Elon Musk taunts Andrew Tate after tweet blaming ‘The Matrix’ for trafficking arrest
Andrew Tate has been arrested on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group
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Body of former pope Benedict to lie in state at Vatican before funeral
Catholics will on Monday be able to pay their respects in the Vatican to former pope Benedict XVI, whose body will lie in state for three days at St Peter’s Basilica before his funeral.
Zelenskiy and Putin signal desire to break war’s deadlock in new year
There has been little movement in the frontlines for weeks, and there are signs Russia lacks offensive combat powerRussia’s war on Ukraine enters its second calendar year at a delicate point. It is six weeks after the liberation of Kherson and there ha…
Swamps, forests and shelling: new year on Ukraine’s northern frontline
Amid talk of Russia reinvading from the north, volunteer units of the remote Sumy region represent the first line of defenceOn New Year’s Eve in a patch of forest along the north-east border with Russia, a unit of Ukrainian territorial defence forces s…
Pope Francis prays for Benedict XVI at new year mass as Vatican prepares to mourn former pontiff
Francis as the Madonna to accompany ‘our beloved’ Pope Emeritus Benedict ‘on his passage from this world to God’ during New Year’s Day mass
Benedict XVI: thousands expected to pay respects to former pope
Benedict’s body displayed in chapel of the Vatican monastery and will lie in state at St Peter’s Basilica Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to former pope Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday, in the days leading up to his funeral th…
1 million people gather on Champs-Élysées in Paris to see in new year
Parisians and tourists from France and abroad celebrate start of 2023 on famous avenue near Arc de TriompheAn unexpectedly large crowd of 1 million people crammed on to the Champs-Élysées to celebrate the start of 2023, after two years of Covid cancell…
Record 45,000 migrants crossed English Channel to UK last year
More than 45,000 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK from mainland Europe in 2022, surpassing the previous year’s record by more than 17,000, according to government figures released Sunday.
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Nato chief calls for more support for Ukraine as Russia launches more missile strikes
Air raid sirens wail for hours as the war enters its 11th month