Category Politics

The search for Madeleine McCann will resume in Portugal, close to where she was last seen in 2007. A new phase of the search began on Tuesday, with teams clearing a well and removing overgrowth around abandoned buildings a few…

Police have confirmed there is “no intelligence” to link the deaths of two Scots in a Spanish bar to recent crime in mid-Scotland. Two men, believed to be Eddie Lyons Jr and Ross Monaghan, died after a gunman opened fire…

Russian forces’ attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, which left at least four people dead and many wounded, was described as “brutal” by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Several rockets hit homes and a medical facility in the northeastern…

Liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung has been named president of South Korea, according to reports. South Korean media including Yonhap News Agency and SBS Television reported on Wednesday morning that Mr. Lee had won the election. The leading conservative candidate,…

Liberal Party candidate Lee Jae-myung is expected to win South Korea’s snap presidential election, according to a joint exit poll conducted on Tuesday. The poll was conducted two months after his rival, then-conservative President Yoon Seok-yeol, was ousted from power…

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders has pulled his party out of the Netherlands’ ruling coalition over disagreements over tougher immigration rules, sparking a political crisis and potentially ending Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s 11-month rule. Mr Wilders announced his decision in a…

An Australian woman accused of killing three of her ex-husband’s relatives using poisonous mushrooms told a court on Tuesday that she admitted to having death caps in the meal she cooked that turned fatal. However, Erin Patterson says “most” of…

Delegations from Ukraine and Russia have concluded their latest peace talks in Turkey, which lasted just over an hour, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian state media reported. In his speech in Vilnius, Lithuania, Mr. Zelensky noted that both sides…

The death toll after a car ploughed into crowds at Liverpool’s victory parade has risen to more than 100, police have said. Four people remained in hospital on Monday, a week after the incident on Water Street in the city…

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine will begin a second round of direct talks in just two weeks, although hopes for significant progress in ending the three-year conflict are slim. The meeting in Istanbul came after a series of serious attacks…