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The Serbian ambassador to Britain has said critics should "wait for the results" of an investigation after claims an illegal sonic weapon was used against protesters earlier this month.He told The World With Yalda Hakim that no illegal weapon was used at the anti-government protest in Belgrade and that "independent experts" had been invited to investigate. "According to statements of our government officials… nothing [illegal] was used that day," Goran […]

A BBC News correspondent has been deported from Turkey after being detained for around 17 hours, the corporation has said.Mark Lowen had been in the country to report on widespread protests over the arrest of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. The BBC said authorities had accused Mr Lowen of "being a threat to public order" and had taken him from his hotel on Wednesday before making him leave the country via […]

At least six people have died and dozens of others have been rescued after a tourist submarine sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt.Nine of those rescued were injured after the vessel sank near Hurghada, two municipal officials said. Sky's US partner NBC News, citing the Russian embassy in Cairo, reported four Russian citizens were among those who had died.The submarine, called Sindbad, was carrying 45 passengers, […]

Emmanuel Macron has said Russia is reinterpreting what was agreed in the Black Sea ceasefire talks - as he met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace in Paris.Ukraine and Russia agreed to a tentative ceasefire brokered by the US involving the Black Sea and strikes on energy infrastructure on Tuesday. But drone strikes were reported just hours after the US reached the deals separately with each country, […]

A vehicle has been found in the hunt for four American soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania, the US Army said on Wednesday.The search for the missing soldiers - who were at the Pabrade training ground near the Lithuanian border with Belarus - is ongoing. Battalions of US soldiers have been based in the military camp since 2019, in rotations."The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, […]

Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, has declared Khartoum is "free" and his forces have retaken the capital after nearly two years of fighting.The Sudanese army has been battling to oust its rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from a last foothold in the capital, although the war looks far from over. In videos posted on social media, General Burhan is seen walking with his troops through the presidential […]

A man has been found dead after falling into a sinkhole in South Korea, officials have said.Measuring roughly 20m (66ft) deep and 20m wide, the sinkhole appeared on Monday afternoon at an intersection in the Myeongil-dong neighbourhood in eastern Seoul. Emergency officer Kim Chang Seob said it swallowed a man who was on a motorbike and injured a woman who was driving a van over the site as the ground […]

South Korea is facing "snowballing damage" from some of its worst ever wildfires that have killed at least 23 people and forced 27,000 to evacuate. The blazes have destroyed a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple, houses, factories and vehicles, and burned more than 43,000 acres. Among the dead was the pilot of a helicopter fighting the wildfires who was killed in a crash, Yonhap news agency reported. Image: Pic: Yonhap/Reuters Image: Smoke and […]

Words. Lots of them.Two statements from the White House - one about negotiations with Ukraine, another about negotiations with Russia. A version from Ukraine's president and another from the Kremlin.Follow live: Black Sea ceasefire deal reached after Saudi talks Datawrapper This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the […]