International from Wednesday, May 14th, 2025

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home, were ruled eligible for parole by a Los Angeles judge at a re-sentencing hearing on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump has met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia ahead of meetings with the Gulf Cooperation Council, according to a Washington Post pool report, after a surprise US announcement it would lift all sanctions on the country.