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Jacqueline Howard BBC News EPA Trump and Macron shared a handshake when they met for December’s reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington later, the first one-on-one meeting between the pair since the US president re-entered the White House. Macron said in a social…

Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News Getty Images The Ukraine has substantial supplies of key minerals, but some are now in Russian-occupied territory Kyiv and Washington are close to signing a deal over US access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, a Ukrainian minister says. Olga Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said on X that…

Conclave was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, leaving the Oscars race too close to call with one week to go. Other winners included Demi Moore and Timothée Chalamet, both of whom head into Sunday’s Academy Awards with their chances of winning boosted. Meanwhile, Shogun swept the TV drama…

A Kenyan police officer who was on patrol with the international security force in Haiti has been killed in a confrontation with gang members. The officer is the first casualty suffered by the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission (MSS). The force was sent to Haiti in June last year to help restore order to the…

Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent BBC Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presented a two-state solution in 2008 “In the next 50 years, you will not find one Israeli leader that will propose to you what I propose to you now. “Sign it! Sign it and let’s change history!” It was 2008. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud…

The Sudanese army says it has broken a near two-year siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the key southern state capital of el-Obeid. The breakthrough came hours after the RSF signed a political charter in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to establish a breakaway government in areas under their control. The RSF…

Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Watch: SAG Awards 2025 best moments Conclave was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, leaving the Oscars race too close to call with one week to go. The Pope selection drama won the ceremony’s top prize, best ensemble cast, continuing its late-season momentum after taking…

New Zealand’s commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned as a government minister after he “placed a hand” on a staff member’s upper arm last week, in what he described as “overbearing” behaviour. Bayly said on Monday that he was “deeply sorry” about the incident, which he described as not an argument but an “animated discussion”.…

Getty Images Friedrich Merz says he is eager to re-engage with international partners Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, didn’t wait for the final results of his country’s election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe. Declaring the US indifferent to this continent’s fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of Nato and demanded Europe boost its own…

For as long as Nelly Naisula Sironka can remember she has never wanted children – and with one irreversible decision the 28-year-old Kenyan has ensured she never will get pregnant. Last October, she took the definitive step of undergoing a sterilisation procedure known as tubal ligation – permanently closing the door on motherhood. “I feel…