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Seven people were killed when their convoy was hit. They had been unloading food aid at a warehouse.

Bengaluru’s water crisis has been described as dire by residents – and experts warn it is only going to get worse as mercury levels climb in the lead up to summer.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said Russian President Vladimir Putin will attack other states if the Kremlin wins its war in Ukraine as he sought to convince the US to approve further assistance for Kyiv.

Opposition leader, 47, was being held in jail about 40 miles north of Arctic Circle

Anti-racist groups argue the case violates discrimination laws and police are investigating.

A false rumour spread by a dubious AI-powered website caught the attention of leading politicians.

Delegates from Russia’s ruling party unanimously backed President Vladimir Putin ’s bid for re-election at a party conference in Moscow on Sunday, state agencies reported, just a day after the Kremlin leader’s supporters formally nominated him to run in the 2024 presidential election as an independent. Meanwhile Putin warned of "problems" with neighbouring Finland after it joined NATO earlier this year, saying Moscow will create a new military district in north-west Russia in response, in an interview published Sunday.

European Union leaders made a historic decision on Thursday to open membership talks with Ukraine, bypassing objections from Hungary to give Kyiv a major. political boost as its war against Russia's invasion grinds on. Although membership would likely be many years away, the decision at a summit in Brussels takes Ukraine a step closer to its long-term strategic goal of anchoring itself in the West and liberating itself from Moscow's orbit. The move came at a critical time for Ukraine, after its counter-offensive against Russian forces had failed to make major gains and with US President Joe Biden so far unable to get a $60 billion aid package for Kyiv through the U.S. Congress. The EU took the decision in a highly unorthodox fashion: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who cultivates close ties with Moscow, agreed to leave the room while his peers from the EU's 26 other members agreed the move. As the EU grants Ukraine membership talks in midst of war, bypassing Hungarian objections, FRANCE 24's Tom Burges Watson is joined by Anastasiya Shapochkina, Geopolitics Lecturer at Sciences Po and President and founder at Eastern Circles geoeconomics think tank.

Prosecutors said the suspects intended to store weapons in Berlin for possible use in an attack.

Ukraine’s capital came under another ballistic missile attack early Wednesday, injuring at least 53 people on the ground, including six children, and damaging buildings, officials said. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 10 ballistic missiles toward the capital and all were intercepted by air defences. The attack was "a traumatic experience for the residents of Kyiv, coming at a time when Ukrainians are more and more worried about the future of US aid to their country after Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Washington was inconclusive", FRANCE 24's correspondent Gulliver Cragg said.

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The incident is the latest dispute between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea.

Many passengers are complaining about the lack of help from airlines.