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Australian MP has both legs amputated after attack
Police arrested and charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local resident from the nearby rural locality of Tarrawingee within Haines’ own electorate.
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EU turns to Canada and Britain to plug Ukraine’s funding gap
Brussels wants Ottawa and London to put up more money for Kyiv next year, with ambassadors preparing the ground on October 22.
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UK deploys fighter jets to Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes escalate
Defence secretary Wes Streeting described the Houthi campaign against Saudi Arabia as “absolutely despicable and dangerous for the region”.
Alberta votes to stay in Canada as independence push fails
About three in four voters in the oil-rich province rejected opening a legal path towards separation, in a result Prime Minister Mark Carney called a choice for…
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Vance says Ukraine is not an ally and should stay out of NATO
The US Vice-President also tied the riots in France to immigration and declined to follow Donald Trump in backing Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump calls for ‘somebody else’ to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf
The US President has again questioned Volodymyr Zelensky's standing, nine days after urging Ukraine to find a new leader, while signalling he would sit down with…
Trump says Zelensky never wanted to end the Ukraine war
The US President defended his waiver of new sanctions on Moscow as European governments moved in the opposite direction.
Fire kills four Canadian soldiers at base that prepares troops for Latvia
Canada has lost four soldiers and seen 39 injured in a grass fire at its main army training centre, as Ottawa builds up the NATO brigade it leads on Europe's eastern…
Ben Gvir accuses Netanyahu of promising EU governments to drop him from cabinet
Israel's national security minister says European foreign ministers were given private assurances that he will not sit in the next coalition.
Trump endorses Netanyahu and warns Israelis against the ‘wrong leader’
The US president's late intervention lands with Likud trailing Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party in most polls and neither bloc near a Knesset majority.
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Russia takes over assets of five European companies
Western governments and international legal experts have described the takeovers as unlawful expropriation.
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Trump says US is talking to Russia and China about denuclearisation
Trump’s comments come months after the New START treaty expired on February 5, 2026.
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Houthis claim missile hit on Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon
Analysts note that the engagement appears to have been a proximity detonation rather than a direct hit, and that the pilot manoeuvred and deployed flares.
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Trump says Zelensky ‘not a good guy’ and rules him out of any Russia deal
The US President has turned on his Ukrainian counterpart days after agreeing to buy Russian diesel, deepening the rift between Washington and Kyiv.
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Labour moves to end local deals with Greens over ‘Zionism is racism’ policy
Four of the party’s five MPs opposed it: Adrian Ramsay, Ellie Chowns, Carla Denyer and Siân Berry. Hannah Spencer abstained.
Trump wishes Pope Leo XIV a quick recovery after lung cancer surgery
The US President's warm words follow months of friction with the first American pope over migration and the Middle East.
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Trump announces oil push in ‘our new and beautiful Greenland’
President Trump has announced plans for significant oil and mineral exploration in Greenland, citing potential reserves greater than almost anywhere else globally.
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Bipartisan US senators call Trump-Putin diesel deal a ‘betrayal of the people of Ukraine’
The letter was sent and led by Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal and signed by six Republicans and six Democrats.
Trump says Putin wants a deal ‘more than Zelensky’ as Kyiv reports new energy strikes
The US President has played down reports that Moscow broke the "energy ceasefire" he declared a day earlier, while the EU has adopted the largest single expansion…
Burnham now says Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
No intelligence assessment has been published to support the claim, which lands as London reopens the question of its relationship with Brussels.
Trump declares Russia-Ukraine ‘energy ceasefire’ as strikes on Kyiv continue
Neither Moscow nor Kyiv has confirmed any agreement, and Russian drones hit Ukrainian power plants hours after the announcement, while European buyers remain shut…
Pope Leo XIV announces surgery to remove lung nodule
The 71-year-old Pontiff told pilgrims in St Peter's Square that the growth had been caught early, less than a month before his first papal journey to Latin America.
Trump calls for a new Ukrainian president as Kyiv rejects outside pressure
The US president said Ukraine needed a leader able to make a deal, drawing applause from Moscow and a reminder from Kyiv that only Ukrainians choose their head of…
Brazilian judge orders arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro as runoff nears
He is currently in the United States, and the warrant takes effect if he returns.
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EU plans new military mission in Lebanon as UNIFIL withdraws
That resolution authorised a force of up to 15,000 personnel. At its peak, the mission deployed more than 10,000 peacekeepers.
Russian Liberal politician jailed for four years over €37 in donations to Navalny foundation
The court ordered the 3,500 roubles confiscated, along with a mobile phone, Kommersant reported.
Britain charges serving Royal Navy sailor with spying for foreign power
Teddy Young, 24, faces two counts under the National Security Act after an investigation by counter-terrorism detectives in London.
Trump insists on talking of Iranian missiles hitting Los Angeles and San Diego
The US President told a Texas rally his administration would never allow such a strike, two days after the same remarks drew condemnation from California's Democrat…
Iran summons French ambassador over policing of school protests
Tehran accuses Paris of double standards as France hits back by summoning the Iranian ambassador over an alleged disinformation campaign.
UN says most child migrants reaching Europe now travel alone
The concentration is sharpest in Italy and Spain, where 86 per cent of the children arrived alone.