Matt Murphy & Jake Horton BBC Verify Getty Images US President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia, in a flurry of claims from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida. Speaking to reporters, Trump also made claims about President Volodymyr Zelensky’s popularity and …

When he penned his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, American journalist John Reed famously titled it Ten Days That Shook The World. But 10 days is too long for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They’ve shaken things up in a week. It began with the Putin-Trump telephone conversation …

Francesca Gillett BBC News Getty Images Andrew Tate pictured inside court in Romanian capital Bucharest for a hearing last December Four women who allege they were sexually abused by the social media influencer Andrew Tate have urged the US not to interfere in his case in Romania. The women said …

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Reporting fromGalați, Romania BBC UK troops are taking part in exercise Steadfast Dart in Romania, Nato’s largest exercise this year The British Army has said it is ready to deploy to Ukraine if requested by the government. This week, 2,500 UK troops from the Army’s high …

Russian authorities have released an American national who was arrested at a Moscow airport earlier this month for cannabis possession, the US state department has confirmed. Kalob Byers, 28, was stopped at Vnukovo International Airport earlier this month after cannabis-laced sweets were discovered in his luggage, Russian state media reported. …

The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary. For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take. In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the …

Getty Images Nato and European leaders held emergency talks in Paris to discuss the war in Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron got straight on the phone to Donald Trump and, separately, to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday night, after fellow leaders of Europe’s biggest military powers left the glittering Élysée …

Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent BBC Alya made her way to Germany from Syria 10 years ago, with her then newborn Rami “I was crying,” says Alya, when she saw news of last week’s Munich attack that left a toddler and her mother dead. “Why should someone do something like …

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to meet Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in the coming days for talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, US officials say. America’s top diplomat will be joined by national security adviser Mike Waltz and the US special envoy to the Middle …

Tom Bateman State Department Correspondent Reuters Mechanical problems forced Marco Rubio’s plane to briefly return to Washington earlier this week A cracked windscreen forced US Secretary of State Marco Rubio into a rapid U-turn as his plane, en route to the Munich Security Conference, had to turn back an hour …

European leaders are set to gather for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine as concerns grow over Donald Trump’s interventions on the peace process. Sir Keir Starmer, who is expected to attend the summit in Paris, said it was a “once-in-a-generation moment for our national security” and it …

A teenager has died and four people have been wounded in a knife attack in Austria. It happened around 16:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near the main square of Villach, a southern town close to the border with Italy and Slovenia. The victim was 14 years old and the suspect …

A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained in Thursday’s car attack in the German city of Munich, police say. At least 37 people were injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a trade union rally. The driver was a 24-year-old …

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for the creation of an “army of Europe” to guard against Russia as he suggested the US may no longer come to the continent’s aid. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he also said that Ukraine would “never accept deals made behind our backs …

MOD The UK military is “so run down” it could not lead a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, the former head of the army has said. Lord Dannatt told the BBC that up to 40,000 UK troops would be needed for such a mission and “we just haven’t got that …

Tourists in the popular Portuguese city of Albufeira may soon be banned from wandering its streets in swimwear, or face a hefty fine. The beachside city in the southern Algarve region, a favourite with British holidaymakers, has revised its code of conduct, explicitly prohibiting people from being in a state …

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor VIFOGRA/PAUL/EPA-EFE The attacker admitted using his Mini Cooper to drive into the crowd in Munich An Afghan man arrested on suspicion of driving into a crowd of people in Munich, injuring 36, has admitted carrying out the attack and appears to have had a religious …

James Waterhouse Ukraine correspondent Reporting fromMalokaterynivka BBC/Matthew Goddard Oleksandr is out of work after the loss of his fishing business “I have no plans for the future at all,” says Oleksandr Bezhan, standing next to an empty, frozen paddock where he used to work as a fisherman on the bank …

An Afghan asylum seeker drove a car at a group of people in Munich, police say, injuring at least 28 people. The suspected car ramming attack happened on Thursday, a day before several world leaders are expected to arrive in the city for a security conference. BBC reporter Daniel Wittenberg …

Getty Images The driver, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was detained at the scene, officials said At least 30 people have been injured, some seriously, after a car was driven into a crowd in Munich, just a week before the country’s federal elections. The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police …