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Path to Ukraine peace not 'straight line', says Starmer

LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has cautioned that the path to peace in Ukraine was "not an entirely straight line" after "productive" talks in Berlin.Starmer and other European leaders set out conditions for...

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Kremlin 'committed' to peace amid strikes in Kyiv

A serviceman walks at the site of the penal colony hit by a Russian air strike, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. — Reuters

Portugal battles three large wildfires

A firefighter monitors a wildfire in Pombal, Portugal. — AFP

Starmer is edging closer to recognizing a Palestinian state: UK Officials

US President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Russia's Aeroflot cancels flights over massive cyberattack

People wait outside after many flights were cancelled or delayed, at Sheremetyevo international airport outside Moscow. — Reuters file photo

Ukraine drone attack disrupts Volgograd railway power

Service members fire a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops, in Kharkiv. — Reuters

Greece gets EU help to battle disastrous wildfires

Firefighters try to extinguish flames as a wildfire burns on the island of Kythira, Greece. — AFP

Russia seizes two villages in central Ukraine

A view shows burned cars at the site of the Russian drone strike, in Dnipro. — Reuters

Plane crash in Russia’s far east kills 50 people

A view shows the debris of an Angara Airlines An-24 passenger aircraft at the crash site in the Amur Region. — Reuters

2 dead as Cyprus battles wildfire in searing heat

An aerial view shows burnt houses as firefighters battle a forest fire in the Cypriot village of Souni, in the Limassol province. — AFP

Vanuatu island chief ‘very impressed’ by global climate decision

Climate Litigation and Justice counsel for Vanuatu, Dutch expert Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, speaks to the media after an ICJ session tasked with issuing the first Advisory Opinion (AO) on states’ legal obligations to address climate change, in The Hague. — AFP

Ex-Labour leader launches new UK political party

(FILES) Britain's former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses outside Islington Town Hall in London on June 5, 2024 after submitting his nomination papers to officially stand as an Independent candidate in Islington North for the July 4 general election. Former leftist Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced on July 24, 2025 that he was forming a new political party alongside another ex-member of Britain's ruling party, MP Zarah Sultana. They said the new outfit would be called Your Party. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Tides could help predict when huge icebergs break loose: Study

A huge iceberg breaking off was ‘imminent within the next weeks to months’.

Russian plane crashes in Russia's far east, nearly 50 people on board feared dead

FILE PHOTO: An An-24 aircraft of Angara Airlines lands at the airport of Irkutsk

People-smuggling gangs face tough UK sanctions

Nearly 24,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the Channel so far in 2025, the highest ever tally at this point in a year.

Greece to create new marine reserves to protect wildlife

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis deliver a speech, in Athens. — Reuters
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