The palace said she had been hospitalized since 2019 due to several illnesses and developed a bloodstream infection on October 17 before passing away late on Friday.

Treasury accuses Gustavo Petro of ‘allowing drug cartels to flourish’ as president attacks Trump’s ‘oppressive regime’

The US treasury department has announced sanctions on Colombian president Gustavo Petro, one of Donald Trump’s harshest international critics.

“President Petro has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity,” treasury secretary Scott Bessent wrote in a post on X. “Today President Trump is taking strong action to protect our nation.”

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Prime minister Charnvirakul cancels trip to Asean summit in Malaysia after news of the Queen Mother’s death

Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau has announced.

The palace said she had been hospitalised since 2019 due to several illnesses and developed a bloodstream infection on 17bOctober before passing away late on Friday.

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New regulation will allow US authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at any point of departure

The US will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday.

A new regulation will allow US border authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at airports, seaports, land crossings and any other point of departure, expanding on an earlier pilot program. Under the regulation, set to take effect on 26 December, US authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, the document said.

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Tariffs continue to weigh on Ford, but relief is on the horizon for US automakers.

Zhao, one of the most powerful people in the crypto world, had to step down as chief of Binance when the company agreed to a $4.3 billion settlement with the US government to end a years-long probe.

Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

A Russian court freed a French cyclist on Thursday after finding him guilty of illegally crossing the Russian border, state news agency RIA reported.

(Reuters) - STMicroelectronics a déclaré jeudi anticiper un chiffre d'affaires net de 3,28 milliards de dollars (2,81 milliards d'euros) au quatrième trimestre, un objectif en-dessous des attentes du marché. Les analystes tablaient sur un chiffre d'affaires de 3,34 milliards de dollars au quatrième trimestre, selon les données LSEG. "La dynamique des ventes est inférieure aux attentes", écrivent les analystes de Jefferies dans une note.

(Reuters) - Airbus, Leonardo et Thales ont dévoilé jeudi un accord préliminaire pour joindre leurs forces en matière de satellites après des mois de négociations et contrer leurs rivaux, à commencer par Starlink d'Elon Musk. Les plus grands groupes de l'industrie spatiale européenne ont annoncé jeudi la signature d'un protocole d’accord (MoU) en vue de créer un groupe de satellites européens qui pourrait être opérationnel en 2027. Il s'agit du rapprochement le plus ambitieux entre des acteurs européens du secteur depuis la création du fabricant de missiles MBDA en 2001.

(Reuters) - Dassault Systèmes chute en Bourse jeudi après avoir abaissé ses prévisions de chiffre d’affaires annuel à une fourchette de 4 à 6%, contre 6 à 8% précédemment, citant la trajectoire de croissance à l’issue des neuf premiers mois de l’année. Le fabricant français de logiciels, qui a néanmoins confirmé sa prévision annuelle de croissance du BNPA dilué non-IFRS, a fait état d'un chiffre d'affaires total en hausse de 5% à 1,46 milliard d’euros au troisième trimestre. Vers 07h44 GMT, le titre Dassault Systèmes chute de 14,58% à 25,73 euros, se retrouvant en bas de l’indice européen STOXX 600, tandis que le CAC 40 est en hausse de 0,51% au même moment.

PARIS (Reuters) - Le groupe aérospatial Thales a réaffirmé jeudi ses objectifs financiers annuels, faisant état de ventes et de nouvelles commandes supérieures aux attentes pour les neuf premiers mois de l'année, stimulés par les dépenses militaires et la demande en matière d'avionique. Le premier groupe européen d'électronique de défense a annoncé une hausse organique de son chiffre d'affaires de 9,1%, à 15,26 milliards d'euros sur les neuf premiers mois de son exercice. Sa plus grande division, celle dédiée à la défense, a enregistré une croissance organique de 14% sur cette période.

(Reuters) - Orange a relevé jeudi l'objectif pour 2025 de son indicateur clé d'EBITDAaL, l'opérateur de télécommunications faisant état d'un chiffre d'affaires légèrement au-dessus des attentes au troisième trimestre. Orange table désormais sur un EBITDAaL en croissance de 3,5%, contre une croissance supérieure à 3% prévue auparavant. Le chiffre d'affaires sur le troisième trimestre a atteint 9,99 milliards d'euros tandis que les analystes tablaient en moyenne sur 9,96 milliards d'euros, selon un consensus fourni par le groupe.

Plan would include everything from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictions

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The Trump administration is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictions, according to a US official and three people briefed by US authorities.

While the plan is not the only option on the table, it would make good on Donald Trump’s threat earlier this month to bar “critical software” exports to China by restricting global shipments of items that contain US software or were produced using US software.

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BRUXELLES (Reuters) -Une plainte contre Apple a été déposée mercredi par deux groupes de défense des droits civils auprès des autorités de la concurrence de l'Union européenne concernant les conditions d'utilisation de l'App Store et des appareils de la firme américaine, accusée d'enfreindre la réglementation européenne sur les activités des géants du numérique. La plainte conjointe, déposée par l'association britannique Article 19 et l'ONG allemande Société pour les libertés civiles et été partagée auprès de Reuters avant sa publication, pourrait constituer un nouveau dossier épineux pour Apple, qui s'est déjà vu infliger en avril dernier une amende de 500 millions d'euros pour avoir enfreint les règles sur les marchés numériques. Apple, qui a assuré par le passé que ses conditions d'utilisation étaient conformes aux standards de base pour la protection des consommateurs et développeurs, a rejeté la teneur de la plainte et blâmé la Commission européenne.

Roberto Mosquera del Peral was sent to African country as part of Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

A Cuban man deported by the Trump administration to the southern African country of Eswatini has started a hunger strike against his detention there, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

Roberto Mosquera del Peral was among five third-country nationals deported from the US to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, in July.

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• López hat-trick and Rashford double sink Olympiakos

• Bayer Leverkusen 2-7 PSG; PSV 6-2 Napoli

A Fermin López hat-trick and two goals from Marcus Rashford powered Barcelona to a commanding 6-1 Champions League victory against Olympiakos, while Ousmane Dembélé scored on his return to the Paris Saint-Germain side as they won 7-2 away against Bayer Leverkusen in a battle of two 10-man teams.

The match got off to a flying start when the 22-year-old López opened the scoring from a rebound in the seventh minute and he doubled his tally in the 39th, finishing off a lightning-quick counterattack.

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• Courtois: ‘La Liga does whatever it wants because it suits them’

• Protests from players have been ignored in official broadcasts

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has launched a scathing attack on La Liga, criticising the league’s decision to stage Barcelona’s away match against Villarreal in Miami on 20 December, saying it “distorts the competition”.

The fixture, which is set to take place at the Hard Rock Stadium, would be the first La Liga fixture held outside Spain and the first European league match staged abroad. While Uefa has “reluctantly” approved the plan, Real Madrid and other teams in Spain’s top flight have expressed their opposition.

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• Team from a town with a population of under 1,400

• Jacob Bergström and Tom Pettersson score in 2-0 win

Mjällby scored twice in the first half to secure a 2-0 victory at IFK Gothenburg and claim a sensational first Allsvenskan league title for the unfancied club from a tiny fishing village in the south of the country.

Jacob Bergström scored with a close-range bicycle kick in the 21st minute and Tom Pettersson poked home a second goal seven minutes later as their side took an unassailable 11-point lead over second-placed Hammarby with three games left to play.

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Top transport safety regulator to determine if self-driving vehicles failed to follow traffic laws for stopped buses

The US’s main transportation safety regulator said on Monday it had opened a preliminary investigation into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety laws around stopped school buses.

The investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the latest federal review of self-driving systems as regulators scrutinize how driverless technologies interact with pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.

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