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Maddy Savage Reporting fromUppsala, Sweden Getty Images Police forensic officers at the scene of the shooting this week Ahead of Sweden’s Walpurgis festival to mark the start of spring, young people were busy selecting outfits or getting their hair done. Not all of them made it there alive. At a…

Romanians will try again to elect a new president today, six months after the first attempt ended in scandal and confusion. A radical outsider with mystical leanings, Calin Georgescu, came first on 24 November, but that result was annulled over allegations of campaign fraud and Russian interference. In February, US…

Getty Images On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him. It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic…

BBC Parisian women smile in May 1945 after Germany’s capitulation was signed the previous day “Celebration? What celebration? It feels more like a funeral” – the damning words of a former senior Nato figure to describe this week’s ceremonies marking Victory in Europe Day. The top-level diplomat who spent years…

Warren Buffett has announced he will retire as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year. The veteran investor, known as the Oracle of Omaha, told his company’s annual meeting he would hand over the reins to Vice-Chairman Greg Abel. “I think the time has arrived where Greg should become…

X/White House US President Donald Trump has attracted criticism from some Catholics after posting an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope. The picture, which was shared by official White House social media accounts, comes as Catholics mourn the death of Pope Francis, who died on 21 April, and prepare…

Getty Images Singapore PM Lawrence Wong became the PAP party leader last year Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has won by a landslide in an election dominated by concerns over the cost of living and the country’s future economic stability. Led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his first…

At least seven people have been killed after a hospital and market were bombed in South Sudan, a medical charity has said, as fears grow of a return to civil war. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said helicopter gunships dropped a bomb on the pharmacy of the hospital it runs in…

The Togolese leader, Faure Gnassingbé, has been sworn in as “President of the Council of Ministers” – a new post which is the highest office in the government’s executive branch and has no official term limits. This follows constitutional reform that ended presidential elections, and introduced a parliamentary system. The…

Swedish police have arrested six people in connection with a triple murder at a hair salon in the city of Uppsala. The suspects range in age from under 18 to 45, according to the state prosecutor’s office. One is suspected of carrying out the killings on Tuesday evening. A 16-year-old…