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A news conference due to be held by US diplomats in Syria following a meeting with the country’s new leadership has been cancelled due to “security concerns”, the US embassy has said. A US official did not confirm what the concerns were, or whether the diplomats had met with the country’s new ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa.…

At least eight people – including a child – have drowned after a speedboat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea during a chase with a Greek patrol vessel. The coastguard said the boat’s driver “lost control” in the attempt to escape from the patrol ship. The boat was travelling at high speed and collided…

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has not freed all of Syria’s prisoners. Al-Sina prison holds more than 5,000 detainees in the north-east of the country, which is under Kurdish control. These prisoners – including some Britons – are suspected fighters and supporters of the so-called Islamic State group. Most are said to have been…

A seven-year-old child has been killed and other children injured in a stabbing at a primary school in Croatia. The country’s health minister said a teacher was also injured in the knife attack in Zagreb on Friday. The alleged attacker, a 19-year-old man and former pupil, was arrested at the scene, local media reported. Photographs…

The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Efforts to locate the wreckage…

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to a booing crowd in Mayotte, while touring the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido. “I had nothing to do with the cyclone,” Macron said. “You can blame me, but it wasn’t me.” The territory, located north of Madagascar, is the poorest part of France. It suffers from extensive social and…

Reuters Macron was booed and shouted at as he met with locals on Thursday French President Emmanuel Macron has been heckled during his visit to cyclone-hit Mayotte. After facing boos and calls to resign from locals demanding more aid in devastated areas, Macron responded by telling locals: “I’m not the cyclone. I’m not responsible.” He…

Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson said negotiations are a “long process” The US House of Representatives has voted against a Donald Trump-backed funding measure, bringing a government shutdown this weekend a step closer. A revised spending plan failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed in the lower chamber of Congress, with 38 Republicans voting…

BBC/Matthew Goddard The BBC was granted rare access to the largest prison for IS detainees – Al Sina – which holds some 5,000 men As the new Syria struggles to take shape, old threats are re-emerging. The chaos since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad is “paving the way” for the so-called Islamic State (IS) to…

The ex-husband – who is under investigation for other attacks – has a divided personality, a doctor finds. Source link