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Greece’s conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has secured another four-year term in power following a landslide victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. With 91% of votes counted on Sunday evening, his centre-right New Democracy party was leading with 40.5% of the vote and 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament. The figure is more than 20 points clear

Ukraine is in a strong battlefield position against invading Russian forces but the exile of a rebel mercenary leader to neighbouring Belarus poses a fresh potential threat, a former British Army chief has told Sky News. While Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been “wounded” by the short-lived rebellion and his frontline troops are demoralised, Lord

After a year and a half of unrelenting gloom, finally news for Ukrainians to celebrate. Open conflict between their enemies and the prospect of much more. Ukrainians have always predicted this war would be the end of Vladimir Putin. Ukraine war latest: Putin calls rebellion ‘treason’ Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video

The boss of Irish broadcaster RTE has been suspended amid a controversy over misreporting the salary of its highest paid star. Director general Dee Forbes was due to step down next month but was suspended on Wednesday, RTE’s board revealed. It comes a day after it apologised and admitted Ryan Tubridy had received payments totalling

Billionaire technology rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Twitter owner Musk, 51, said on his social media platform he was “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, 39. The Facebook founder and Meta chief executive and chairman then captioned a post “send me location” to

A court in Germany will deliver its verdict later today in a landmark case against a 37-year-old woman accused of crimes against humanity and aiding and abetting genocide in one of the first cases of its kind against former members of Islamic State. The defendant, known as “Nadine K” allegedly enslaved a 22-year-old Yazidi woman

Police are searching the headquarters of the 2024 Paris Olympics organisers as part of a probe into suspected corruption. The Paris organising committee said in a statement that a search is under way at its offices in the Saint-Denis suburb of the French capital, and that “Paris 2024 is co-operating with the investigators to facilitate

Pakistan’s prime minister has declared a national day of mourning for those who died when a fishing trawler packed with people sank off the coast of Greece. Up to 750 men, women and children from Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian territories and Pakistan were on board the vessel trying to reach Europe. More than 500 people

Can Ukraine’s counteroffensive prevail without combat air cover, and will the West come to regret not providing Ukraine with such battle-winning capability? Although the West has provided a wealth of financial and military support to Ukraine to help combat the illegal invasion of Russian forces, it has been reluctant to provide the modern Western air

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is among a group of African leaders in Ukraine on a peace mission. The presidents of Zambia, Senegal, Comoros, South Africa and Egypt’s prime minister are there, alongside senior officials from Uganda and Congo-Brazzaville. They met President Zelenskyy and are expected to travel to St Petersburg in Russia later on

The Irish arm of supermarket Iceland has been ordered to remove imported frozen animal products from its stores. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served a notice on Metron Stores Limited – which trades as Iceland Ireland – to withdraw items brought into the country since 3 March this year. The products include meat

The world’s most famous early human ancestor could walk upright like a modern-day human thanks to fully bendable knee joints, research suggests. ‘Lucy’ was from an extinct ape-like species that lived in Africa more than three million years ago. She was dug up in Ethiopia in 1974, and at the time was the most complete

Belarus has started to receive tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, its leader has said. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian state TV that his country is taking delivery of the weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “We

Ukrainian forces are probing Russian defences along the frontline as they prepare to commit their new NATO-standard tanks to the fray. The highly anticipated counteroffensive is under way and in a “tidying up” phase, according to a military expert, as Ukraine seeks to prepare the battlefield for a big push when the time arises. Ukraine

A bus driver was driving too fast when the vehicle crashed in Australia, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others, police have alleged. Brett Button was arrested after mandatory hospital tests and had been in police custody but was released on bail when he appeared at Cessnock Local Court on Tuesday. He appeared in

The West cannot stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, the country’s supreme leader has said. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking on Sunday as tensions continue to mount over the country’s nuclear work. In words reported by state media, he said: “Talks about Tehran’s nuclear weapons is a lie and [the West] know it. “We do

Counteroffensive action against Russian forces is under way, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, with troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Speaking at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, Zelenskyy was responding to Vladimir Putin’s comment that Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses”. Mr Zelensky said: “The counteroffensive,

Iran has been supplying Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant that could be fully operational by early next year, the White House has said. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby added that the White House is releasing satellite imagery of the “planned location” of the manufacturing plant in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had pleaded for military aid, and the West responded. The stage was set for a spring offensive in the latest phase of Ukraine‘s efforts to liberate its lands. However, weeks have passed since modern tanks and weapons were delivered to Ukraine, providing invaluable time for Russia to put together robust physical defences.