Iran will meet next week with Britain, France and Germany on its nuclear programme, the parties said yesterday, as the European powers warned Tehran to engage swiftly to avoid snapback sanctions.

Russia yesterday ruled out an immediate meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, as diplomatic tension escalated with the Ukrainian president and US mediation efforts appeared to stumble.

The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza yesterday, blaming “systematic obstruction” of aid by Israel during more than 22 months of war, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly dismissing the findings.

FBI agents searched the home of John Bolton, a former adviser to US President Donald Trump turned persistent critic, on Friday in what a source familiar with the matter said was part of a national security probe.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow on Thursday of shirking a meeting between him and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, despite US-led attempts to arrange a summit to end the war

Kyiv rejected those terms as tantamount to surrender.

In a triumph for Donald Trump, a New York state appeals court yesterday threw out a half-billion-dollar penalty while preserving a fraud case against him, enabling the US president to rebound from one of his biggest legal defeats.

Google will provide its Gemini artificial intelligence tools to US federal agencies practically free, the government announced Thursday

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo’s main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, police and organisers said.

Uganda has agreed to receive migrants who do not qualify to remain in the United States, a foreign ministry official said Thursday, in Washington’s latest attempt to speed up deportations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he could meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but only after his allies agree security guarantees for Ukraine to deter future Russian attacks once the fighting stops.

Egypt yesterday unveiled parts of a sunken city submerged beneath waters off the coast of Alexandria, revealing buildings, artefacts and an ancient dock, all dating back over 2,000 years.

Israel hammered Gaza City and its outskirts overnight, residents said yesterday, as the military announced it had taken initial steps in its push to capture Hamas’s last major stronghold.

Sweden will host a Nato logistics headquarters in the town of Enkoping, northwest of Stockholm, to support troop movements in Northern Europe, the government said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump is deploying three warships off the coast of Venezuela as part of efforts to curb drug trafficking, a source familiar with the move said Wednesday.

A Ukrainian suspect has been arrested in Italy over the sabotage of the Nord Stream underwater gas pipelines from Russia to Europe in 2022, German prosecutors said yesterday.

India and Russia agreed to boost trade ties yesterday as their foreign ministers met in Moscow, giving little indication that US President Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs on India for buying Russian oil would disrupt their relations.

The world’s oldest person, British woman Ethel Caterham, turned 116 yesterday, months after the title passed to her following the death of Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas.

Soaring numbers of tourists and expanding research projects are increasingly polluting Antarctica, scientists warned Wednesday, a fresh blow for one of Earth’s most pristine environments already threatened by human-driven climate change.