The UK is set to host military planners from more than 30 countries for two days of talks beginning today, Wednesday, as momentum builds behind a UK–France-led mission aimed at protecting navigation in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.

The number of immigrants living in the European Union has reached a new high, reflecting the bloc’s growing appeal as a destination and the increasingly fluid nature of its labour markets.

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Paris, with both leaders using the meeting to push for stability in southern Lebanon and to rally support for a country still reeling from weeks of war.

Hungary’s post-election political shift is set to unblock the €90 billion European Union “financial support package” for Ukraine, after weeks of wrangling over the damaged Druzhba oil pipeline and Viktor Orban’s veto.

France and Poland have stepped up efforts to deepen their strategic partnership, with Emmanuel Macron and Donald Tusk using a bilateral summit in Poland to inject fresh momentum into defence, industrial, and political cooperation.

A European Union and United Nations report estimates it will cost more than $71 billion over the next decade to rebuild Gaza after more than two years of war, which has “pushed back human development… by 77 years”.

Four candidates to lead the United Nations face public questioning at the organisation’s New York headquarters this week, only the second time the UN has held such an open forum. Among the candidates are three from South America and one from Africa, S…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stood alongside Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Hanover on Sunday to celebrate what both men cast as a milestone for open trade – the long-awaited agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc.

Bulgarian former president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, has won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections that could spell an end to the country’s half-decade of political uncertainty but also potential…