Iryo said its train, which had 147 passengers on board, was “struck from behind” by another train, by Renfe train which was carrying 397 passengers. Spain’s transport minister Óscar Puente said on Wednesday that the decision to instruct the trains to move again, without any speed restrictions, was “inexplicable”. Prime …

A high-speed train crash has killed at least 68 people and injured dozens more in central Spain. It occurred when a train travelling from Madrid to Seville barrelled into another train – which was stationary on the tracks – on Wednesday morning. The force saw several carriages fall down an …

Spanish journalist Roberto Gómez was dozing on the high-speed Renfe train, when the train stopped and an announcement was relayed to passengers that there was congestion on the tracks. The train eventually began to move again, he explained, and then the crash happened. “The impact was terrible,” he told Onda …

Relations between the US, Ukraine and its European allies have been souring since US President Donald Trump agreed to lift some sanctions from Russia – allowing it to export oil to the US. Stubb and Støre said they had taken the initiative to continue discussions held in the Norwegian capital …

There were scenes of jubilation on the streets of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, after the country’s long-standing leader Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. His Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was defeated by the Student List, a movement with no obvious leaders and whose members are not career politicians. …

They have no obvious leaders and have no grounding in politics, and yet the “Student List-Students Win” movement attracted anti-government voters across Serbian society. They fielded candidates for all 250 parliamentary seats, and yet no students were among them. As he joined the students marching towards Belgrade last week, lead …

They have no obvious leaders and have no grounding in politics, and yet the “Student List-Students Win” movement attracted anti-government voters across Serbian society. They fielded candidates for all 250 parliamentary seats, and yet no students were among them. As he joined the students marching towards Belgrade last week, lead …

They have no obvious leaders and have no grounding in politics, and yet the “Student List-Students Win” movement attracted anti-government voters across Serbian society. They fielded candidates for all 250 parliamentary seats, and yet no students were among them. As he joined the students marching towards Belgrade last week, lead …

Serbia’s long-standing leader Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in the country’s snap parliamentary election. “We still do not have final results… it is clear that we have lost these elections,” the right-wing populist leader said late on Sunday. Preliminary figures provided by Serbia’s election commission …

The lawyer for Pengo Bossio Wangi, the one person killed during the attack, told French media the move to place the suspect under observation was “very rare”. He alleged that it was being used to portray the suspect as criminally irresponsible rather than having acted deliberately. Wangi, a 26-year-old French-Congolese …

Instead of running for office themselves, student-led assemblies at the country’s university faculties have chosen 250 candidates to stand in the parliamentary election, with Ilija Srdanović, professor at Novi Sad University, heading the list. The Student List of candidates for parliament also includes doctors, actors, academics and sports personalities “These …

He went on to say that SpaceX had “done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth” and reiterated his stipulation that Starshield was a different system and controlled by the US government, adding: “What they decide to do is up to them.” He added in a later …

Police have clashed with protesters in Paris as some demonstrations in France turned violent on Saturday. A largely peaceful day of protests turned into unrest after nightfall, as protesters were seen throwing objects and fireworks at police. Around 70,000 officers were deployed across France for a second consecutive weekend and …

Khyliuk, a journalist, was held in the earliest days of the invasion, when Russian troops advanced towards the capital Kyiv. He said he knew Hubbard’s health was declining over the months they were initially held in nearby cells because he heard his complaints and the guards calling him more often …

Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access, Donald Trump has said. The US president was speaking hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity, which is provided by Musk’s satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored. Musk has previously denied he was behind the slowdown, which affects Ukraine’s …

Kyiv has been hit by another round of missile strikes hours after Russia agreed to resume peace talks on Wednesday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the three waves of missiles were launched by “Russian humanitarians”. This comes after US envoy Steve Witkoff called Russia’s President Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” following …

Only authorised union protests will be allowed in French towns and cities on Saturday, President Emmanuel Macron has said, after demonstrations across the country turned violent last weekend. Speaking as some cities including Lyon and Nice imposed complete bans, Macron said “illegitimate” protests would not be allowed but unions would …

For me, the most telling statement of the day was from Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov. He took part in the St Petersburg talks. Ushakov said that Steve Witkoff had told President Putin about the discussions in Oslo and (as Witkoff viewed them) “new approaches from the Europeans …

Russia is “ready in principle” to resume talks with the US and Ukraine on ending the conflict, Vladimir Putin’s top aide has said. Yuriy Ushakov was speaking after Putin met US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Russian city of St Petersburg. Kyiv has been pressing Moscow …

Last Friday, Trump went further, waiving wide-ranging sanctions on Russia just two days before they were due to take effect. Trump said the sanctions contained in the Graham Act (named after the former South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, a vocal supporter of Ukraine who died in July) would hinder his …