US, Ukrainian and European officials meet in Geneva for talks on peace plan
Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials gathered in Geneva on Sunday to discuss a draft plan presented by Washington to end the war in Ukraine, after Kyiv and its allies ...
Daily Mail owner strikes $650 million deal to buy the Telegraph
Daily Mail owner DMGT said on Saturday it had struck a 500 million pound ($650 million) deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the ...
More than 300 taken from Nigeria school in one of worst mass abductions
More than 300 children and staff are thought to have been abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria this week, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded there.
The Christian ...
World secures compromise deal at COP30 that sidesteps fossil fuels
World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any ...
Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police ahead of vigil
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appeals a ...
Lukashenko pardons 31 Ukrainians jailed in Belarus, state news agency reports
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 31 Ukrainian citizens convicted of criminal offences on the territory of Belarus, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday.
The move was made in ...
G20 summit in South Africa adopts declaration despite US boycott, opposition
A Group of 20 leaders’ summit in South Africa adopted a declaration addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges on Saturday after it was drafted without U.S. input in ...
COP30 heads into a final showdown
A fire late on Thursday near the East Africa pavilion at COP30 in Belem, Brazil forced mass evacuations from the climate summit, just as negotiations were reaching their end. A ‘...
MAGA favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after split with Trump
Saying she refused to be a “battered wife,” U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday she was resigning from the House of Representatives in the wake of a ...
Trump officials’ meeting with Russian in Miami spurs questions about latest Ukraine proposal
US officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a meeting last month in which representatives of the Trump administration met with Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian envoy who is under U....
Grizzly bear attack on school group leaves four seriously injured in British Columbia
A grizzly bear attacked a school group on a walking trail in British Columbia on Thursday, seriously injuring three children and one adult.
Officers were still searching for the animal ...
COP30 host urges unity as summit heads for final showdown over fossil fuels
The host of the COP30 conference in Brazil urged countries to unite for a deal to strengthen international climate efforts on Friday, as a showdown loomed in the summit’s ...
BBC board member Banerji resigns after Trump documentary edit
An independent director on the BBC’s board, Shumeet Banerji, has quit on Friday in the wake of what the public broadcaster said was an incorrect edit of a speech ...
Ukraine faces ‘difficult choice’ as Trump demands acceptance of peace plan
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Friday that Ukraine risked losing its dignity and freedom – or Washington’s backing – over a US peace plan that endorses key Russian demands, a proposal ...
Peru orders arrest of ex-prime minister under Mexico asylum in Lima
A Peruvian Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered the arrest and five-month preventive detention of former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez, who is currently under asylum at the Mexican embassy ...
Putin says US peace plan can be the basis for peace in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow had received the US proposals for peace in Ukraine and that the plan could be the basis of a peaceful resolution ...
EU leaders meet Saturday to discuss Ukraine peace, von der Leyen and Costa say
EU leaders will meet on Saturday in the margins of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg to discuss the situation in Ukraine, EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa ...
Turkish MPs to visit jailed PKK leader Ocalan in prison
Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group will visit its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, state broadcaster TRT Haber said ...
US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal
The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two ...
Food supply improving in Gaza since truce but long way to go, says UN
More food supplies are getting into Gaza since the October ceasefire but are still falling short of huge humanitarian needs as winter rains risk spoiling delivered foodstuffs, the U.N. ...
Two British teens plead not guilty to London transport cyberattack charges
Two teenagers pleaded not guilty on Friday to hacking charges over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport body, with one of them also denying charges related to two health ...
Death toll rises to 41 in central Vietnam flooding, more heavy rain forecast
The death toll from a new barrage of torrential rain, flooding and landslides in central Vietnam since the weekend has risen to 41, state media reported on Thursday, with water levels ...
Indian Tejas fighter jet crashes at Dubai Air Show, killing pilot (V)
An Indian Tejas fighter jet crashed in a ball of fire in front of horrified spectators during an aerial display at the Dubai Airshow on Friday, and the Indian Air ...
Brussels set to issue formal warning to Italy over ‘golden power’ rules
Brussels is set to issue a formal warning to Rome over concerns that Italy’s far-reaching “golden power” rules may breach European Union law, the Financial Times said on Friday, ...