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Syria’s president says he’s chosen to avoid dragging the country into a new and broader war pulling government forces out of a mainly Druze province in the south. 

The Pope has said he is deeply saddened after three people sheltering in Gaza’s only Catholic Church were killed by apparent Israeli tank fire. 

Sir Keir Starmer and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have signed their first treaty since the Second World War covering everything from mutual defence to migration and bilateral trade. 

Rescuers are trying to free a number of people who are still trapped on a bus which crashed in Somerset on Thursday afternoon with children on board. 

We spoke to Labour peer Helena Kennedy, who arranged the evacuation of more than 500 people from Afghanistan in 2021 and is still in contact with many in the country.

The Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent inquiry into the accidental release of personal details of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban as well as British spies and special forces. 

The British Prime Minister and German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, today signed a ‘Friendship Treaty’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the location chosen for its symbolic reference to a loving, and politically useful, royal marriage between the United Kingdom and Germany.

Mexico City officials have responded to anti-gentrification protests earlier this month in the nation’s captial.

At least 20 Palestinians have been killed near a US-backed aid group’s distribution centre in southern Gaza, as they were on their way to collect food.

We spoke to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an American Jewish leader who recently returned from meeting Syria’s President and has spoken of his hopes of improving relations between Israel and the new Syrian government.  

The Israeli military has struck the Syrian Defence ministry in the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus

The superinjunction which blocked the reporting of a data leak exposing the personal details of nearly 19 thousand Afghans who had applied to move to the UK has been criticised by the Prime Minister.

In America the Democrats are in crisis — leaderless, divided, and drifting after Donald Trump’s return to power, and on the left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Bernie Sanders and the Democrat’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are seizing the moment, but is their radicalism the way to beat Trump’s Maga bandwagon?

Staunch Trump supporters are questioning his decision to distance himself from those pushing to release government files on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of the president.

Donald Trump says he’s ‘disappointed’ that Vladimir Putin keeps knocking down buildings in Kyiv despite all the great conversations they are having about ending the war in Ukraine, as the First Lady Melania Trump keeps pointing out to him.