68 m. ago Trump hints at ‘something good’ after Ukraine peace talks as EU says ‘work remains’ – Europe live

EU leaders hail progress but emphasise remaining issues to be solved as Merz says peace ‘won’t happen overnight’US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original planRussian air defences downed a Ukrainian drone en route to Moscow on Monday, the city’s mayor said as reported by Reuters, forcing three airports that serve the capital to temporarily restrict all incoming and outgoing flights.Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement that emergency services were working at the scene of the downed drone. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Relatives of disappeared brace themselves as bodies are exhumed from notorious mass grave in Colombia

Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighbourhood saw extraordinary violence in the 2000s, with hundreds of people detained, tortured or killedWhen Operation Orión began in October 2002, Hermey Mejía thought the violence that had ravaged his corner of Medellín for decades would finally come to an end.The 22-year-old told his mother, Teresa Gómez, that he hoped Colombia’s armed forces would get rid of the urban guerrillas who ruled the streets of Comuna 13, then one of the most dangerous districts in the world. The area, of strategic importance for drugs and weapons trafficking, had long been trapped in a cycle of bloodshed: first under Pablo Escobar’s narcos, then, after their fall, leftwing militias. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Spain’s attorney general quits after guilty verdict for leaking confidential information

Blow to leftist coalition government of PM Pedro Sánchez, who appointed Álvaro García Ortiz in 2022Spain’s chief prosecutor has announced his resignation after the supreme court found him guilty last week of leaking confidential information in a case involving a leading opposition figure’s partner.The unprecedented case is a blow to the leftist coalition government of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who appointed Álvaro García Ortiz in 2022 and has defended his innocence repeatedly. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago PDC World Darts Championship draw: How to watch for free as Luke Littler learns opponent

The draw for the 2025/26 PDC World Darts Championship takes place today, with defending champion Luke Littler set to learn his fate ahead of the tournament

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12 h. ago Residents stunned after landlord starts building luxury penthouses on TOP of their flats

Sarah* went to bed in her spacious, bright and well-kept top floor apartment in leafy West London and woke up to find scaffolding outside her window.

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13 h. ago London Tops Again: See Which Indian City Makes The World’s Top 30 In 2025

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15 h. ago US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro

US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peace The US and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia, hours after European countries proposed their own radical alternative that omitted some of the pro-Russia points made in an original US-backed document that was leaked last week.The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, emerged from a meeting in Switzerland late on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, saying he was “very optimistic” about the progress of the talks. A joint statement between the two countries said that any eventual deal would “fully uphold” Ukraine’s sovereignty. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago European countries propose radically different Ukraine peace plan from Trump’s version

New proposals drawn up at summit in Switzerland omit some of the pro-Russia points in US documentEuropean countries on Sunday proposed a radical alternative Ukraine peace plan, which rejects some of the pro-Russian points made in the original US-backed document, and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.The counter-proposal emerged as American, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland. The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hands over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago European countries propose radically different Ukraine peace plan to US

Document omits some of Washington’s pro-Russia points and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respectedEuropean countries proposed a radical alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland. The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Fifty pupils escape after mass kidnapping in Nigeria, bishop says

Christian Association of Nigeria says students reunited with parents but 253 children and 12 staff still with kidnappersFifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday.The pupils escaped between Friday and Saturday and have since been reunited with their parents, CAN’s chair, Bulus Yohanna, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Trump says Ukraine has ‘zero gratitude’ for peace plan amid international talks

US president appears to roll back from demand Zelenskyy sign by Thursday amid claims Russia authored the textDonald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukraine had shown no gratitude for US efforts to end the war, as American, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland to discuss the “peace plan” that would involve significant concessions to Moscow from Kyiv.Poland’s president, Donald Tusk, asked where Trump’s “peace plan” came from, after an apparent admission by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that the text was originally drafted by Moscow. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Cyril Ramaphosa bangs gavel to close G20 summit after US handover row

South Africa rejects proposal from US, which hosts next summit, for president to hand over to embassy officialSouth Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row

South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior officialSouth Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white-minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Trump blasts Ukraine for ‘zero gratitude’ as Germany says deal to end war unlikely to be reached by Thursday deadline – live

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says ‘we are still a long way from that’ as Trump blasts Ukrainian leadership on social mediaThe Ukrainian delegation has held talks with European security officials in Geneva, according to the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Andriy Yermak.“Overall, a series of meetings in various formats is planned for today. We continue working together to achieve a lasting and just peace for Ukraine,” Yermak wrote in a post on X. “The next meeting is with the US delegation. We are in a very constructive mood.” Continue reading...

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23 h. ago ‘Stranded’: Palestinians who were in Israel on 7 October 2023 are suspended between exile and war

Unable to reunite with their families in Gaza due to the closed border, Palestinian workers have spent two years in a refugee camp at Nablus stadiumInside a dim locker room at the Nablus municipal stadium, in the occupied West Bank, the television rarely goes dark, streaming day and night the relentless news from Gaza. Gathered in front of it are a group of men from Khan Younis. For more than two years, they have lived in this stadium converted into a refugee camp, their lives suspended between exile and the war they watched on a screen.They are mostly construction workers who were in Israel on the morning of 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched its attack. As Israel rounded up Palestinians from Gaza, they fled to the West Bank, where they remain – cut off from wives and children living in makeshift tents inside the strip. With very few exceptions, civilians are not currently allowed in or out of Gaza. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago French winemakers ‘battle for survival’ as minister prepares for crisis talks

Vineyard owners say sales slump, Trump tariffs and worst harvest in 70 years have put producers in danger of closureFrench winemakers are often accused of viewing the glass as half empty. Dire warnings about the state of the sector – one of the three pillars of the country’s economy – are a hardy perennial blamed on everything from geopolitics to a drop in the number of drinkers.Before a crisis meeting with the agriculture minister on Monday, vineyard owners say an unprecedented series of setbacks, including some of the worst harvests in 70 years, has left many of them on their last legs. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Polish PM says it would be ‘good to know’ who wrote plan to end war in Ukraine, amid concerns over Moscow involvement – live

Zelenskyy says ‘we must do everything’ against ‘wicked Russian attacks’ as Ukraine and US meet for emergency talksThere have been lots of conflicting reports about who wrote the 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, which is widely seen to favour Russia as it endorses some of Moscow’s key maximalist positions.A group of US senators say they were told by Marco Rubio that the plan is in fact not an American proposal and did not reflect Washington’s official position, claims heavily disputed by the US state department. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Gaza hospitals are running out of essential supplies, medical workers say

‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent daysHospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.Medics told the Guardian on Sunday that stocks of gauze, antiseptics, thermometers and antibiotics were running low. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say

‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent daysHospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.Medics told the Guardian on Sunday that stocks of gauze, antiseptics, thermometers and antibiotics were running low. Continue reading...

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