Rousing orchestral music plays over a video of a snowy Moscow street dotted with billboards celebrating an end to the war in Ukraine. “The Special Military Operation is over,” one fictional billboard reads, using the Kremlin-approved term for its war on Ukraine. “Our heroes are coming home.” Underneath, a beautiful, …

Cape Verdeans arrived in Massachusetts in waves of migration from the 1850s as whalers and seamen. The state is home to the largest Cape Verdean population in the United States, with estimates ranging from roughly 70,000 to over 90,000 residents. Alves regularly returns to his homeland to support the team …

Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups. BBC News

And it may be that culture matters more than cash. “Part of the problem is we overestimate how much finances work,” says Carney. Israel, the only country in the OECD with a fertility rate that is comfortably above replacement, doesn’t have particularly high levels of government spending on family benefits. …

Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone a successful lung transplant in Oslo, the country’s royal household has said. Mette-Marit, 52, was diagnosed with a form of pulmonary fibrosis in 2018. In recent months, her condition had worsened. “We are delighted that everything has progressed well so far,” Are Holm, lung …

Sir Keir told the BBC on Wednesday the incident should not have happened and the couple must have felt “terrified”. “What happened in the Channel was deeply concerning. It was reckless. The MoD have done an assessment. Their assessment is that the Russian vessel was drifting, and they were warning …

By starting the match, Ronaldo became the oldest outfield player to start a World Cup match at 41 years and 132 days of age. It was a surprise, therefore, that the veteran was left on the field for the duration of the match. Ex-Premier League striker Chris Sutton, commentating for …

A 63-year-old British man has died in a paragliding accident in Spain’s north-eastern Catalonia region, authorities have said. Emergency services received a report of the accident in the Palau de Noguera area, near the town of Tremp, about 13:30 local time (14:30 BST) on Wednesday. The man, who was found …

A Nato official has previously told BBC Verify that the Russian warship, Admiral Grigorovich, has been assigned to escort sanctioned oil tankers. But it is unclear whether the frigate is accompanying the Forwarder. Admiral Grigorovich was involved in an incident on Tuesday when it fired warning shots towards a British …

By Sarah Rainsford, in Rome Even for sun-loving Italy, current temperatures are extreme for June. The list of cities issued with a red alert warning is long and set to grow on Wednesday, with the most sweltering spots in the centre and north of the country. As the temperature climbed …

A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Norwegian teenager accused of travelling to England to carry out a killing on behalf of an international crime gang backed by Iran. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, allegedly agreed with the Swedish Foxes gang to shoot an unknown …

Four and a half years since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war of attrition on the front line in Ukraine grinds on, out of sight for many in Russia. Kyiv’s long-range strikes on targets across Russia as well as Moscow and St Petersburg are an indication of …

The parents of a boy who shot dead nine children and a security guard at a Serbian elementary school have been given jail terms in a retrial in Belgrade. The boy was 13 when he shot dead seven girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in …

The US wants Nato members to contribute more to defence spending in Europe and says some countries have not shown how they will reach an agreed target of 5% of national economic output (GDP) which includes 3.5% on core defence and 1.5% on related infrastructure. Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte said …

Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi will stand trial for rape, French prosecutors have confirmed. A woman accused the Paris St-Germain defender of raping her at his home in the French capital in 2023, when she was aged 24. The public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, began a …

“According to the evidence … it seems that it is the 81-year-old man who struck the victim, who is deceased, with a pétanque boule,” Alexa Dubourg, the public prosecutor in Mont-de-Marsan, told local paper Sud Ouest. She said the incident was “an argument which degenerated into a physical [confrontation]”. Investigations …

But another local resident, Nadezhda, saw nothing normal in what’s happening. “It took us four years to win World War Two, even though our soldiers had little food and water,” she told me. “Today we have all the resources we need. But this war goes on. I’m shocked.” How do …

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Russian-backed authorities have suspended fuel sales to the public in the occupied region of Crimea as Ukraine continues its attacks on the peninsula. Fuel had already been rationed due to shortages caused by Ukraine’s recent campaign against supply routes in Russian-occupied territories. Governor Sergey Aksyonov said individuals and businesses would …

France has issued red heatwave alerts for around half the country including Paris for Monday as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels. On Sunday temperatures in the south-western city of Bordeaux hit 40C (104F). Earlier, French authorities banned alcohol consumption in public places during the annual Fête de la …