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Northern Ireland’s First Minister has been questioned over engagement with China, but not US president Donald Trump. It came in the Stormont Assembly after Michelle O’Neill confirmed that she would not attend St Patrick’s Day events in the White House next month due to the situation in Gaza. O’Neill is repeating a stance she took […]

A man accused of killing 15 people in a terror attack targeting a Hanukkah event at Australia’s Bondi Beach has appeared in court for the first time. Naveed Akram, 24, is accused of 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act over the attack in which dozens of people were injured […]

US secretary of state Marco Rubio was in the Hungarian capital on Monday for meetings with Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government during which they plan to sign a civilian-nuclear co-operation agreement heralded by US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump has been outspoken in his support for the nationalist Mr Orban in the Hungarian […]

Donald Trump has said members of his so-called Board of Peace have pledged 5 billion dollars (£3.6 billion) towards rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilisation and police forces for the territory. The pledges will be formally announced when board members gather in Washington on Thursday for their first meeting, […]

British pop star Charli xcx was everywhere in 2024, when the “brat summer” cultural phenomenon her album unleashed even made its ​way into US presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign. Some two years since the neon-green party album “Brat” vaulted her into stardom, Charli xcx is characteristically closing that chapter on her own terms with mockumentary […]

The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who left early because of health concerns. SpaceX delivered the US, French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. Last month’s medical evacuation was Nasa’s first in 65 years of human spaceflight. One […]

Carnival celebrations returned to Brazilian cities with glittery, outrageous costumes, samba rhythms ringing out until dawn and hundreds of raucous roaming parties flooding the streets. Carnival King Momo, Danilo Vieira, receives the key of the city from Mayor Eduardo Paes during a ceremony officially kicking off Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Silvia Izquierdo/AP) A reveller […]

The US military on Saturday reported a series of strikes against so-called Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria in retaliation for the December ambush that killed two US soldiers and one American civilian interpreter. US Central Command said in a statement that American aircraft had conducted 10 strikes against more than 30 IS targets […]

Police in Arizona investigating the disappearance of TV host Savannah Guthrie’s mother have seized a vehicle from a parking lot and sealed off a road near Nancy Guthrie’s home. A parade of sheriff’s and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock that was set up about two miles from the house. The two […]

Peter Mandelson has been photographed for the first time since being asked to give evidence to the US Congress over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The peer was seen leaving his north-west London home on Saturday, after two US politicians wrote to him on Friday asking that he appear in front of […]