Ukraine will not accept US-Russia talks outcome if not involved, Zelenskyy says We’re also now hearing directly from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on the US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia. In comments reported by the Associated Press and Reuters, he said Ukraine won’t take part in US-Russia talks this week on ending the war and…

Five suspected Islamist terrorists accused of kidnapping and torturing four French journalists covering the war in Syria have gone on trial in Paris. The men include the French jihadi Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, who is serving life imprisonment for an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2019 in which four people died. The five…

Lib Dems: ‘Sad’ that Badenoch has chosen to ‘parrot Trump’s dangerous rhetoric’ In a reaction to Kemi Badenoch’s speech in London at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, the Liberal Democrats deputy leader Daisy Cooper has accused the Tory leader of “competing with Farage to fawn over Donald Trump” and choosing to “parrot Trump’s…

Elon Musk’s Doge pushes to access taxpayer data from IRS Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) is making an unprecedented push for access to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that houses detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the US, raising alarms over privacy, security, and government overreach, The Washington Post…

A police cordon outside the Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt in Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA A police cordon outside the Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt in Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Police continue to search River Thames for suspect over Friday’s fatal shooting of Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough A woman shot dead at a Kent…

A group of more than 900 Labour members and trade unionists, including MPs and peers, have accused the government of copying the “performative cruelty” of the Conservatives in its migration and asylum policy. In a joint statement, they singled out the Home Office’s decision, revealed last week, to refuse citizenship to anyone who arrives in…

M23 rebels have captured and occupied Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Congolese government has confirmed, days after the Rwanda-backed militia launched an attack. In a statement posted on X, the DRC communications ministry said it was monitoring the situation “marked by the entry of the Rwandan army…

Chlorinating drinking water at levels common in the United States and European Union probably increases the risk of several cancers, a new analysis of recent research from across the globe finds. The process of disinfecting water with chlorine creates trihalomethane (THM), a byproduct found in virtually all public drinking water systems across the US and…

Cyclone Zelia became the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in 2025, hitting north-west Australia on Valentine’s Day as a category 4 system. It brought damaging winds of 130mph and heavy rainfall, with 440mm of rain falling in two days. Prior to landfall, Zelia affected southern Indonesia, including Bali, with winds of more than 45mph.…

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has met some of the country’s top business leaders, including the Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, as he attempts to halt an economic slump in the world’s second-largest economy. Xi met Ma, who was at the centre of a crackdown on the tech industry in recent years, as well as the bosses…