The Ukrainian air force said yesterday that Russia launched 139 drones and an Iskander-M ballistic missile during an overnight attack that injured two people and damaged storage facilities.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by US President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.”

Tens of thousands of people in Paris and other French cities rallied against racism and the rise of the far right on Saturday.

Moscow is hoping to achieve “some progress” at talks in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, a Russian negotiator told state media some 48 hours before the United States meets delegations from both Ukraine and Russia in a bid to halt the three-year conflict.

Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” yesterday but there were some delays and cancellations as Europe’s busiest air hub resumed operations a day after a power station fire caused travel mayhem.

A court in France is to rule on Friday in the case of a 39-year-old convicted French jihadist charged with holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria.

Britain’s Heathrow Airport was shut yesterday after a huge fire at a nearby substation knocked out its power, stranding passengers around the world and angering airlines who questioned how such crucial infrastructure could fail.

The global music industry raked in a record $29.6 billion last year as online streaming propelled revenues to their highest level since records began in the 1990s, new figures showed on Wednesday.

The EU yesterday warned that President Donald Trump’s freeze on US-funded media outlets, including Radio Free Europe, risked “benefitting our common adversaries”. 

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday launched his term in office with a whole-hearted rejection of US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex his northern neighbor.

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively boosting defence and infrastructure spending, paving the way for the plan’s approval in parliament.

Portugal’s president was on Wednesday holding talks with political leaders on whether to call fresh elections, after Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s government lost a vote of no confidence.

Russian authorities said yesterday that security forces had killed four “bandits” linked to the Islamic State (IS) group who were planning an attack in the Dagestan republic.

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said yesterday.

Germany’s conservatives who are set to lead the next government argued yesterday that the country should quickly reintroduce compulsory military service.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday praised Russia’s developing ties with Myanmar, during a visit by the Asian country’s junta chief to its key ally.

A man drove a car into a crowd in Germany on Monday, killing two people and seriously injuring five, police said, adding that a 40-year-old German man was arrested over the suspected attack

Britain and France will work on a peace deal with Ukraine and present it to Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday, describing it as a step in the right direction following Friday’s explosive meeting in the White House.

European leaders closed ranks yesterday in support of Kyiv at a London summit, where they pledged to spend more on security and assemble a coalition to defend any truce in Ukraine.

The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said yesterday.