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The day began with the same cordial routine the White House reserves for visiting foreign dignitaries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed by US President Donald Trump at the door of the West Wing with an honour guard, and the leaders shook hands politely. We were in the Oval Office…

Robert Plummer and Nadine Yousif BBC News PA Media President Donald Trump continued to play the global disruptor this week, while the rest of the world did its best to engage with him. His sixth week in office saw developments at home and abroad, as the US president hosted foreign…

Dorcas Wangira BBC Africa health correspondent Unicef Staff at Mugunga health centre in Goma have been unable to trace the 128 patients who fled at the end of January More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current…

Three astronomers have filmed video diaries for the BBC, showing us seven planets – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn – that have all been visible in the sky above the UK this week. Friday is the last day where the rare phenomenon known as a ‘planetary parade’…

A furious Donald Trump has clashed with Volodymyr Zelensky, with the US president telling his Ukrainian counterpart to make a deal with Russia “or we are out”. The pair interrupted each other repeatedly during heated exchange in a manner rarely seen in the White House. At one point, an angry…

Getty Images Three people have died in Reunion after Cyclone Garance swept through the French Indian Ocean territory with gusts of up to 234km/h (145mph). The tropical cyclone left more than 180,000 homes without power and 170,000 without running water after making landfall on Friday morning. The remote island’s entire…

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky clashed during an angry meeting at the White House on Friday. Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart to be “thankful” and accused him of “gambling with World War Three”. It comes a week after Zelensky said Trump was “living in a disinformation…

At least six people have been killed in a suicide attack at an Islamic seminary in northern Pakistan that has been described as the “University of Jihad”. The blast happened at the mosque within the Darul Uloom Haqqania, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 55km (34 miles) from the northern…

Watch: Czech Republic train fire seen in drone footage A freight train carrying the highly toxic chemical benzene has derailed in the Czech Republic, sparking a huge fire. Several tankers and a locomotive were ablaze, with firefighters from several regions and a mobile chemical laboratory deployed to the area, according…

Drone footage shows firefighters tackling a huge fire in the eastern Olomouc region of the Czech Republic after a train derailed. The regional fire service said tanks containing the flammable chemical benzene were damaged in the derailment. It added on Friday afternoon that aerial support was at the scene, while…