The US president said the European Union must enact the trade deal agreed last year and drop tariffs on American goods to zero. BBC News

Federico Valverde was taken to hospital with a head injury after an alleged dressing room incident with Real Madrid team-mate Aurelien Tchouameni, just three days before they face a crunch title match against rivals Barcelona. Real later said in a statement they had opened disciplinary proceedings against the pair “following …

Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil blamed the US president’s “irresponsible war in Iran” for harming the Germany economy. BBC News

A scaled-back parade, too, is a symbol: of a country that has failed to secure victory in Ukraine after more than four years of war. In January the conflict passed a milestone: Russia’s war on Ukraine has gone on longer than the Soviet Union’s fight against Hitler’s Germany, which is …

A 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa is among those who left MV Hondius at St Helena. BBC News

The road crossing is the latest sign of the deepening relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow. BBC News

The case first emerged last year, involving allegations of torture, rape and abuse of power. BBC News

“The gold medal for philology is a pure creation of Mr Florent Montaclair, who awarded it to himself via the intervention of this learned society, which he himself had evidently created, and this university, which only exists on an internet site,” said Lallois. BBC News

Police search locations in 12 states, mainly in the East and South of the country in what prosecutors say is a targeted raid. BBC News

Ukraine’s president says Russia has “spurned the ceasefire” and Kyiv is deciding on further action to take. BBC News

A parliamentary committee of enquiry levelled charges of left-wing bias at state-owned France Télévisions and Radio France. BBC News

At a gathering in Armenia, leaders admit their alliances “aren’t where they want them to be”.  BBC News

The attack comes as the Kremlin prepares to hold a scaled-back military parade on Saturday. BBC News

Two European summits are being held in a country long considered Russia’s closest ally in the region. BBC News

Sébastien Lecornu visited a boulangerie on Labour Day, defying unions who say 1 May must remain a mandatory rest day. BBC News

It later included a clause stating the deal can be suspended if the Trump administration is deemed to have “undermined the objectives of the deal, discriminated against EU economic operators, threatened member states’ territorial integrity, foreign and defence policies, or engaged in economic coercion”. BBC News

Mladic commanded Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s against the Bosnian Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) armies, during a war in which his troops committed “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, besieged the main city of Sarajevo with the deaths of more than 10,000 people, and carried out the massacre of 8,000 …

“By doing so, the Belgian Government is taking responsibility for Belgium’s long-term energy future, with the objective of building a financially and economically viable activity that supports security of supply, climate objectives, industrial resilience and socio-economic prosperity,” the statement adds. BBC News

Earlier this month a number of strikes were carried out on oil infrastructure in the city of Tuapse on the Black Sea, leading to significant oil spills. On local Telegram chat groups, people shared photos of oil slicks in the sea, black puddles on the road and stray animals covered …

In his post, Trump said he is “studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time.” The US has a significant military presence in Germany, with more than 36,000 active duty troops assigned to bases across …