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Mainstream and social media outlets reported on Friday that a batch of equipment sent to a Russian drone unit by volunteers was filled with plastic explosives.

Labour has mothballed plans to make it easier to legally change gender, The Times has learnt, in a step to counter Reform UK’s surge in the polls.

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on Sunday, severing Soviet-era ties amid heightened security after the suspected sabotage of several subsea cables and pipelines.

In August 2024, I resigned over the UK government’s refusal to halt arms sales to Israel amid the bombardment of Gaza. This decision followed over a year of internal lobbying and whistleblowing. My resignation made headlines, and weeks later, the new Labour government announced it would finally suspend arms sales to Israel. While this was welcome, it came far too late. Israel has continued to commit atrocities in Gaza as the UK stands by, unwilling to act.

Sales of Tesla cars slumped in five European countries in January, but the decline has been particularly sharp in France – with a drop of 63 percent.

Both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II dismissed Trump’s call to resettle 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza and for the U.S. to take ownership of the enclave, but Trump claims that they would eventually accept it.

The Left Party says "there shouldn't be any billionaires." With Germany gearing up for an election, the far-left force has launched a new tax plan — though it will most likely never get a chance to implement it.

Though Putin has not commented on the New York Post story so far, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov used ambiguous language when addressing the matter to reporters on Sunday, saying that there were “many different communications” being conducted “through many different channels” and that he was unable either to confirm or deny that the call had taken place.

China's proposal to turn the former Royal Mint building into Europe's largest embassy was rejected by Tower Hamlets council before Secretary of State Angela Rayner called them in and announced she would make the final decision in October.

Waving flags and carrying placards, protesters representing Tibetan, Uyghur, Chinese and Hong Kong rights groups rallied on Saturday against China’s proposed ‘mega-embassy’ in London, voicing fears that Beijing would use the building to harass and monitor dissidents living abroad.

According to Zelenskyy, intelligence reports confirm that Moscow is forming new divisions and expanding military production capabilities. He emphasized that this development reflects Russia’s intent to continue the war rather than seek negotiations

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Rojava vs Turkey was organised by several lawyer organisations and the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES). Representatives of the Turkish government were absent. According to the organisers, the Turkish government had been invited but refused to participate, resulting in a “trial in absentia”.

Users of Apple’s iOS devices in the EU got access this week to a porn app for the first time, called Hot Tub.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government, but also urged Congo’s president to directly negotiate with them.

Its "reconquest" of the EU will be under the banner of "Make Europe Great Again," and its leaders say Donald Trump’s recent return to the White House signals it is time for Europe to change. “We are living in an historic age, and my message to all the old leaders from Macron to Scholz, to your own Pedro Sanchez: It's your time. It's over now. They are history,” Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV party in The Netherlands told an audience of around 2,000 people on Saturday.

“I always say where I come from in Churchill, we don’t have any homeless people. Anybody take a guess why?” Daudrich is heard saying on a video of the meeting posted on social media.

“When there’s serious repercussions for a bad lifestyle, people smarten up very quickly. So my plan is to import 10 polar bears and let them go in front of the (legislature) ... and let them have at ‘er.”

A Ukrainian military commander has announced the successful use of the country’s first laser weapon on the battlefield, revealing that it has effectively targeted specific objects.

“I will repeat: laser technologies are already striking certain targets at certain altitudes,” Kyiv’s Unmanned Systems Forces commander Vadym Sukharevskyi stated.

No further details regarding the laser weapon’s deployment, including the date and location, were provided.

The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on February 8, the region's operators said.

Sweden said Friday it wants to tighten its gun laws, following a lone gunman’s mass shooting of 10 people Tuesday with his licensed firearms at an education center in Orebro, about 200 kilometers west of Stockholm.