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The summit was announced earlier in the week to involve European leaders, but takes on a new focus with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attending, shortly after an explosive meeting Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.

While visiting the V&A Waterfront in the shadow of Table Mountain, Cape Town, Rachel Reeves chanced upon a boy playing a giant game of chess with his father. Unable to resist, the chancellor, a teenage chess whizz, began offering her advice to the child. He ended up three pieces down.

Reeves, 46, who was in South Africa for a meeting of the G20 finance ministers, left the pair to it. “It was a lost cause,” she added.

Ten months after a dramatic security lockdown at Billund Airport, a 38-year-old Russian man has been formally charged in connection with an explosion and a bomb scare that disrupted travel for thousands.

It involves removing a patient's tooth, usually the canine, installing a plastic optical lens inside it, and then implanting the whole thing into the eye.

Jet fighters armed with nuclear weapons could be posted to Germany as Emmanuel Macron discusses Ukraine’s defence with Donald Trump

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu on Friday, local and civil society leaders said, the latest ground gained since a major escalation of their yearslong fighting with government forces.

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What happens on election day? Polling stations open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (0700 GMT-1700 GMT). Germans can also vote by postal ballot, but their ballot must arrive by the time polling stations close on election day to be counted. When will we know the winner? Vote-counting will begin immediately after voting ends, and the general picture of the outcome should be clear very quickly thanks to exit polls. A final official result is expected early Monday. Who are the contenders? Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, of the center-left Social Democrats; Friedrich Merz of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party; current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, of the environmentalist Greens; and Alice Weidel, of the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

"You can't take our country — and you can't take our game," Trudeau wrote on X.

Ambassador says U.S. recognizes Canada's 'progress' in protecting border, tackling fentanyl

Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations

"We call our masses, our nation, and free people around the world in a global movement against the plans to uproot our Palestinian people, in the coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to march against the plan of the occupation and its supporters," Hamas said in a statement.