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Heathrow Airport is to remain shut until midnight due to a large fire at a nearby electricity substation.A spokesperson said there was a "significant power outage across the airport" and "we do not have clarity on when power may be reliably restored". Passengers have been warned to stay away.Follow live updates on Heathrow closure"To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, we have no choice but to close Heathrow […]

Vladimir Putin will break any peace agreement with Ukraine that is not "defended" by an international coalition of forces, the British prime minister has said.Sir Keir Starmer was talking on Thursday as he visited a UK base to meet a group of senior military officers from more than 30 nations tasked with turning a political desire to support Kyiv into an actionable plan to help protect the country from land, […]

A French scientist has been denied entry into the US after he was found to have expressed an opinion about the Trump administration's research policy, the country's research minister has said.The unnamed researcher was on his way to a conference being held near Houston when he was subjected to a random check and his work computer and personal phone searched on 9 March, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reported. […]

China has executed four Canadians over the last few months, Canada's foreign affairs minister has said.Melanie Joly said she and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau asked for clemency in the case of the dual citizens, who were accused of drug-related charges. Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were because of drug crimes and noted China does not recognise dual citizenship."We strongly condemn the executions," Ms Joly said. "I […]

Prince William will arrive in Estonia later to show his support for the country and troops based there who are providing a deterrent to Russian aggression in the region.The Prince of Wales will fly to the capital Tallinn for the two-day trip on behalf of the UK government and the Foreign Office. His visit comes at a crucial time for reassuring Estonians of Britain's commitment to both their security and […]

The tone has changed totally. It's a remarkable turnaround from the Oval Office meltdown to the perfect phone call.President Trump is wholly transactional. His desire for give and take far outweighs any ideological instincts. He has no particular alignment to Ukraine or, for that matter, to Russia. He just wants a deal. Peace would stop the killing as he has said repeatedly. It would also allow for deals which can […]

Israel says it has launched a "limited ground operation" to retake part of a key corridor in Gaza.The move appeared to deepen a renewed Israeli offensive that shattered a ceasefire with Hamas that had begun in January. As part of the ceasefire, Israel had withdrawn from the Netzarim corridor, which bisected northern Gaza from the south and had been used by Israeli forces as a military zone. Image: A map showing […]

Police in India have arrested the parents of a man suspected of killing his wife and leaving her body in the boot of his car in London. Harshita Brella, 24, was found in her husband Pankaj Lamba's Vauxhall Corsa parked in Ilford, east London, in the early hours of 14 November. A post-mortem examination found she died from strangulation Surendra Chaudhary, deputy commissioner of police in Delhi, said Lamba's mother […]

The Kurdish armoured vehicle we're in is being peppered by stones and rocks. But this a good day.The soldiers we're with face far worse. Knifings and bombings feature regularly from the ISIS families detained in sprawling detention camps in northeast Syria.The Kurdish troops have guarded these camps packed with ISIS wives and relatives for more than six years. But since the toppling of the Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, attacks […]