Media captionTrump on Thursday called on Russia to end what he called its “destabilising behaviour” US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. They will hold a longer meeting later, and say they want to repair ties […]
Image copyright EPA Image caption The collapse happened in a district near Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius Rescuers in southern Italy are trying to find eight people missing after an apartment block collapsed in Naples. Italian media say two families were living in the four-storey building that collapsed in Torre Annunziata district. Two children are among […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Cyprus has been divided since 1974 The latest talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus have ended without a deal. The Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities have been split since conflict erupted in 1974. A UN buffer zone separates the two sides. A round of UN-backed talks in Switzerland, which began in […]
Media captionTrump on Thursday called on Russia to end what he called its “destabilising behaviour” US President Donald Trump is to have his first face-to-face encounter with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit in Germany’s city of Hamburg. They have both said they want to repair ties, which were damaged by the Syria […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Police used pepper spray and water cannon Police and protesters have clashed in the German city of Hamburg where the G20 is due to start on Friday. Organisers had cancelled the march following the violence, police said, but many demonstrators remained on the streets. At least one person appeared to […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Renault’s relatively low-cost electric car is a popular choice among electric buyers France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”. Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption Julio Iglesias has won several top music awards for his romantic ballads DNA test results make it almost certain that veteran crooner Julio Iglesias is the father of a 40-year-old Spanish man, a lawyer acting for the man says. There is a 99.99% DNA match, the Seville lawyer for Javier […]
Media captionThe woman is kicked down a flight of stairs in the CCTV footage When CCTV video emerged of an unprovoked attack on a woman at a Berlin subway station last year, it shocked Germans and went viral. The man who kicked her down the stairs at Hermannstrasse was arrested and has now been given […]
Media captionTrump: Russia should join “the fight against common enemies and in defence of civilisation itself” US President Donald Trump has called on Russia to stop “destabilising” Ukraine and other countries and end support for “hostile regimes” such as those in Syria and Iran. Speaking in the Polish capital Warsaw, Mr Trump urged Russia to […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption European Council president Donald Tusk shakes hands with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe The European Union and Japan have formally agreed an outline free-trade deal. The agreement paves the way for trading in goods without tariff barriers between two of the world’s biggest economic areas. However, few specific details are […]
