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Reuters The move was announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after peace talks between the US and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia Ukraine has said it is ready to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia proposed by the US, after a day of talks between the two countries in Saudi Arabia. US Secretary…

Reuters Alawites fleeing the violence in Syria’s coastal region have been crossing the Nahr el-Kabir river to reach safety in Lebanon Entire families, including women and children, were killed during the recent violence in Syria’s coastal region, the UN human rights office says. A spokesman told reporters that the UN had so far verified the…

Just short of his 80th birthday, Rodrigo Duterte, a man who once vowed to purge his country through a bloody anti-drugs and crime campaign, found himself outmanoeuvred and in custody. The former president was met by Philippines police as he arrived in Manila on a flight from Hong Kong, where he had been rallying support…

Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has lost his appeal against a ruling barring him from participating in May’s presidential election. The Constitutional Court issued the final ruling on Tuesday afternoon after deliberating for two hours. A large crowd who were gathered outside the court in Bucharest shouted “traitors” and “we are going nowhere”. The Central…

The government of Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro is expected to lose a vote of confidence on Tuesday, pitching the country into its third general election in barely three years. A majority of MPs are expected to vote against him, toppling his right-of-centre minority government. While Portugal’s President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is not obliged…

Armed Islamists have stormed a hotel in the city of Beledweyne in central Somalia, and a siege is ongoing, police and witnesses have said. The attack by al-Shabab began with a car bomb exploding, followed by gunmen entering the hotel, leading to intense clashes with security forces. Police said at least four people had been…

Aleks Phillips & Paulin Kola BBC News Getty Images Sweden’s security service said Russia’s activities were mainly aimed at undermining Nato cohesion Russia poses the greatest threat to Sweden due to its aggressive attitude towards the West, the Scandinavian nation’s security service Sapo has said. It wrote in its annual report that while Sweden joining…

Armed militants in Pakistan’s Balochistan region have attacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers and taken a number of hostages, military sources have told the BBC. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) fired at the Jaffar Express Train as it travelled from Quetta to Peshawar. A statement from the separatist group said it had bombed the…

Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding if the plaza was not renamed. “You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history,” said DC resident Dianne Bradley. Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the name of the plaza…

An Indonesian TikToker has been sentenced to almost three years in prison after reportedly ‘talking’ to a picture of Jesus on her phone and telling him to get a haircut. Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender woman with more than 442,000 TikTok followers, had been on a livestream, and was responding to a comment that told…