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New Sky TV show The Wargame will see former Conservative MP Michael Gove navigate war with Russia as the prime minister of a fictional cross-party cabinet. The four-part series, produced by The Garden as part of ITV Studios, is based on the Sky podcast of the same name and will take viewers into fictional Cobr-style […]

Pope Leo has exalted the first American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today to care for migrants in need, as he visited her birthplace during a day trip to northern Italy. Leo, who has clashed with the Trump administration over its migrant crackdown, urged young people in particular to learn about […]

France is putting emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricting public alcohol consumption and cancelling some outdoor sporting events to cope with a heatwave baking parts of Europe. About a third of France is under the national weather service’s heat red alert and temperatures are high nationwide, with 40C likely to be reached […]

Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday killed at least six people, including two children and a cameraman with broadcaster Al Jazeera, according to Palestinian health officials. Despite an October ceasefire between Israel and the militant group Hamas, the enclave has seen near-daily Israeli attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health […]

The paint is peeling from Washington’s Reflecting Pool after the renovation ordered by President Donald Trump, and he is now alleging that someone damaged it intentionally. “We’ve had some real problems with vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool,” he posted on his social media site on Friday night. “Just like three days ago, they destroyed […]

Services at Edinburgh Airport are returning to normal after it was evacuated on Friday evening because of a security alert. An explosive ordnance disposal team was deployed to the airport to investigate what Police Scotland described as a “potentially suspicious package”, which was discovered at about 6.50pm on Friday. An evacuation was ordered and a […]

President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, saying that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent G7 summit and criticising what he said was Italy’s lack of co-operation during the Iran war. The remarks deepen the spat that began this week with the Republican president’s […]

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana on Friday urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans, after a landmark UN resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity”. The Next Steps conference in the Ghanaian capital Accra issued a declaration calling on countries involved in the […]

Two freight trains collided on a railway bridge in Germany overnight, officials said on Saturday. The crash sent two wagons plunging off the bridge and on to the street below. One person was killed. The German news agency dpa did not identify the victim in the crash, which happened in the city of Munich. The […]

Edinburgh Airport has reopened after areas of the terminal building were evacuated on Friday evening due to a security alert. An explosive ordnance disposal team was deployed to the airport to investigate what Police Scotland described as a “potentially suspicious package”, which was discovered at around 6.50pm on Friday. An evacuation was ordered and a […]