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[ad_1] European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin "soon", as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the sanctions were the "right idea", and urged

[ad_1] Tabby WilsonBBC News andWyre DaviesBBC News, JeruselumReutersIsrael's Supreme Court has ruled that the state is failing to provide adequate food to Palestinian prisoners, and must take steps to improve their nutrition. The three-judge bench said on Sunday that the state was legally obligated to provide prisoners with enough nutrition to ensure "a basic level of existence".Thousands of Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails for years, including over terror

[ad_1] South Korea's government says it has reached an agreement with the US to release its citizens detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.The chief of staff of South Korea's president said a chartered plane would be sent to bring the detainees home if administration procedures were completed.Kang Hoon-sik said the authorities were trying to improve the visa system to prevent such incidents in the

[ad_1] Nikhil Inamdar & Geeta PandeyBBC News, Mumbai & DelhiAnahita Sachdev/BBCIt has been a year since Anjali was "digitally arrested" and lost 58.5m rupees Anjali's* nightmare began with a phone call that would cost her 58.5m rupees ($663,390).The caller claimed to be from a courier company, alleging that Mumbai customs had seized a drug parcel she was sending to Beijing. Anjali, a resident of Gurugram, a suburb of Indian capital

[ad_1] AFPTV/AFP via Getty ImagesThis screengrab taken from AFPTV shows Ryan Wesley Routh at a protest supporting Ukraine in April 2022This week, a man accused of plotting to assassinate US President Donald Trump last September will stand trial in Florida.The incident - which occurred just weeks after a bullet grazed Trump's ear in another assassination attempt in Pennsylvania - further underscored the issue of political violence in the months leading

[ad_1] Andrew HardingParis correspondentGetty ImagesPrime Minister François Bayrou (left) may be on his way out, after calling a confidence vote in himselfFrance's parliament – deadlocked for a year and more poisonously divided than it has been in decades – looks set to throw out yet another prime minister on Monday.But the acute sense of drama surrounding this latest vote of confidence inside Paris's Assemblée Nationale is counterbalanced by a despondent

[ad_1] Nick BeakeUS Verify Correspondent in Ellabell, Georgia EPA/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement handoutSome 400 state and federal agents gathered outside the factory complex before lining workers up insideA South Korean worker who witnessed a massive immigration operation at a car factory in Georgia has told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site and arrested hundreds.The man, who asked to remain anonymous, was at

[ad_1] Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent in BangkokBBC/Jonathan HeadThe BBC visited the Cambodian border where a conflict with Thailand has killed dozens and displaced thousandsRolls of razor wire now run through the middle of the village Cambodia calls Chouk Chey, and on through fields of sugar cane.Behind them, just over the border, tall black screens rise up from the ground, concealing the Thai soldiers who put them up.This is the

[ad_1] Huge crowds gathered at Tunisia's port on Sunday to welcome Greta Thunberg as her aid flotilla, bound for Gaza, docked at the port. The Swedish climate activist is travelling with 350 pro-Palestinian activists on boats stocked with aid that they are hoping to deliver to Palestinians in Gaza.Pictures from the Sidi Bou Said port show hordes of people surrounding the 22-year-old as she addressed the crowd. "We all know