EU weighs concession to Russian bank over Black Sea grain deal
The European Union is considering a proposal for Russian Agricultural Bank to set up a subsidiary to reconnect to the global financial network as a sop to Moscow, the Financial ...
Shot teenager’s grandmother urges end to French riots
The grandmother of the boy killed by police during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on Sunday said she wanted the nationwide rioting triggered by his death to end, ...
Prigozhin-controlled Russian media group shuts amid mutiny fallout
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s media holding group is to shut down, the director of one of its outlets said, highlighting the mercenary chief’s worsening fortunes a week after the collapse ...
Germany’s Scholz watching France unrest with concern
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Germany was watching the unrest in France “with concern”.
French President Emmanuel Macron postponed a state visit to Germany that was set to ...
Poland to send 500 police to bolster security at Belarus border
Poland said on Sunday it will send 500 police to shore up security at its border with Belarus to cope with rising numbers of migrants crossing as well as any potential ...
Mix of calm and concern as cycling’s Tour heads into riot-hit France
By Julien Pretot
While the vast majority of the Tour de France peloton is not concerned by the riots that have been hitting the country following the fatal shooting of ...
Baltimore police say two dead, 28 injured after mass shooting at housing block
By Shivani Tanna and Jahnavi Nidumolu
Police in the U.S. city of Baltimore said that two people had died and 28 others were injured in a mass shooting early on ...
Russia launches first overnight drone attack on Kyiv in 12 days
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region after a 12-day break, with air defence systems destroying all the weapons on their approach, Ukrainian military officials ...
Sporadic violence, but calmer night in France after family buries teenager (updated)
Rioting across France was less intense overnight, as tens of thousands of police were deployed in cities across the country after the funeral of a teenager, whose shooting by police ...
Philippines gets $1 billion ADB loan for electric bus programme
The Asian Development Bank approved on Thursday a $1 billion loan to help one of Philippines’ largest cities procure a fleet of more than 1,000 electric buses, in an important step towards ...
CIA chief: armed mutiny shows damage Putin has done to Russia
US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had shown the corrosive effect on Russia of President Vladimir Putin’...
King apologises for Netherlands’ historic role in slavery
Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Saturday apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.
The king was speaking at a ceremony marking the 160...
Zelenskiy says ‘serious threat’ remains at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Saturday that a “serious threat” remained at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and said Russia was “technically ready” to provoke a localized explosion ...
France’s Macron halts trip over riots, as family buries teenager
More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting and President Emmanuel Macron cancelled a trip to Germany on Saturday as the funeral took place of ...
Bitter resignation of UK minister underlines Tory divide
British international Environment Secretary Zac Goldsmith resigned on Friday, saying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was “uninterested” in environmental issues, in a move highlighting the deep split in the ruling Conservative ...
Belarus leader says nuclear arms will not be used
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Kremlin’s staunchest ally in its war in Ukraine, said on Friday he was certain Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployed in his country would never ...
Indonesia’s Java escapes 6.4 magnitude quake with few casualties
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, injuring at least 10 people, while one person died of suspected heart attack during the quake, the country’...
Ukraine, US agree: counteroffensive creeps ahead, measured in blood
Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in a counteroffensive it launched this month to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces, and on Friday its president and a U....
Japan says Russian warships spotted near Taiwan, Okinawa islands
Japan’s defence ministry said late on Friday it had spotted two Russian Navy ships in the waters near Taiwan and Japan’s Okinawa islands in the previous four days, ...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope set for launch to explore ‘dark universe’
A SpaceX rocket in Florida stood poised for launch on Saturday carrying an orbital telescope built to shed light on mysterious cosmic phenomena known as dark energy and dark matter, ...
Twitter now requires users to sign up to view tweets
Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure”.
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Georgia ban on transgender healthcare is challenged in lawsuit
Four Georgia families sued the state in federal court on Friday to stop a law that bans transgender youth from receiving hormone therapy, joining a wave of challenges to similar ...
Britain’s Harry seeking up to $560,000 in phone-hacking lawsuit – court documents
Prince Harry is seeking damages of around 440,000 pounds ($560,000) from Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), court documents released on Friday revealed as the trial of the royal’s phone-hacking lawsuit ...
US Supreme Court deals blow to LGBT rights in web designer case
In a blow to LGBT rights, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to ...