Israel under pressure to respond to ceasefire proposal as strikes on Gaza continue

Mediator Qatar has stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal from Arab countries, but Israel ha...

Trump says US troops won't defend Ukraine and warns Kyiv NATO membership is 'impossible'

Trump said after his meeting in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Putin was open to the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine.

US Pre...

Officials win court case to remove migrants from UK hotel that's been focus of protests

Thousands of people have protested near the hotel in Epping after an asylum seeker living there was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

A hotel ...

Kyiv residents react to Zelenskyy-Trump talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine

Residents of Kyiv closely monitored meetings between Zelenskyy, Trump, and European leaders, as the US president hopes for talks with Putin to end the war in Ukra...

Iraq says tip-off to Lebanon led to destruction of amphetamine factory

Western governments estimate that Captagon has generated billions of euros in revenue for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his associates and allies.

One...

Finnish MP Eemeli Peltonen found dead in Helsinki parliament in apparent suicide

Finland's parliament is currently in summer recess but Prime Minister Petteri Orpo suspended all political work on Tuesday as a mark of respect.

Finnish politici...

New Zealand soldier admits attempted espionage in country's first such conviction

The soldier came to law enforcement attention as part of an operation after a 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, when a white supremacist opene...

Suspect in car-ramming attack on German Christmas market charged with murder

The suspect is charged with six counts of murder, 338 counts of attempted murder and 309 counts of bodily harm.

The suspect in a fatal car-ramming attack on a Ch...

Spain battles record fires despite end of heatwave bringing cooler temperature

The Spanish government will declare the areas affected by the deadly wildfires that have ravaged much of its northern Galicia province as disaster zones.

The Spa...

Bolivia's presidential frontrunner has 'phone stolen' while celebrating first-round win

Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz is up against conservative ex-President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga in a runoff on 19 October to determine Bolivia's next leader.

The surpr...

Search under way for 150 people missing after devastating flooding in Pakistan

A changing climate has made residents of northern Pakistan's river-carved mountainous areas more vulnerable to sudden, heavy rains.

People in Pakistan searched r...

Russians opposing the regime face uncertainty as Germany halts humanitarian visas

Alexey Moskalyov and his daughter Masha Moskalyova fled Russia after he was imprisoned for discrediting the army. Germany rejected their humanitarian visa, leavin...

Ship with hundreds of tonnes of food aid for Gaza nears Israeli port after leaving Cyprus

Cyprus was the staging area last year for 22,000 tonnes of aid deliveries by ship directly to Gaza through a pier operated by the international charity World Cent...

Dressed for diplomacy: Zelenskyy's new style wins praise in meeting with Trump

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was complimented by US President Donald Trump for his outfit in their Oval Office meeting on Monday.

When Ukrainian Presi...

Israel set to approve 'largest' gas supply deal in its history to Egypt

After two years of delays, the Israeli government is expected to finalise the deal with Egypt in the next two weeks, involving exports from Leviathan, Israel's la...

South Korea-US drills trigger Kim Jong-un to pledge nuclear force expansion

Pyongyang has long denounced the allies’ joint drills as invasion rehearsals and Kim has often used them to justify his own military displays and testing activiti...

Historic Swedish church transported on trailers to avoid being swallowed by mine

A convoy of trailers is transporting the 113-year-old Kiruna Church to a new home to make way for the expansion of a large underground iron ore mine.

A landmark ...

Norwegian prosecutors indict son of crown princess Mette-Marit on 32 counts including rape

The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess was charged with 32 counts, including at least four counts of rape, following a lengthy investigation which could see hi...

Trump tells Zelenskyy US will be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine

Just a handful of days after his summit with Vladimir Putin, the US president told Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine would receive substantial security guarantees ...

Russia cannot seize all of Donetsk region unless Ukraine withdraws from it, ISW says

The Russian president allegedly told Donald Trump that he wants all of Ukraine’s Donbas region as part of any deal to put an end to the war. More than 10 years in...

US envoy to discuss ceasefire with Israel after Lebanon commits to disarming Hezbollah

US special envoy to Lebanon Tom Barrack said his team would discuss a long-term stop to fighting with Israel after Beirut endorsed a US-backed plan for Hezbollah ...