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Israel has launched a daylight attack on Iran’s capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city’s central area. The first apparent strike happened near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Iranian media reported strikes nationwide. The US is participating, though the extent of its involvement was not clear, according to […]

Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died. Sedaka, whose hits included Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Laugher in the Rain, died on Friday […]

A Russian drone carried out an unauthorised flight off southern Sweden earlier this week while a French aircraft carrier was docked in the port of Malmo, the Swedish military said. The armed forces said in a statement on Friday that a Swedish naval vessel detected a drone taking off from a Russian signals intelligence ship […]

A tram has derailed and slammed into a building in the centre of Milan, killing two people and injuring more than 20. The incident, along the central Vittorio Veneto avenue, came as the city is hosting its seasonal fashion shows and is in the interim between hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games. The Number […]

Donald Trump has said he is “not happy” with the Iran talks so far but that he will wait to see what happens in additional rounds of negotiations with the Middle Eastern country over its nuclear programme. “I’m not happy with the fact that they’re not willing to give us what we have to have. […]

A tram has derailed and slammed into a building in the centre of Milan, killing one person and injuring dozens. The incident, along the central Vittorio Veneto avenue, came as the city is hosting its seasonal fashion shows and is in the interim between hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games. The Number 9 tram […]

Cambodian officials have welcomed back more than six dozen centuries-old artefacts described as part of the country’s cultural heritage that had been looted during decades of war and instability. At a ceremony attended by deputy prime minister Hun Many, the 74 items were unveiled at the National Museum in Phnom Penh after their repatriation from […]

Keir Starmer has vowed to “keep on fighting” despite Labour’s humiliating defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election. The British prime minister faces intense pressure to shift his party to the left or resign after Labour came third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the previously rock-solid Greater Manchester constituency. But […]

Former US president Bill Clinton is due to testify on Friday behind ‌closed doors to a congressional panel about his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in what could ‌be a tense confrontation between the former Democratic leader and President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans. Clinton’s testimony follows that of his wife, former Secretary […]

The European ‌Union will provisionally apply a contentious free ‌trade agreement with the South American bloc Mercosur to ​ensure the bloc secures first-mover advantage, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on ​Friday. The European Commission concluded its largest -ever trade pact in terms of ‌tariff ‌reductions ​with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay after […]