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12 Aug 2025

EU makes summit plea to Trump

European Union leaders have appealed to US President Donald Trump to defend their security interests at a key summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later this week over the war in Ukraine. European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky plan to speak with Trump on Wednesday, before the summit in Alaska, amid fears that Washington, hitherto Ukraine’s leading arms supplier, may dictate unfavourable peace terms to Kyiv.

AP/Reuters

12 Aug 2025

Ukraine

11 Aug 2025

EU races to influence US ahead of Russia summit

European leaders and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky will speak to US President Donald Trump this week ahead of his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, amid fears Washington may dictate unfavourable peace terms to Ukraine. Trump announced last week he would meet Putin on August 15 in Alaska to negotiate an end to the 3.5-year war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Ukraine and its European allies fear that Trump, keen to claim credit for making peace and also hoping to seal lucrative joint business deals with Moscow, could align with Putin to cut a deal that would be deeply disadvantageous to Kyiv.

AP/Reuters

11 Aug 2025

Lebanon

06 Aug 2025

Hezbollah: Government plan to disarm a ‘grave sin’

Hezbollah has sharply criticized the Lebanese government’s decision to begin a process aiming to disarm the Iran-backed group this year, saying it “fully achieves” neighbouring Israel’s interests. Hezbollah also said in a statement it is ready for...

AP/Reuters

06 Aug 2025

Gaza

02 Aug 2025

US envoy working on new aid plan

US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy has visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an Israeli-backed American contractor whose efforts to deliver food to the hunger-stricken territory have been marred by violence and controversy. International experts warned this week that a “worst-case scenario of famine” is playing out in Gaza. Israel’s nearly 22-month military offensive against Hamas has shattered security in the territory of some 2 million Palestinians and made it nearly impossible to safely deliver food to starving people.

AP/Reuters

02 Aug 2025

Aviation

31 Jul 2025

Call for answers after air travel fail

A technical problem that affected over a hundred flights across UK airports was an isolated event with no evidence of malign activity, transport minister Heidi Alexander says, as airlines work to clear the backlog. National Air Traffic Services (NATS) restored its systems, with capacity returning to normal, late on Wednesday after switching to a back-up system following what it described as a radar-related failure.

AP/Reuters

31 Jul 2025

Gaza

29 Jul 2025

Trump: ‘We have to get the kids fed’

US President Donald Trump has expressed concern over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and urged Israel to get people food, seemingly recalibrating his stance on Gaza as images of emaciated children have sparked renewed worries about hunger in the war-torn territory. Trump, speaking in Scotland, said the US and other nations are giving money and food to Gaza but that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “got to sort of like run it”.

AP/Reuters

29 Jul 2025

USA

28 Jul 2025

Trump keeps transatlantic relations on course

US President Donald Trump has welcomed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to his golf resort in western Scotland for talks expected to range from their recent bilateral trade deal to the worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, the two governments say. Trump suggested his golf course in Scotland “furthers” the US-UK relationship.

AP/Reuters

28 Jul 2025

Inquiry

21 Jul 2025

Probe into 1984 miners clash

Britain says it will hold an inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave”, a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners in 1984 at the height of a year-long industrial dispute with Margaret Thatcher’s government. More than 5000 striking miners clashed with a similar number of riot police who had been drafted in from across the country at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield in northern England.

AP/Reuters

21 Jul 2025

Government

17 Jul 2025

Britain to lower voting age to 16

Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government has announced. The centre-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 to lower the voting age for elections to Britain’s Parliament. Scotland and Wales already let 16 and 17-year-olds vote in local and regional elections.

AP/Reuters

17 Jul 2025

Economy

16 Jul 2025

Reeves unveils plan to boost economy

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says she’ll cut red tape for banks and finance firms so that “informed risk-taking” can help kickstart Britain’s sluggish economy. The government is trying to regain the economic initiative after rocky weeks of costly u-turns and figures showing the UK economy contracted for two months running.

AP/Reuters

16 Jul 2025

Afghanistan

16 Jul 2025

Afghans secretly resettled in UK

Britain has set up a secret scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans, including many who helped British Forces, to the UK after a soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.

AP/Reuters

16 Jul 2025

USA

15 Jul 2025

Trump’s state visit unprecedented

US President Donald Trump is set to make an unprecedented second state visit to the UK in September, when he will be hosted by King Charles at Windsor Castle. The visit will take place from September 17 to 19, Buckingham Palace said. ”His Majesty the King will host the President and Mrs Trump at Windsor Castle,“ the palace said in a statement, adding that further details would be announced in due course.

AP/Reuters

15 Jul 2025

Ukraine

14 Jul 2025

Trump: Putin ‘plays nice, bombs everybody’

US President Donald Trump says he will send Patriot air-defence missiles to Ukraine, saying they are necessary to defend the country because Russian President Vladimir Putin “talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening”. Trump did not give a number of Patriots he plans to send to Ukraine, but he said the United States would be reimbursed for their cost by the European Union.

AP/Reuters

14 Jul 2025

Tragedy

12 Jul 2025

Fuel switch confusion before crash

A preliminary report has depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed and killed 260 people last month, after the plane’s engine fuel cut-off switches flipped almost simultaneously and starved the engines of fuel. The Air India flight — a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — crashed on June 12 and killed at least 260 people, including 19 on the ground, in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad. Only one passenger survived the crash, which is one of India’s worst aviation disasters.

AP/Reuters

12 Jul 2025

Ukraine

11 Jul 2025

Russian strike hits maternity hospital

A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has damaged a maternity hospital, authorities say, terrifying fleeing patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies. Three women and three newborns suffered acute stress and received medical help, according to Kharkiv’s regional prosecutors.

AP/Reuters

11 Jul 2025

Conflict

10 Jul 2025

Russia launches largest attack yet

Russia has fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks as Moscow intensifies its aerial and ground assault in the three-year war, Ukrainian officials say. Russia has recently sought to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defences by launching major attacks that include increasing numbers of decoy drones. The most recent one appeared aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s vital supply of Western weapons.

AP/Reuters

10 Jul 2025

Trade

08 Jul 2025

Asia spooked by Trump tariffs

Southeast Asia’s biggest economies are preparing to step up trade negotiations with US President Donald Trump and Washington after it hit them with steep tariffs, despite a last-ditch flurry of offers to boost imports and slash levies on US goods. Regional nations are among the hardest hit by Trump’s sweeping tariffs, as they rely on exports and manufacturing to drive economies collectively worth more than $3.8 trillion, some helped by supply chain shifts from China.

AP/Reuters

08 Jul 2025

Ukraine

03 Jul 2025

Kyiv concern over arms halt

A decision by Washington to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine has prompted warnings by Kyiv that the move would weaken its ability to defend against intensifying airstrikes and battlefield advances. Ukraine said it had called in the acting US envoy to Kyiv to underline the importance of military aid from Washington continuing, and cautioned that any cut-off would embolden Russia in its war in Ukraine.

AP/Reuters

03 Jul 2025

Weather

01 Jul 2025

UK, Europe swelter in heatwave

A heat wave is covering much of Europe, with spectators queuing at the All England Club for the Wimbledon tennis tournament to tourists at the Colosseum in Rome and Seville in Spain sweltering in the hot conditions. Heat warnings were issued for parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and the UK, with new highs expected on Wednesday before rain should bring respite to some areas.

AP/Reuters

01 Jul 2025

Middle East

30 Jun 2025

Trump: ‘Make the deal in Gaza!’

US President Donald Trump has urged progress in ceasefire talks in the 20-month war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, though some weary Palestinians are skeptical about the chances, with Israel issuing a new mass evacuation order for parts of northern Gaza. Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was set to travel to Washington this week for talks on a ceasefire, an Israeli official said, and plans were being made for Netanyahu to travel there in the coming weeks, a sign there may be movement on a deal.

AP/Reuters

30 Jun 2025

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