World

RTL Lëtzebuerg

RTL Lëtzebuerg

RTL Infos

World

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

Fire swept through the Grand Kartal Hotel in the northern mountain resort of Kartalkaya on January 21, killing 78 people and injuring 137

January tragedy

Turkish court jails 11 for life over deadly hotel inferno

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she raised concerns about the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang in a

Candid first meeting

Japan PM says raised 'serious concerns' with Xi on South China Sea, Xinjiang

Chinese defence minister Dong Jun told his US counterpart Pete Hegseth that the two countries should build trust, but also cautioned Washington over Taiwan

In order to co-exist

Chinese defence minister seeks 'trust' with US but cautions over Taiwan

The border between the two countries has been closed for more than two weeks

Following failed negotiations

Pakistan, Afghanistan extend ceasefire, to hold another round of peace talks

Members of public walk near the entrance to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park

Monarchy under scrutiny

UK welcomes king's move to strip Andrew of royal titles

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Canada's premier Mark Carney, a first since 2017 for the two nations' heads

Busan, South Korea

Xi invites Canada PM to China in first meet in 8 years

Trump and Kim last met in 2019

Hoped for impromptu talk

Why emboldened Kim had little need for photo-op with Trump

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg regulates nicotine pouches, US plans to resume nuclear testing, and Prince Andrew stripped of royal titles

A mass demonstration in Jerusalem follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers

Exemption long-running point of contention

'Better to go to prison': Israeli ultra-Orthodox rally against army service

The first group of white Afrikaners to arrive in the United States for resettlement pose for photographers at Dulles Airport in Virginia

US to limit refugees to record low 7,500, mostly white South Africans

Placed on US Treasury's OFAC sanctions list

US sanctions cause plane refueling woes for Colombian leader

The war in Sudan has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and triggered the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis

'Catastrophic levels of human suffering'

UN warns of 'atrocities,' 'horror' in Sudan as RSF advances

In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional military administration chief said two people were killed and 23 were wounded

Captured two villages

Russia batters Ukraine energy sites with deadly aerial strikes

High number of goods sold on Temu and Shein don't conform to EU standards

Neo-Nazis were blamed for the violence at the Charlotteville riots in 2017

Accused of beating up immigrants

Swedish hate-crime trial shines light on far-right 'fitness clubs'

Visitors watch a video of a nuclear bomb test at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNH) in Moscow in December, 2023

Experts and governments baffled

Trump call for nuclear tests sows confusion

Jetten and Wilders are neck and neck

Provisional estimates

Netherlands nailbiter as far-right, centrists in election dead-heat

Albert Luthuli, pictured here with his wife, led the African National Congress from 1952 until his death

Overturning previous finding

S.Africa court rules ANC leader Luthuli was killed in apartheid 'assault'

US President Donald Trump made the announcement aboard Air Force One as he returned to the United States from Asia

Following China and Russia

Trump orders US to start nuclear weapons testing

Hurricane Melissa's furious winds ripped the roofs off many homes across Jamaica

No power and many without roofs

'Nowhere to sleep': Melissa upends life for Jamaicans

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Gerald Darmanin in 2022

57% of French people disapproved of the visit

French justice minister visits jailed former president Sarkozy

Prosecutors read out charges for Darcy Jenson, 37, Paea-I-Middlemore Tupou, 37, and Coskun Mevlut, 23, over the shooting of 32-year-old Australian national Zivan Radmanovic in June

Facing death penalty

Bali trial begins for 3 accused of Australian's murder

A heavily damaged building in Zaporizhzhia after Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine

Wounded 17 people

Russia hits Ukraine energy sites, killing one, wounding children

Spearheaded by California Governor Gavin Newsom, 'Proposition 50' asks voters in the state to return to partisan redistricting for the next five years

Can protect fair elections

'Fight fire with fire': California mulls skewing electoral map

Hassan has remained silent on the unrest

Turned into violent chaos

Tanzania blackout after election chaos, deaths feared

Morning Roundup

Bettel faces parliamentary criticism, Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea, and Luxembourg Song Contest selects finalists

Ukrainians fear what could happen if Russia captures the northeastern city of Kupiansk again

As Russia advances on Kupiansk, Ukrainians fear second occupation

UN chief Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to military escalation in Sudan

Yale research reports mass killing

UN calls for end to Sudan siege after mass hospital killings

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.