Europe

Vladimir Putin has said he will discuss Xi Jinping’s 12-point plan to “settle the acute crisis in Ukraine”, during a highly anticipated visit to Moscow by the Chinese president. “We’re always open for a negotiation process,” Mr Putin said, as the leaders called each other “dear friend”. China released a …

Mr. Aaron Edwards, a Christian theologian has been fired by a Methodist Bible college in the U.K. over his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed. It was learnt that the college also threatened to report Dr. Aaron who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England as a …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been slapped with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in the Hague. The warrant is premised on accusation that Putin has committed the war crime of illegal deportation of at least 100 children from Ukraine, a country his troops invaded over …

Eight-year-old ginger cat Juniper might look cute and fluffy, but appearances can be deceptive. “She was an efficient hunter,” says her owner, Hugh Fathers, a retiree living in rural Australia. “I don’t know how prolific – because I never saw all of her kills.” Australia has a cat problem. Its …

The winter may be over, but Oleksii in Kharkiv believes the battle to save Ukraine’s power supply from Vladimir Putin’s missiles will continue as long as Russia has the ability to strike it. Every one of Ukraine’s thermal and hydroelectric power plants has been damaged since Russia launched its assault …

Shares in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a key lender to technology start-ups, plummeted on Thursday as investors moved to withdraw their deposits. The slide came a day after the bank announced a $2.25bn (£1.9bn) share sale to help shore up its finances. Shares in banks have fallen around the world …

A number of people were killed and injured in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in Germany’s northern Hamburg city late on Thursday. Police say the gunman acted alone, and is thought to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among the six or seven fatalities …

At least 14 people from sub-Saharan African countries have drowned off Tunisia as they tried to reach Europe by boat in the latest tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisia’s coastguard said in a statement on Thursday that officers the previous night had intercepted “a group whose boat had sunk, rescuing …

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s daughter has been christened at the couple’s California home. Princess Lilibet Diana, who was born to Prince Harry and Meghan in June 2021, was christened on Friday. The announcement is the first time she has been publicly called a princess and confirms that Harry …

In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance scams. One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal gangs across South East Asia, is called the “pig butchering romance scam”. The scammers refer to their victims as pigs, whom …