EPA Russia has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as its troops advance in Ukraine President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will achieve all its objectives by force if Ukraine does not agree to a deal. “It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree …

President Xi Jinping has been joined by 26 world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to watch China’s military parade. It’s the first time the three leaders have all been seen together in public. The parade marks 80 years of Japan’s surrender in …

Reuters It is the third time in two years that Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un have met Russia’s Vladimir Putin has thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the courage of his soldiers who have been fighting in Ukraine on the Russian side. Kim, in response, said he …

A man has been shot dead by police in the southern French city of Marseille after five people were wounded in a hotel and a nearby street. The man was armed with two knives and a baton and had ignored police warnings to drop his weapons, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone …

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor NurPhoto via Getty Images The AfD is hoping to treble its vote in Germany’s most populous state As many as six candidates for Germany’s far-right AfD have died in recent weeks ahead of local elections in the big western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Police have made …

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter, BBC News, Singapore Getty Images Russia, India and China’s top leaders met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin Monday’s meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi marked a rare display of solidarity – and an opportunity for Putin to engage …

Czech opposition leader and former prime minister Andrej Babis has been hit in the head with a metal crutch during an election rally. He was taken to hospital for tests and discharged shortly afterwards. A woman was also treated in hospital over the same incident. Her identity has not been …

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping were among a group of more than 20 world leaders attending a regional security summit in China over the weekend. This year’s gathering of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation was the largest since it was founded. It …

The head of the European Central Bank has warned that if President Donald Trump were to undermine the independence of the US Federal Reserve, it would represent a “very serious danger” to the global economy. Christine Lagarde said if the Fed was forced to respond to political diktats, it would …

A court in Finland has sentenced a controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement to six years in prison after convicting him of terrorism-related offences. Simon Ekpa, a Finnish citizen of Nigerian origin, “attempted to promote the independence of the so-called Biafra region in south-eastern Nigeria by illegal means”, according …

A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as a courier in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, sparking a manhunt. Ukraine’s interior minister Igor Klymenko …

The Bayeux Tapestry, which documents the Norman invasion of England in 1066, will be closed to the public in France from Monday as opposition mounts ahead of its move to London. The next time it will be possible to see the nearly 1,000-year-old work of art should be when it …

Tom BennettBBC News and Jaroslav LukivBBC News Getty Images Parubiy was a former secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council The former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in the western city of Lviv, officials have said. Unverified footage, purportedly of the shooting, appears …

Celebrities have donned their best gowns and suits on the red carpet for this year’s Venice Film Festival. The multi-day event, which began on Wednesday, saw actress Julia Roberts beaming as she attended for the first time. Actor George Clooney missed a press conference for his upcoming movie Jay Kelly …

Russia launched a “massive” overnight attack on Ukraine’s southern and central regions, authorities said, as Kyiv struck Russian oil refineries. One woman was killed in Zaporizhzhia and 28 people were injured – including three children – according to local officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched over 500 drones …

Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, came off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday. Introduced with eight minutes remaining, 22-year-old Floriani Mussolini earned the penalty from which Manuel de Luca struck the winner for the newly promoted …

Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Rome Getty Images/LaPresse via AP Italy’s prime minister said she was disgusted by the site while MEP Alessandra Moretti said it included incitement to rape An Italian website that posted doctored images of well-known women, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with obscene commentary, has …

At least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, coastguards in the north-west African country have said. Seventeen people have been rescued and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the dugout canoe that was heading …

A day of mourning is being observed in Kyiv after the second biggest Russian aerial attack of the war so far killed at least 23 people, including four children, and injured dozens of others. The city’s mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said it was to honour the dead, as a massive recovery …

Jose Mourinho has left his role as Fenerbahce boss after just over a year. The Portuguese’s departure comes two days after the Turkish club were eliminated from the Champions League play-offs by Benfica. In a statement, Fenerbahce said Mourinho had “parted ways” with the club, before thanking the 62-year-old for …