Rusijai nepaliaujamai bombarduojant Ukrainą, žuvo mažiausiai septyni žmonės, o daugiau nei 80 buvo sužeisti, pirmadienį pranešė pareigūnai.

Pasaulinė saugumo aplinka yra „nestabili“ ir ateinančiais metais situacija tikriausiai dar labiau prastės, perspėja vyriausiasis NATO pajėgų vadas Europoje. Visgi jis atkreipė dėmesį į Baltijos šalis ir pasikeitusį Rusijos elgesį – dėl NATO misijos „Eastern Sentry“ Maskva tapo „kur kas atsargesnė ir stengiasi vengti bepiločių orlaivių patekimo per sieną į Baltijos šalis ar Lenkiją“, rašo „The Guardian“.

A 10-year-old child and two 30-year-old women were on board the boat - which was carrying 105 people.

Relatives of the victims tell the BBC they are relieved to finally have a ruling 12 years after the crash.

John Healey's speech comes ahead of next month's Budget, as he faces pressure to bring down government borrowing costs.

Chancellor John Healey will set out his plans for UK taxes in October.

LIVERPOOL, England — Britain’s chief diplomat said Monday that the U.K. will not ditch its ban on directly engaging with Russian officials after Donald Trump invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 meeting in December. Speaking in The POLITICO Pub at Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband said it is for the U.S. to “make their own decisions” on inviting the Russian president to the summit in Miami later this year — but stressed the U.K. is unlikely to take the same approach next year. “We’ve had a long-standing policy not to have direct engagement at my level with the Russians since the invasion of Ukraine. We’re not changing that policy,” Miliband said when asked whether the greater engagement with Moscow is a good thing. Miliband said the decision is in part about showing solidarity with the Ukrainian people, adding: “Different countries make different decisions on these things.” The U.K. foreign secretary confirmed Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be at the Miami G20 later this year, but declined to “second guess the decisions” about who’s invited. Elsewhere in his interview, Miliband acknowledged that disagreements with the Trump administration over the future of the Chagos Islands were discussed when Burnham met Trump at the U.N. General Assembly earlier this month. “It’s pretty clear, as became apparent from that meeting, that the U.S. administration does not at the moment agree with the arrangement,” Miliband said, adding he and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio “talk a lot” about the way forward. Britain has agreed to cede sovereignty of the archipelago, home to the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia airbase, to Mauritius. A lease arrangement has been worked out to allow continued use of the base, but critics fear a strategic toehold risks falling into the orbit of China.

Pope Leo XIV encouraged compromise and urged warring parties to make concessions to secure peace in Ukraine during a closely watched speech about Europe in France. “Sadly, war has returned, even to Europe,” the pope said in the eastern city of Metz. “We need to commit ourselves to patient dialogue, to show courage in negotiation and to be willing to give up some positions for the greater good of peace.” The pope addressed European issues on his final day of an official visit to France, during which he held talks with President Emmanuel Macron, celebrated a large-scale mass in central Paris, and urged dialogue and compassion for migrants. In a speech delivered to a packed room, the pope did not specify what concessions he thought Kyiv or Moscow might have to make to secure peace. Russian forces are persistently bombing Ukraine and attempting to push forward in the Donetsk region, but the Kremlin’s military has so far failed to subjugate Kyiv after more than four and a half years of all-out war. The pontiff has taken an active role in recent months, pushing for an end to hostilities in Ukraine. In August, Leo sent Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the equivalent of his foreign minister, to Moscow to meet with officials including Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Another Vatican envoy is set to visit Russia this week. The visits highlight that Leo is adopting a more proactive role in trying to mediate over Ukraine, with Europe largely absent in diplomacy with Russia, though German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul did meet with Lavrov in New York at the weekend. The pontiff has repeatedly called for the end of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and expressed hope that negotiations would resume and lead to a diplomatic solution. In his speech on Europe, the pope also praised Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the European Union and a practicing Catholic. He also urged migrants to be welcomed “as if they were part of one’s own family,” at a moment when anti-immigration parties are on the rise across Europe, including in France where Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally is topping the polls. “We must grasp the historical significance of what is taking place, namely an unprecedented encounter between peoples and cultures, which calls us to rediscover our roots in new and creative ways, while at the same time listening carefully to others,” he said.

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Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 peopleA 10-year-old child and two women died ⁠attempting ​to cross the Channel on Monday, French authorities have said.Their deaths and the injuries of dozens of others in a large dinghy were probably caused by crushing, according to a French official. Continue reading...

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Annette Young is pleased to welcome Victor GAETAN, Senior International Correspondent for the National Catholic Register. He sees Pope Leo XIV's visit to France as more than a successful pastoral journey. He says it offers a window into the intellectual and political character of Leo's nascent papacy. What has been particularly striking is the breadth of his appeal: Leo has been welcomed by people of different faiths and across France's political spectrum. He also sees a direct intellectual connection between the present Pope and Leo XIII, particularly through Rerum Novarum, which confronted the social consequences of technological and economic transformation at the end of the XIX century.

In recent years, the Catholic Church has taken a growing stance in favour of climate action, culminating with the Vatican's signing of the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2022. As Pope Leo wraps up his four-day visit to France, FRANCE 24's Valerie Dekimpe looks at where religion and the environment meet. 

Sudan’s military is rejecting accusations from Ethiopia that Khartoum is backing armed groups fighting government forces in the north, calling the claims “baseless.”

Sheep took over Southwark Bridge in London on Sunday, 27 September, as the city hosted its annual Woolmen’s Sheep Drive.