Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked mass housing protests in Spain that ultimately led ​to an early election, has died, Madrid’s tenants’ union said on Wednesday, ‌provoking an outpouring of grief and anger on the streets of the capital.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that “strong and model NATO ally” Greece and the United States are launching new counterterrorism information sharing between their law enforcement agencies.

Hundreds of students, inspired in part by student unrest in neighbouring France, have taken to ​the streets of the eastern Belgian city of Liège, with local media reporting 107 arrests in recent days.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas ‌Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are expected to face new criminal charges in the US over the alleged torture of ​Americans held in the South American country, a ​US official said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump, who waged war with Iran and has yet to broker peace in Ukraine, said that he should win the Nobel Peace Prize but acknowledged ‌doubt about his chances.

Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by this year’s war with ​Israel.

Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize ​in Chemistry on Wednesday for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric “mirror image” molecules, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction ​in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.

Israelis will on Wednesday mark three years since Hamas attacked Israel on ​October 7, 2023, triggering a military assault that destroyed much of Gaza, where conditions remain dire despite a year-old ceasefire that is ‌meant to halt the war for good.

North Korea criticised the United States over its arms sales and ​military support for Taiwan, accusing Washington of fuelling tensions in the Taiwan Strait, state media KCNA said on Wednesday.

Cornell University has hired a top former US Justice Department lawyer for an internal investigation of how it handled a student’s allegations that she was gang-raped, ​a case that has brought mounting scrutiny and triggered student protests at the ‌Ivy League school.

The crew of a merchant ship was missing on Tuesday after the vessel sank in the Black Sea off NATO ​member Bulgaria following a drone strike that Prime Minister Rumen Radev described as a gross violation of international law.