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Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) have won the country’s federal elections – as the...

A bulldozer tears huge chunks out of buildings in an emptied-out Palestinian neighbourhood. It is not clearing rubble, this is a demolition project –...

Initial exit polls appear to confirm what we have known for weeks: that the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the...

The Pope remains in a critical condition and is now showing an “initial, mild” kidney problem – but is “vigilant” and took part in...

Ukraine’s president has said he would step down in return for peace and NATO membership for his country. “If (it means) peace for Ukraine,...

Voters are heading to the polls in Germany’s general election. They are electing a new parliament after a campaign focused on the state of...

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Ukraine since the war started, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. He condemned Russia for its “aerial...

Pope Francis is still receiving a high flow of oxygen – but has suffered no further crisis, Vatican sources have said. The sources added...

Pope Francis has had blood transfusions and is “suffering more than yesterday”, the Vatican has said. The 88-year-old has been in hospital for more...

One person has been killed and two police officers seriously injured in a knife attack in eastern France. A man attacked people at a...

Six Israeli hostages have been handed over by Hamas on Saturday, while hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are due to be released. The Gaza ceasefire...

Hamas says the body of hostage Shiri Bibas has now been handed over, according to the group’s Al-Aqsa TV channel – as the Israeli...

Hamas has named six Israeli hostages who are set to be released on Saturday while Israel is expected to release more than 600 Palestinian...

A man has been found guilty of attempted murder over an attack on author Sir Salman Rushdie. The 77-year-old British-American writer was stabbed multiple...

A man has been seriously injured after a stabbing at the Berlin Holocaust memorial. Police said on X that a man had been “seriously...

Pope Francis is “not out of danger” and will remain in hospital for at least one more week, doctors treating him have said. However,...

Hamas says the remains of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas appear to have been mixed with other human remains in what it claims was an...

Voters in Germany are being exposed to copious far-right narratives online from AI-generated content and Russian disinformation campaigns. Experts monitoring social media say Russian-based...

Three buses have exploded near Tel Aviv in what Israeli police called a “terror incident”, as they search for suspects. Two of the blasts...