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At least 33 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in floods that have limited access to more than half of the country's capital, Kinshasa.Ten deaths were confirmed on Sunday evening, adding to the 23 people already known to have died, the country's interior minister Jacquemin Shabani said on state television. Most of the deaths were down to walls that collapsed under the deluge after heavy rains, which […]

A group of scientists claims to have brought back to life a species of wolf that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago - but is it true?Here's all we know about the three pups created by Colossal Biosciences, a genetic engineering company which claims to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf. What does Colossal say?On Monday, Colossal posted a clip showing two of the pups, named Romulus and Remus (after […]

Donald Trump has said the US is having direct talks with Iran over its nuclear programme.The president has insisted Tehran cannot get nuclear weapons. He told reporters at the White House: "We're having direct talks with Iran, and they've started. It'll go on Saturday."We have a very big meeting, and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable.""Hopefully those talks will […]

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 30 people in Gaza, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials have said.Strikes overnight into Sunday hit a tent and a house in Khan Younis, killing five men, five women and five children, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies. Later on Sunday, at least two people were killed, and six others injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent […]

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 On Day 78, US correspondent Mark Stone is joined by former UK ambassador to the US, Sir Nigel Sheinwald. He was the British representative to the US between October 2007 and January 2012 and has dealt with both Republican and Democrat administrations. On this episode, the pair discuss whether Sir Keir Starmer has taken the right approach with President Trump and […]

The King and Queen have begun a three-day state visit to Italy, where they will celebrate the Catholic jubilee year, an event that only happens every 25 years. The trip will see Charles and Camilla attend a series of public and diplomatic events in the capital, Rome, and the city of Ravenna. This year, Rome expects to welcome three times its normal number of visitors - between 30 and 32 million, […]

Marine Le Pen made one thing abundantly clear. She is not going quietly.She may have been disgraced in a Paris courtroom, convicted of embezzlement, sentenced and barred from office for five years. But there was no sense of shame or regret in her speech to the party faithful. Nor would you expect there to be. She is the victim of an establishment stitch-up, she believes, or claims to, and the […]

The Pope has appeared before cheering crowds at the Vatican.It was the pontiff's first official public appearance since he was released from hospital a fortnight ago. Pope Francis, 88, had spent five weeks in Rome's Gemelli hospital as he was treated by doctors for a life-threatening bout of double pneumonia.The Pope, in what was a previously unannounced move, entered St Peter's Square in a wheelchair shortly before noon local time […]

Contemplating the turmoil sown by the return of President Trump, nobody could deny that the results of leadership elections in major nations matter to the rest of the world.Take just the members of the G7 - so-called rich, industrialised democracies. Italy elected Giorgia Meloni in 2022, confirming the rise of the far-right. She was not only Italy's first female leader, she was also the first from a neo-fascist party since […]