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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 […]

Another round of US-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next week in Geneva, days ahead of the fourth anniversary of the all-out Russian invasion of its neighbour, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said on Friday. The meeting will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in […]

A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, police said Friday. The 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for a series of thefts committed in […]

A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in Nasa’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX launched the replacements as soon as possible at Nasa’s request, sending the US, French and Russian astronauts on an expected eight- to nine-month mission stretching until autumn. The four […]

Seamus Culleton, the Irishman from Kilkenny who is currently detained in Texas awaiting deportation, was facing drug charges when he moved to the US. According to the Irish Times, he was facing charges of alleged possession of drugs, and possession of drugs for sale or supply, at Ballyverneen, Glenmore, in May 2008. A warrant was […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed victory in the country’s first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning itself to form the next government and potentially reshaping Bangladesh’s political landscape after years of intense rivalry and disputed polls. The party’s media unit said on X it had secured enough seats in Parliament to govern on […]

Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to ex-US president Barack Obama, has announced her resignation after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an “older brother” and downplayed his sex crimes. Ms Ruemmler said she would “step down […]