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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say in all major policy issues, including nuclear.

Uranium enrichment

Trump says Iran 'slowwalking' as Khamenei opposes nuclear proposal

A mourner places a candle at Taipei's Liberty Square to mark the 36th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989

Beijing slams Rubio 'attack' on China after Tiananmen Square remarks

No 'immediate peace'

Trump talks with Putin on Ukraine, Iran

Following Moscow trip

ECR Group expels Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser

Afghan refugees unload their belongings from a truck upon their arrival from Pakistan in May

Strict campaign

200,000 Afghans left Pakistan since deportations renewed

France is home to the largest Muslim community in the European Union

'Why this hatred': French town reels over killing of Tunisian man

South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung scored a thumping victory over conservative Kim Moon-soo, of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's former party

South Korea's new leader vows to 'heal wounds' with nuclear-armed North

An Australian woman accused of murdering three people by lacing their lunch with toxic mushrooms told a court she may have unwittingly used 'foraged' fungi in the dish

Australian murder suspect says lethal lunch may have contained 'foraged' mushrooms

Morning Roundup

Cologne evacuated after bomb discovery, Luxembourg football coach defends Rodrigues selection, and US tariffs come into effect

Major disruptions expected

Three WWII bombs to be defused in Cologne, 20,000 people evacuated

The trial of Osama Krayem is considered unique as the other jihadists involved in the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot are presumed dead

Sweden tries sole surviving jihadist over Jordan pilot burnt to death

Russia and Ukraine agreed on a large-scale swap of captured soldiers and exchanged their roadmaps to peace

Roadmaps to peace exchanged

Russia says no quick breakthrough in 'complex' Ukraine talks

Yulia Navalnaya says the team is doing 'our best' to keep reaching Russians on YouTube but the Kremlin is trying to block the Western platform

Preserving his legacy

Navalny widow launches TV channel to fight Russia 'censorship'

Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Hans ter Laag and Joop Willemsen were killed in 1982 while filming a documentary during El Salvador's civil war

Three Salvadoran ex-military convicted of wartime killings of Dutch reporters

Lee Jae-myung, the newly elected president of South Korea, faces a bulging in-tray

From trade to birth rates

The challenges facing South Korea's new leader Lee

Venezuela's Maduro condemns Ukraine 'terrorist' attacks in Russia

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (R) shakes hands with France's President Emmanuel Macron in Rome

French-Italian relations

Rivals Meloni and Macron seek to mend fences in Rome talks

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Elon Musk

A 'disgusting abomination'

Musk blasts Trump mega-bill days after farewell

Ecuador's National Assembly has given the green light for the establishment of foreign military bases in the country as it seeks international assistance in its battle against violent drug gangs

'Strategic cooperation'

As Ecuador battles gangs, lawmakers approve return of foreign military bases

Cuban migrants leave a center after receiving permission to cross Honduran territory in Danli, 100 km east of the capital Tegucigalpa, in March 2025

Amid fresh sanctions

Cuba warns US pressure could trigger migration surge

Palestinians mourn relatives killed near a US-backed aid center in the Rafah area, in the southern Gaza Strip

US-backed centre

27 killed as Israeli army opens fire near Gaza aid point

Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Trump to attend NATO summit in The Hague

After losing by a razor-thin margin in 2022, Lee Jae-myung was elected head of state in a landslide

Rags-to-riches story

Lee Jae-myung's rise from poverty to the South Korean presidency

All three major South Korean broadcasters projected Lee Jae-myung as the likely winner

South Korea's centre-left leader Lee wins presidency

Portuguese police are conducting new searches at the request of the German authorities

Disappeared 18 years ago

New police search in hunt for missing Madeleine McCann

The move to try the officer over the death of Nahel, who was of north African origin, comes as new tensions have emerged over racism and security in France

To be held in 2026

French policeman to go on trial over 2023 killing of teen that sparked riots

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the pushbacks of migrants -- declared illegal by a German court -- will continue in the name of 'public safety and order'

To 'protect public safety'

Germany's Merz defends migration crackdown after court setback

Political pandemonium

Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof resigns, will continue in caretaker capacity

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