World

Donald Trump promised retribution on the campaign trail and his nomination of ultra-loyalist Kash Patel to FBI director is a sure-fire sign that he plans to deliver on it. That bodes ill for a huge cast of characters, across the US’s top law enforcement agency and the Department of Justice, who have sought to investigate

The crowds came, weeping in the dark, to a bombsite and a shrine.  The crater was huge, with twisted rods of steel and mounds of earth and rubble on its side. This is where Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah was killed, in a massive Israeli airstrike, on 27 September. Those dirt mounds were

It had appeared to be a conflict frozen in time, but the operation launched with blistering speed by Syrian opposition fighters has turned all of that upside down. It is also a potent reminder of the complexity of the Syrian conflict. What was a stalemate has revealed that the regime of President Bashar al Assad

Violence has broken out again in Georgia’s capital after protesters took to the streets near parliament over the suspension of EU membership talks. Police used water cannon and pepper spray as thousands gathered in Tbilisi to demand the government change its stance. Some protesters hurled fireworks at police and pushed a burning industrial bin towards

As the world-famous Notre-Dame cathedral burned in a devastating 2019 fire, Parisians watched on in tears. Now, after more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, the world has been given a first glimpse inside the revived 12th-century landmark. Today, President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the site to see the restored interiors for himself before

At least 15 people have died and more than 100 are missing after landslides buried homes in several villages in eastern Uganda. Some 15 people have been rescued and taken to hospital, police said. At least 40 households were completely buried, the Uganda Red Cross Society said. It added that 13 bodies had been recovered.

Israel’s military has said it has fired on “suspects” in southern Lebanon who were allegedly violating its ceasefire with Hezbollah. Israeli tank fire hit six areas within two kilometres of a strip of land demarcating the border between Lebanon and Israel, according to state media and Lebanese security sources. It comes after Israel and the

NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost “city” buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War. Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site,

Germany is drawing up a list of bunkers for a new app to help civilians find emergency shelter amid increasing tensions with Russia. Residents are also being encouraged to turn garages and basements into bomb shelters as part of a new review of suitable locations. Underground car parks, train stations and government buildings could also

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has been agreed, to celebrations in Lebanon but scepticism in Israel. Lebanese people are finally looking forward to some calm after months of heavy bombardment in the capital Beirut and across the country. An estimated 1.2 million people have been displaced and many towns and villages heavily damaged. Middle

Three bodies have been recovered after a tourist boat sank in the Red Sea, a local official has said. Rescue teams had been “intensifying efforts” to find 16 people who were missing – and two British people are believed to be among them. Governor of the Red Sea region Amr Hanafi told Reuters news agency

Twelve British soldiers were injured in a major traffic pile-up in Estonia, close to the border with Russia, local media have reported. Eight of the troops – part of a major NATO mission to deter Russian aggression – were airlifted back to the UK for hospital treatment on Sunday after the incident, which happened in

At least one person was killed when a DHL cargo plane crashed into a house in Lithuania this morning.  One other person was taken to hospital after the aircraft smashed into a two-storey home near Vilnius Airport around 5.30am local time (3.30am UK time), Lithuania’s public broadcaster said. All of the residents in the house

Russian forces have reportedly captured a British man while he was fighting for Ukraine. In a widely circulated video posted on Sunday, the man says his name is James Scott Rhys Anderson, aged 22. He says he is a former British Army soldier who signed up to fight for Ukraine’s International Legion after his job.

The body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been found, Israel has said. Zvi Kogan, the Chabad representative in the UAE, went missing on Thursday. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s office on Sunday said the 28-year-old rabbi was murdered, calling it a “heinous antisemitic terror

A man in his 60s has had his leg amputated after becoming “wedged” between rocks while kayaking in Tasmania. The tourist, who had been kayaking with friends on the Australian island, was partially submerged in the Franklin River when he became stuck on Friday afternoon, police said. A distress call was made through a smartwatch