police polio escort as vaccination drive starts

Anna Adamova says that a social worker threatened to take away her fourth child if she declined sterilisation

'Ruined my life': Sterilised Czech Roma await compensation

Had fallen asleep

Luxembourg woman detained in Vienna after taxi dispute

Flemish nationalist party N-VA leader and Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever attends the presentation of the political agreement to form a new coalition to govern the city of Antwerp, on December 14, 2024.

Officially sworn in

Belgium moves to the right as new PM De Wever sworn in

Santorini welcomed 3.4 million visitors in 2023

Popular destination

Fresh tremors shake top Greek tourist island Santorini

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (l, SPD) is received by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his country residence in Chequers near London.

Morning Roundup

British PM Starmer attends EU summit, Beyonce wins Best Album, and cycling silver for Luxembourg

Rotherham in northern England became the epicentre of the UK grooming scandal over several decades

'Life's ruined': UK town broken by grooming gangs wants answers

There have been reports Trump wants to roll USAID into the State Department

Attacking US Agency

Musk brands USAID 'criminal', Trump calls its leaders 'radical lunatics'

From April 2025 onwards

EU travellers require electronic authorisation for UK entry

Washington has long accused Beijing of turning a blind eye to the deadly fentanyl trade, which US authorities estimate caused tens of thousands of deaths a year. China denies responsibility

'Turning a blind eye'

How China allegedly contributes to the deadly fentanyl crisis

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte before travelling for talks with the leaders of the 27 EU member states

Starmer to urge Europe to 'bear down' on Putin at landmark talks

Steven Nelson, 37, is to be executed in Texas by lethal injection for the 2011 murder of a pastor

Over a dozen years

'Breaks a little part of you every day': Texas man on Death Row

Rescuers were combing the ruins of a smouldering building in Poltava, central Ukraine, for survivors

Russia and Ukraine trade blame for attack on Kursk school

The protesters accused Germany's conservatives of having made a 'pact with the devil' by seeking far-right backing

Against collaboration with AfD

At least 160,000 rally in Berlin against far right

The US-Canada rift brought by Trump's tariffs threatens to divide inter-connected border communities

'Failing marriage': Canadian border cities dismayed by US trade rift

Marco Rubio (R) made his first trip as secretary of state to Panama

President Jose Raul Mulino

Rubio meets Panama leader on Trump demands for canal

A policeman shoots his parents before committing suicide himself

Trump has said he 'absolutely' plans to target the EU with tariffs

Will retaliate 'firmly'

EU vows firm response if Trump unleashes tariffs

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) speaks with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a bilateral meeting at Chequers

Ukraine on agenda

Starmer hails 'real progress' on UK-Germany ties at Scholz talks

Netanyahu has called it

Amidst fragile truce

Netanyahu heads to US for pivotal Trump talks

Excavators and rescue personnel working to construct a slope at the sinkhole site

Five households

Residents near Japan sinkhole urged to evacuate

A jubilant crowd greeted a busload of freed Palestinian prisoners in Ramallah on Saturday

Ongoing exchanges

Netanyahu to begin talks on 2nd phase of Gaza truce

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Panama and four other small Latin American countries for an agenda focused on migration

Rubio to make debut in Panama as Trump threatens to take canal

Mothers carry boxes of porridge backed by US aid in the Mutokoarea of Zimbabwe in 2019 as drought worsened hunger

Freezing foreign assistance

For world's poorest, fears for long-term setbacks after Trump aid cut

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is serving a third six-year term widely considered as illegitimate after flawed elections

'Mutual respect'

Has Trump changed tack on Venezuela?

A woman shows off her button and pin collection during the Democratic National Committee 2023 Winter meeting

Reconnecting with voters

US Democrats anoint new leader to take on Trump for 'working people'

Sudanese paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, seen here in 2023, vowed on Friday to push the regular army out of the capital Khartoum following its recent gains

At least 56 killed as fighting grips Sudan's capital

Back to Top

Subscribe to our newsletter

Do you want to advertise on today.lu? Contact our advertising agency IPLuxembourg directly

© 2026 RTL Luxembourg. All rights reserved.