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After he snubbed last year’s edition of the gathering, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending the gathering in Beijing. Relations between India and the U.S. reached a low point this month after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Indian goods over the country’s purchase of Russian oil. Putin will stay in China until Wednesday, when Xi is hosting a military parade to commemorate the end of World War II, following Japan’s formal surrender. Alongside Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico will attend the parade, as well as Serbian…
Andriy Parubiy, a senior Ukrainian politician who served as the parliament’s speaker, has been shot dead in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs Ihor Klymenko and prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported the first known circumstances of the horrendous murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed,” Zelenskyy said on X. The country’s national police earlier in the day reported a shooting in Lviv, the nearest major Ukrainian city to the Polish border, without giving further details.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Saturday that Paris remains open to talks with Iran to avoid the reimposition of far-reaching sanctions if Tehran is willing to take concrete steps immediately. France, Germany and the United Kingdom notified the United Nations on Friday that crushing global sanctions against Iran which were lifted a decade ago would now snap back within 30 days due to the Iranian government’s unwillingness to cooperate with the international community on its nuclear program. Reiterating France’s commitment to reimpose the sanctions, Barrot nonetheless left the door open to further talks. “What happens now?” he said.…
A massive overnight Russian attack on Ukraine killed three people and injured at least 45 others across the country, among them three children, Ukrainian media reported on Saturday. The State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine reported that eight people were hospitalised, among them three children: a 9-year-old boy, a 10-year-old boy, and a 16-year-old girl. Six children were rescued. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia launched 537 Shahed-type attack drones and decoys against Ukraine overnight, as well as eight ballistic missiles and 37 cruise missiles. In Zaporizhzhya, local authorities reported that the strikes caused power outages, alongside damage to 14 apartment…
“If in a few days, at the end of the two-week period he had indicated to [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump, Vladimir Putin continues to oppose a high-level meeting with the president of Ukraine, then we will need to force by hardening sanctions — sanctions from the United States, but also European sanctions,” Barrot told reporters in Copenhagen. The EU is working on a 19th package of sanctions against Russia, most likely targeting the energy and financial sectors, while also exploring the possibility of new tariffs against Russian exports to turn the screws on Moscow’s economy, per a discussion paper seen…
Under Japan’s current custody system, an estimated 150,000 children lose access to a parent annually. Things may or may not be different starting next year. In May 2024, the country’s legislature approved an amendment to its civil code, introducing the option of shared custody for divorced parents, and the law is scheduled to take effect by 2026. However, under this new system, joint custody will only be granted if both parents agree, otherwise leaving the family court to decide what’s best. This is leading many to view the change as largely symbolic. The current system has wrought generational trauma on…
“We are nearing this date, the point of no return really … and since we have not received a reply, we have to assume the funding has not been found,” said the Beliris spokesperson. The Schuman roundabout, which has been under renovation since fall 2023 and was expected to be completed by next summer, is facing ballooning costs. The canopy, which would serve as a stylish touch to a large pedestrian area dominated by greenery and bikes instead of cars, has increased the cost, leaving the government with a €3 million gap to fill. In a letter addressed to members of the…
Trump has said there will be “consequences” if the meeting does not take place. At Friday’s ministerial talks in the southern French city of Toulon, Macron and Merz committed to ramping up support for Ukraine, where massive Russian strikes this week have cast further doubt on Putin’s purported desire for peace. They also outlined common priorities on many European policies, from energy to financial services. Macron announced that leaders of the “coalition of the willing,” a group of Western countries working on security guarantees for Ukraine in case of a ceasefire with Russia, would speak by phone with Trump this weekend and meet with each other…
Published on 29/08/2025 – 20:59 GMT+2 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of a number of Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organisation officials ahead of next month’s annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, where the groups previously have been represented. The State Department said in a statement on Friday that Rubio also had ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials be denied. The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target Palestinians with visa restrictions and comes on the same day as the Israeli military declared Gaza…