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Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs and his condition remains “complex”, the Vatican says. The 88-year-old has been suffering from a respiratory infection for more than a week and was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday. “The follow-up chest CT scan which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon… demonstrated the onset…

The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary. For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take. In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the West, it was back at…

Jeremy Bowen International editor Reporting fromSumy, northern Ukraine Getty Ukraine’s battlefield is far from the air-conditioned rooms of Saudi Arabia, where US and Russian delegations met The Russians and Americans are talking again, as European leaders and diplomats contemplate the hard choices forced on them by US President Donald Trump. Without question, Trump’s diplomatic ultimatum…

More than 200 unarmed civilians have been killed in a cluster of villages in Sudan over three days by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that is involved in a brutal conflict with the military, a local rights group has said. The Emergency Lawyers network said the attacks happened in al-Kadaris and al-Khelwat towards the…

On Monday afternoon a Delta Air Lines plane crashed as it came in to land at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada, miraculously there were no fatalities. Lecturer and former commercial pilot Marco Chan and aviation expert Professor Graham Braithwaite have spoken to the BBC and analysed video footage of the moment the plane crashed. It…

Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring’s Russia editor RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / HANDOUT Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his country won’t accept peacekeeping forces from Nato countries in Ukraine under any peace deal, following high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia. “Any appearance by armed forces under some other flag does not change anything.…

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Reuters Three Americans and two Russians made up the two teams at the talks in Saudi Arabia that have underscored an end to Western isolation of Moscow. The men described the meeting as preparing the groundwork for broader “high-level” talks and agreed to reset their countries’ diplomatic relations. Who are…

Hamas says it will hand over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the Palestinian armed group. The group’s negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said the bodies to be released would include those of the Bibas family – Shiri and her young children Kfir and Ariel, who were aged nine…

Shaimaa Khalil Tokyo correspondent Reuters The Fukushima disaster continues to hang over Japan, bringing back painful memories Japan says it will increase its reliance on nuclear energy in a major policy shift as it seeks to meet growing demand from power-hungry sectors like AI and semiconductors. An energy plan approved by the cabinet on Tuesday…

Argentine President Javier Milei has denied promoting a newly launched cryptocurrency which collapsed shortly after he mentioned it in a social media post on Friday. The cryptocoin $Libra quickly rose in value before nosediving, causing severe losses for the majority of people who had invested in it. A judge will now determine if the president…