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German climate activists have glued themselves to streets all over Berlin this morning in a bid to bring traffic to a standstill. Members of the group Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany over the past year to pressure the government into taking further action against climate change. Activists have glued themselves to the

US troops have carried out an evacuation of American embassy staff from Sudan’s capital as fighting between the Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary group continues for a ninth day. About 70 American nationals have been successfully flown from a landing zone at the US Embassy in Khartoum to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia, an

A German publisher has apologised for publishing an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher. Funke magazines is also firing the editor of Die Aktuelle over the “tasteless and misleading article” which it now says should “never have appeared”. Managing director Bianca Pohlmann said the piece “does not in any way correspond to the standards of journalism

People in Bangkok and other areas of Thailand have been warned not to go outside due to extreme heat. It hit 42C (100F) in the capital on Saturday, but the national weather service said the heat index – what the temperature feels like when combined with humidity – hit a record 54C (129F). April is

Intense violence continues to rock Sudan a week after fighting first erupted between its army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary force. More than 400 people have been killed and at least 3,500 injured in the violence, according to the United Nations. The capital city Khartoum remains at the epicentre of the conflict, with

The West has committed to support Ukraine’s battle against the Russian invasion, but what can Ukraine realistically expect to achieve with its forthcoming offensive? Will the West continue to perpetuate an unwinnable war for Ukraine, or is the forthcoming battle simply a way to move the frontline in anticipation of some form of truce or

A competition encouraging children to kill as many cats as possible has been cancelled following a backlash. A prize of £124 was on offer for the youngster who managed to shoot the most feral felines in New Zealand. But critics of the North Canterbury Hunting Competition feared household pets could end up being targeted because

India is on track to surpass China as the most populated country in the world, according to United Nations data. India is expected to have have 1.4286 billion people compared with China‘s 1.4257 billion by the middle of 2023, the UN population dashboard indicated – that is 2.9 million more people in the South Asian

Vladimir Putin has visited occupied areas of Ukraine that Russia illegally annexed last year, the Kremlin has said. The Russian president attended a military command meeting in Kherson region and visited national guard in Luhansk. It is not clear when the visits took place. Putin visits Ukraine to ‘listen to Russian troops’ – Ukraine war

A US embassy convoy in Sudan was fired upon in a “reckless” and “irresponsible” incident, the US secretary of state said. Following Monday’s incident, Antony Blinken phoned the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, and Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to warn them that any danger

Abdel-Fattah al Burhan’s voice was jovial when he first answered the phone. My first question – “are you safe?” – was met with “thank God, we are well and in his safety”. The commander-in-chief has been Sudan’s de facto president since ousting his former ally and longtime military dictator Omar al Bashir after prolonged pro-democracy

The head of Sudan’s army has told Sky News his troops will “definitely” defeat an attacking paramilitary group, but he is open to negotiations. At least 97 people have been killed and 365 injured over the weekend in clashes between the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Tensions have escalated since a power pact between

The former home of a German cannibal has been destroyed in a fire, police say. Armin Meiwes was convicted almost two decades ago of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead, with both crimes having been committed at the half-timber house. The cause of the overnight fire in the German town of Rotenburg an

One of Vladimir Putin’s biggest critics has been jailed in Russia for 25 years after being found guilty of treason. Vladimir Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and former journalist who holds Russian and British passports, spent years as a politician opposing the Russian president. He was accused of treason and of discrediting the military

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been moved from intensive care following treatment for a lung infection, his brother has said. Berlusconi, who has chronic leukaemia, had been hospitalised for treatment and is now on a regular ward at a Milan hospital. “All okay, he’s out of intensive care,” his brother Paolo told the Corriere

An Indian gangster-turned-politician has been shot dead on live television. Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were being escorted for a medical check-up in handcuffs at the time of the attack. Both men were accosted by camera crews – and police say the gunmen who killed the pair had been masquerading as journalists. Three people

Germany has begun shutting down its three remaining nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition towards renewable energy. The shutdown of the Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II reactors, which was agreed upon more than a decade ago, has proved divisive. Other industrialised countries – such as the UK, US, Japan, China and

The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are now members of NATO, so are probably beyond Russia’s grasp – for now – but with the war in Ukraine dominating world headlines, Russia has been quietly increasing its influence and control over Belarus. Is Belarus the next target on Putin’s radar, and is there anything

Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University. R21/Matrix-M was shown to be up to 80% effective in a trial involving 400 children in Burkina Faso, published in September. Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year, most of them children in Africa, and

Alexei Navalny, the jailed critic of Vladimir Putin, is grappling with a mystery ailment in prison that could be the result of a slow-acting poison, his spokesperson has suggested. The opposition politician has reportedly lost 8kg in weight in just over two weeks and an ambulance was called for him over the weekend. Mr Navalny