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Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, made a flying visit to Donald Trump’s Florida golf club on Saturday, during which the US president-elect praised the far-right leader for “really taking Europe by storm”.

The pair were photographed in the grand ballroom of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

The five-hour visit comes a few …

Cristy Thomas began to panic as she called 911 for the second time on a warm October day but couldn’t get through. She anxiously watched the plume of black smoke pouring over her rural community in central

California

Then she heard a familiar ping.

Watch …

Ukrainian armed forces have begun a surprise offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Ukrainian officials and Russian military bloggers.

Video showed

Ukrainian armoured columns advancing across snowy fields

January is always a time for new beginnings and fresh thinking. But with Donald Trump heading for the White House and a new(ish) Labour government in charge of a faltering UK economy, the onset of 2025 seems especially portentous.

Forecasting is a mug’s game, as former Bank of England governor …

Shortly after the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Jihad Abdo, a well-known actor in the Arab world, left his home in Damascus.

After being quoted criticizing government corruption in a

Los Angeles Times article

On Golba Hill on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), just below a cluster of colourfully decorated homes, there are rows and rows of premium marijuana plants. Gleaming like green gold in the Caribbean sun, they lead up to a crudely constructed hut where cannabis farmer …

Heavy overnight snow in Wales and northern England is causing travel disruption as the new year gets off to a frosty start.

Two amber weather warnings from the Met Office have been put in place in England and Wales. Snowfall of 3cm to 7cm is predicted, with freezing rain likely …

Labour must reverse years of ­political failure on extremism to stop it ­fuelling more disorder, violence and terrorism in Britain, leading figures have said.

Neil Basu, the former head of counter-terrorism policing, and Dame Sara Khan, previously the government’s counter-extremism tsar, warned that proposals

unveiled last month

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian and North Korean forces had suffered heavy losses in battles in

  southern

  Russia.

  “In battles yesterday and today near just one village, Makhnovka, in Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry …

Further weather warnings have been issued for England and Scotland amid heavy snow and freezing rain that has been forecast this weekend.

A new yellow weather warning has been issued for rain, affecting Wales, north-west England, east Midlands and the west Midlands.

Meanwhile, another yellow warning was also issued on …