A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections. The member states were supposed to give final approval to the bill on Monday following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional …

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, died Friday at his home in Key West, Florida, after being in hospice care for two …

The Menendez brothers’ killings of their parents dominated headlines in the early ’90s — but did the media get the story wrong? As new evidence comes to light, attorney Mark Geragos believes so. “Everything you think you know about the Menendez case, you really don’t,” Geragos said in the new Fox Nation special, “Menendez Brothers: Victims or Villains.” The four-part …

Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday. The bill will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 15- and 16-year-olds. It was slightly watered down from a …

Two Polish military engineers died on Monday following the detonation of TNT during a training exercise at a military facility in southern Poland, the defense minister said. SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN 2022 IRELAND GAS STATION EXPLOSION THAT KILLED 10 Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that two sappers with a chemical regiment died in Solarnia in the southern region of Silesia. A …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a tank exercise and encouraged his armored forces to sharpen war preparations in the face of growing tensions with South Korea, the North’s state media said Monday. Kim made those comments Sunday while visiting his top tank group, the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division. The unit’s name marks how it …

The Philippines lodged its “strongest protest” against Beijing on Monday and summoned a senior Chinese diplomat over a water cannon assault by the Chinese coast guard that injured Filipino navy crew members and heavily damaged their boat in the disputed South China Sea, officials said. Two Chinese coast guard ships hit a Philippine navy-operated supply boat with water cannons Saturday …

An Iraqi police officer previously sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent security analyst who had criticized powerful Iran-backed militias was released from prison following a retrial, officials said Monday. An intelligence official with the Ministry of Interior said Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani was released after the case was reopened and the court issued an acquittal. It was not …

Following what many deemed a disastrous job co-hosting the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, Anne Hathaway was subjected to online vitriol and constant mockery. Two years later, she was back at the Academy Awards, accepting her first Oscar for her performance in “Les Misérables.” But even with that accreditation, Hathaway says a negative online presence loomed. “A lot of people …

The most important thing to remember when flying a helicopter is to always be aware of your surroundings. It is a lesson I learned while flying over 2,500 combat missions in Vietnam, evacuating more than 5,000 wounded soldiers. And it is a lesson that has been made clear to me again when noticing who I am no longer surrounded by. …