US wants Russia and Ukraine to end war by June, says Zelensky

US President Donald Trump has sent troops from California to Oregon after a court denied his attempt to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The deployment circumvents a judge’s order blocking the deployment by instead using National Guard soldiers already serving in Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to file a lawsuit over the…

The Spanish tourist resort of Benidorm is clamping down on shops that display lewd or “offensive” items in their windows – fearing that they tarnish the area’s image and upset passers-by. The items include joke t-shirts and souvenirs with sexual messages on them, which tend to be on display in its so-called “Guiri zone” –…

It’s often said that a picture can speak a thousand words. The one in Indian newspapers on Monday morning showing female journalists occupying front-row seats at the Afghan Taliban foreign minister’s press conference in Delhi is certainly one of those. The conference – the second press event by Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy…