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Rescuers stand on July 18, 2014 on the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held eastern Ukraine

298 people killed

UN agency finds Russia responsible for 2014 downing of airliner over Ukraine

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman look on during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 13, 2025.

Promised billions of dollars

US, Saudi Arabia ink massive $142 billion arms deal: statement

US President Donald Trump is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman upon his arrival in Riyadh

First major visit

Trump boasts Saudi business deals as he basks in royal welcome

Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party failed to secure a majority in Kosovo's parliament to form a government

After 14 unsuccessful attempts

Stand-off leaves Kosovo unable again to elect speaker

Rights groups accuse the UK government of breaching international law by supplying fighter jet parts to Israel

Accused of breaching international law

Rights groups take UK govt to court over Israel arms sales

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt addresses a press conference in Berlin

Nationwide crackdown

Police raid conspiracy theorist group 'Kingdom of Germany'

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in late April said it had depleted all its food stocks in Gaza

'Moral bankruptcy'

Medical charity condemns Israel's use of hunger as 'weapon of war' in Gaza

Illustrative image

Belgian border region

Accident in Saint-Hubert claims life of 10-year-old boy

A Vietnamese tycoon trying to avoid a death sentence promises to turn her property empire into a 'golden goose' to pay back the assets she embezzled

Fraud amounting to $27 billion

Vietnam death row tycoon promises to turn properties into 'golden goose'

Morning Roundup

Kirchberg murder trial begins, PM to give State of the Nation address, and Cannes Film Festival starts

US President Donald Trump has long been unhappy with the current Air Force One jets

'Ethics concerns'

Trump says would be 'stupid' to reject Qatari Air Force One gift

Over a dozen abandoned book bags were piled before a pole flying the Myanmar flag outside the school building

Despite humanitarian ceasefire

Myanmar junta airstrike kills 22 at school: witnesses

The first group of white Afrikaners to arrive in the United States for resettlement pose for photographers at Dulles Airport in Virginia

Following Trump's offer

First group of white South Africans arrive in US for resettlement

PKK leaders decided to disband after an appeal by the movement's jailed founder Abdullah Ocalan

Founded in the late 1970s

Kurdish militant group PKK ends decades of armed struggle

Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica with his wife Lucia Topolansky

Modest cult figure

Uruguay's ex-president Mujica receiving palliative care: wife

US-Israeli hostage released by Hamas

The crates contained Nazi-themed postcards, photographs, progapanda material, notebooks and party membership documents

Undiscovered for 84 years

Nazi files found in champagne crates in Argentine court basement

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure following the anti-immigration Reform party's gains in local elections

'Finally take back control'

UK govt toughens immigration plans as hard-right gains

The Kremlin has yet to respond to Zelensky's declaration that he will be 'waiting for Putin in Turkey on Thursday'

Amid ceasefire negotiations

Zelensky wants Trump at peace talks, Russia silent on whether Putin will go

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 12, 2025

'Historic' tour

Trump heads on major Middle East tour

Modi shares warm ties with US President Donald Trump who first announced the ceasefire

Back from the brink of war

Indian PM Modi vows strong response to any future 'terrorist attack'

Burkina Faso

'Executed in front of their homes'

Jihadist attack kills 'several dozen' in Burkina Faso

After party in clubhouse

Major fire breaks out in forest near Trier

The ICC has been asked to reconsider Israel's appeal

Israel urges ICC to drop arrest warrants against PM

Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski accused Russia of 'sabotage'

Poland to close Russian consulate in Krakow over 'sabotage'

The Israel pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020. Trade between Israel and the UAE has grown consistently

Trump in the Gulf

With Israel ties on the table, UAE offers Saudis an example

Mareena (R) wants to return home as soon as possible

Following ceasefire

Indian teams defuse bombs in Kashmir border areas

French President Emmanuel Macron (C), British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) met in a compartment on their train to Kyiv

Grave accusations

France condemns 'fake news' over Europe leaders' cocaine accusation

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