Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of Russian military intelligence, was taken to hospital after being targeted by an unknown assailant

An excoriating report by the UK Covid-19 inquiry says Boris Johnson failed to appreciate the calamity and that lockdowns have left ‘lasting scars’ on society

Pugilist who lived through ‘the Greatest’s’ humble beginnings to global fame, dies aged 82

A row over a tribal leader’s death in a special forces raid in Syria has highlighted the complexity and confusion of America’s hunt for Islamic State

Does the Donald know that there’s a new master negotiator in town? Of course he does, he taught the apprentice everything he knows, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Duke of York is listed as a passenger on the disgraced financier’s aircraft, according to documents released by the US House oversight committee

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, says the incident which disrupted flights at Copenhagen airport is linked to recent incursions in Poland and Romania

Richard Moore said Russia was unlikely to win on battlefield, as his agency launched call to recruit spies

Vincent Kearney was the corporation’s Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent when he was the victim of unlawful surveillance

Karen Attiah says she was dropped by newspaper after 11 years for addressing political violence, race and gun control

American boxer received medal from Park Si-hun 35 years after Seoul final, a result so fiercely criticised that the backlash left South Korean with depression

The French president was always aware of the perils his country faced. Now, says his biographer, he can only hope his worst prophecies won’t come true

Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004

Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004

Berlin seeks to streamline the bloc’s seven-year budget without increasing its overall size

After a weekend of record Russian drone strikes, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, said Ukraine would be able to defend itself with ‘long-range fire’

The hemlines were high and the diamonds hefty as the world’s second-richest fiancee and her entourage stormed the Seine. Formez vos bataillons, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The attack on the northern Sumy region comes hours after Kyiv and Moscow concluded talks in Istanbul Nine people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a minibus carrying civilians in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region on Saturday, the local military administration said, hours after Kyiv and Moscow held their first direct peace talks since 2022. The bus, which was attacked near the city of Bilopillya while travelling towards Sumy, was “targeted by the Russians”, the military administration said. Continue reading...