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Lebanese leaders said Beirut was in contact with Washington and Paris to press Israel to fully withdraw from south Lebanon, branding its presence in five points an "occupation" following the expiry of a ceasefire deadline.

On May 27 2019, acclaimed Australian writer Geraldine Brooks received a call from the emergency department of a hospital in Washington DC. Her American husband of 35 years, Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, had collapsed while in DC promoting his latest book. He was pronounced dead soon after arriving…

In scenes unthinkable six months ago, Moscow and Washington agree to restore full diplomatic ties

The US state department has removed a highly symbolic phrase from its routine update on Taiwan. Its previous briefings said: “We do not support Taiwan independence.” This disappeared on February 13 2025.

Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine, the powers decided on Tuesday in discussions that drew a rebuke from Kyiv over its exclusion.

European leaders are scrambling for responses after Trump reached out to Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

The Prime Minister’s appeal to the US president came after European leaders gathered in Paris for emergency talks on Ukraine.

Trump previously said he wants Ukraine to pay for US support by affording Washington access to the country’s vast but untapped rare earth minerals

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to meet with President Trump in Washington to discuss Ukraine crisis and strengthen diplomatic ties.

Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting the countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war.

Israeli PM urges US to help ‘finish the job’ as Washington makes early maximalist demand over Tehran’s programme