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Former president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. Judge Jee Kui-youn said he found Yoon guilty of rebellion for mobilising military and police forces in an illegal attempt to seize the liberal-led National Assembly, arrest politicians and establish unchecked power for […]

Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer not to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a day after the US said it approved of the deal. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the US president said Sir Keir would be making “a big mistake” if he proceeded with plans to hand over […]

Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk – again. Police found the 11-centimetre (4in) marble fragment near the statue over the weekend. They said on Wednesday that they had determined it was not original […]

British police have urged people with information to come forward about claims of human trafficking and sexual assault from the 1990s which appeared in the Epstein files. Surrey Police said the allegations, set out in a redacted report released by the US Department of Justice in December, allegedly took place in Virginia Water between 1994 […]

Keir Starmer said the decision to postpone dozens of May council elections had been “locally led” as he defended the UK government’s U-turn on the plans after further legal advice. Votes in 30 English councils had been postponed to help town halls through a major reorganisation of local government. But the UK Ministry of Housing, […]

The British chancellor has called on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to come forward with what he knows about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, saying he “owes it to the victims”. Rachel Reeves’ words come as multiple police forces are reviewing information contained within the three million pages of the so-called Epstein files released last month. Speaking to reporters […]

Russia has been importing electronic components from Ireland to go towards the building of “kamikaze drones” used against civilian targets in Ukraine, an Irish Times investigation has found. In a 15-month period, beginning in January 2024, just under 10 tonnes of components from Irish companies reached Russia, according to The Irish Times. This has taken […]

Keir Starmer has reiterated his backing for the US-led peace plan for Gaza in a phone call with Donald Trump. It comes as UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper is set to bring together Palestinian and Israeli officials in a push for progress on the US leader’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. Downing Street said Starmer and […]

Envoys from Moscow and Kyiv have met in Geneva for a second consecutive day of US-brokered talks. “Consultations are taking place in working groups by areas within the political and military tracks,” the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, wrote in English on X. “We are working on clarifying the parameters and mechanisms of […]

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde plans to leave her job early, ahead of next year’s French presidential election, to give outgoing French leader Emmanuel Macron an input into picking her successor, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. Lagarde’s term is due to end in October 2027, but some fear that the far right may […]