China is set to lift restrictions which it had imposed on a group of British lawmakers, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday, meaning that they will now be free to travel to China. Starmer made the announcement during his four-day visit to China, the first by a UK leader in eight years, aime
European Union countries on Monday gave their final approval to ban Russian gas imports by late 2027, making their vow to cut ties with their former top supplier legally binding, nearly four years after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ministers from EU countries approved the law at a meet
At least 15 bodies were recovered, and 28 people remained missing after an inter-island ferry carrying at least 350 people sank early Monday morning in waters off Basilan province in the southern Philippines, authorities said. Romel Dua, a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) commander, said at least 316
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Friday she had agreed with NATO chief Mark Rutte that the alliance needs to boost security in the Arctic following weeks of turmoil over US President Donald Trump's threat to annex Greenland. The governments of Denmark and Greenland, a Danish auto
A train driver has been killed and at least 37 people injured, after a commuter train derailed and crashed near Barcelona, just days after a deadly two-train collision in southern Spain on Sunday. According to local officials, on Tuesday evening, the Rodalies train collided with a retaining wall,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Greenland was not "a natural part" of Denmark and that the problem of former colonial territories was becoming more acute. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants full U.S. control of Greenland, an autonomous territory
Lebanon 's government on Friday signed a deal with an international consortium to explore gas in an offshore area bordering Israel. The deal for exploration at the so-called Block 8 off the coast of southern Lebanon comes after Lebanon and Israel signed a 2022 agreement over their maritime border.
Russia attacked two seaports in Ukraine's Odesa region on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring eight others, Ukrainian officials said. Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine's ports and foreign-flagged vessels sailing from them in recent weeks, after President Vladimir Putin vowed to cut Ukr
US and Ukrainian negotiators will revisit the thorny issues of territory and the fate of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, the most problematic points in peace talks to end Russia's war. Kyiv is under US pressure to secure peace in the
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that he planned to replace the head of the country's SBU security service, Vasyl Maliuk, as part of a wider reshuffle that has also seen a new presidential chief of staff. Maliuk was appointed SBU chief in Feb 2023, having already served as act
Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died in the bar fire on New Year's Eve that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope passed on his sympathies to the victims and their families. Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who
As he approached Le Constellation bar to celebrate the New Year in a snowy Swiss ski resort bright with Christmas lights, Dominic Dubois saw flames engulfing the building. "You could see the orange, the orange, yellow, red," Dubois told Reuters, describing chaotic scenes as bystanders and emergenc
Around 40 people have been killed and 100 injured, most of them seriously, after an explosion tore through a crowded bar during a New Year's Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana, Swiss officials said on Thursday. A fire broke out at 1.30 am (0030 GMT) in a bar called "Le Constellat
