International

Pope Francis has refused to respond to claims by a former Vatican diplomat who has called on him to resign. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano also accused the Pope of covering up reports of sexual abuse by a US cardinal. READ MORE:…

Extra police have been sent to Chemnitz in eastern Germany after hundreds of far-right protesters marched through the city centre and scuffles broke out. A far-right football fan group called Kaotic Chemnitz called supporters on to the…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's win in last month's polls has been upheld by Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court. The opposition MDC Alliance had brought the legal challenge saying the vote was marred by "mammoth theft and fraud", but this…

Tributes from former US presidents and across the political spectrum have poured in for Republican Senator John McCain, who has died aged 81. Barack Obama, who beat him to the White House in 2008, said they had shared a "fidelity to…

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has reportedly entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors in New York. Mr Cohen, 51, is tipped to plead guilty to felony charges including tax fraud and campaign finance…

Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has been found guilty on five tax fraud charges at his trial in Virginia. He was also convicted on one count of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, and two bank fraud charges. Read more:…

At least 29 children have been killed and 30 wounded in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. The children were travelling on a bus that was hit at a market in Dahyan, in the…

The US is to impose sanctions on Russia after determining that it used nerve agent against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK in March. The move was announced on Wednesday by the US state department. READ MORE:…

Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will be a leader for all Zimbabweans in a call for unity after rows broke out over his election victory. The president appealed for peace and promised an independent investigation into the military after six…

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos has told the BBC illegal construction contributed to one of the country's worst-ever wildfire disasters. He said building by residents between wooded areas was a "crime" that had resulted in blocking…

The US and EU have agreed to avoid an all-out trade war and work to lower tariffs, in talks that US President Donald Trump hailed as "a very strong understanding". He and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker announced a "new…

Survivors of the wildfires that have killed at least 74 people in Greece have described how they were forced into the sea by a blaze that "struck like a flamethrower". "The flames were chasing us all the way to the water," said one…

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 are missing in flooding following the collapse of an under-construction dam in south-east Laos. Workers found the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province was partially damaged on…

US President Donald Trump says he is ready to intensify his trade war with China by slapping tariffs on all $500bn of imports from the country. "I'm ready to go to 500," he said in an interview with the CNBC channel. READ MORE:…

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has raided a space research facility after a suspected leak of hypersonic missile secrets to Western spies. The state space agency Roskosmos said its security staff were co-operating with FSB…