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Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Banging drums and chanting for regime change, the large and boisterous demonstration in Munich was part of what Prince Reza Pahlavi described as a “global day […]

Bangladesh’s incoming leader said on Saturday that he would work to build a more democratic country, overcoming challenges related to weak institutions after his party secured an election victory. Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a majority in Thursday’s election in the 350-member Parliament. An 11-member alliance led by the Jamaat-e-Islami party, the country’s […]

Britain has blamed the Kremlin for killing opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was likely done using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin. Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, the UK and its allies have pinned the blame on the Russian state following analysis of […]

Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich, Germany, to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Prince Reza Pahlavi called for demonstrations in Munich, Los Angeles and Toronto on what he described as a “global day of action”, urging supporters to […]

The first official Eurovision Song Contest live tour, which was set to visit London this summer, has been cancelled because of “unforeseen challenges”. The organisation has apologised to fans in a message posted to the official Eurovision website, where it has announced the event will be rescheduled at a later date. The Eurovision Song Contest […]

Minister of State Neale Richmond has accused Sinn Féin of “abandoning Ukraine” after its MEPs voted against a €90 billion loan to the country amid the ongoing Russian war.  The loan involved €30 billion of financial support and €60 billion for military equipment. Sinn Féin MEPs Kathleen Funchion and Lynn Boylan voted against the measure, […]

At least three people died and nearly two dozen others were injured after a building used as temporary lodgings for workers caught fire early on Friday in a suburb of Hungary’s capital, authorities said. Firefighters extinguished the fire in Budakeszi, about five miles west of Budapest, after it engulfed the two-storey building in the early […]

A man wielding a knife and scissors was fatally shot by police in Paris when he tried to attack an officer during a ceremony at the city’s Arc de Triomphe monument, officials said. The suspect, a French national born in 1978 who had previously been convicted in Belgium on terrorist-related charges, died in hospital from […]

A man wielding a knife tried to attack police during a ceremony beneath the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris on Friday, and was shot and injured by a police officer, officials said. The attacker targeted an officer securing the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame honouring unknown soldiers at the Napoleon-era landmark, according to […]

Keir Starmer met the Ukrainian president and European leaders at a major defence summit. Efforts to end the war between Ukraine and Russia are high on the agenda at the Munich Security Conference as the four-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion nears. The future of transatlantic ties is also the focus of discussions as […]