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US agrees deal to slash Swiss tariffs to 15% after golden charm offensive Under the deal, Donald Trump's 39% tariffs will be cut and Switzerland will invest $200bn (£150bn) in the US.
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Second brother of French anti-drugs campaigner shot dead in Marseille Investigators fear the murder of a second brother of Amine Kessaci is meant as a warning to him.
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Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers The new military service plan will mandate all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve.
Pope Leo XIV appoints his first Irish bishop Bishop Niall Coll of Ossory has been appointed as the new Bishop of Raphoe.
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Major corruption scandal engulfs top Zelensky allies The Ukrainian president has called for the justice and energy ministers to be removed from their posts.
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South Africans trapped in Donbas after joining Russia-Ukraine war, Ramaphosa says It is unclear whether the citizens were fighting on behalf of Russia or Ukraine.
Queues and protests: BBC at the Shein store opening in Paris The online shopping giant opened its first physical shop in the world - in a Parisian department store.
Freed in Trump deal: Prisoners in exile tell of brutality behind bars in Belarus They were freed in September under a deal between Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko and US President Donald Trump.
Watch: Train smashes into truck at Dutch level crossing Five people sustained minor injuries but nobody was seriously hurt in the incident in Meteren.
Watch: Moment nuclear plant towers collapse during demolition Two nuclear cooling towers in the town of Gundremmingen, Germany, collapse into large swirls of thick, white dust during demolition.
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia How Russia's gradual gains in the face of fierce Ukrainian opposition have affected the front line in recent months.
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Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul after $100m corruption scandal
State-owned energy firms will be fully audited and new management brought in, the Ukrainian PM says.
Driver released after deadly Stockholm bus crash
Police are still investigating the circumstances but said there is no reason to think the crash was intentional.
Should Hitler's DNA have been studied – or just left alone?
Ground-breaking research has made some fascinating discoveries on the dictator, from his ancestry to possible neurological disorders.
Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv
Six people are killed in Kyiv, and Ukraine targets one of Russia's biggest oil ports on the Black Sea coast.
US agrees deal to slash Swiss tariffs to 15% after golden charm offensive
Under the deal, Donald Trump's 39% tariffs will be cut and Switzerland will invest $200bn (£150bn) in the US.
'Astonishingly lethal': BBC reports from site of Russian strike in Kyiv
The BBC's James Landale reports from the east of the capital where a drone struck a multi-storey residential building.
Second brother of French anti-drugs campaigner shot dead in Marseille
Investigators fear the murder of a second brother of Amine Kessaci is meant as a warning to him.
France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away
As France marks 10 years since the Paris attacks, an ex-girlfriend of a jihadist survivor is arrested for an alleged plot of her own.
Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers
The new military service plan will mandate all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve.
Pope Leo XIV appoints his first Irish bishop
Bishop Niall Coll of Ossory has been appointed as the new Bishop of Raphoe.
French relief as Algeria frees jailed novelist at centre of diplomatic crisis
Almost a year to the day after Boualem Sansal was arrested, the Algerian president grants him a pardon.
Russia's attacks have ramped up - Ukraine is fighting to hold on through another winter
Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high
Italy investigates claims of tourists paying to shoot civilians in Bosnia in 1990s
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
Major corruption scandal engulfs top Zelensky allies
The Ukrainian president has called for the justice and energy ministers to be removed from their posts.
Danish man given suspended sentence for sharing nude film scenes on Reddit
Police said the man shared 347 clips of naked actors on the social media site, which were viewed 4.2 million times.
Russia's AI robot falls seconds after being unveiled
Footage shows the moment Russia's first anthropomorphic robot fell just seconds after its debut
Serbia's energy reliance on Russia comes unstuck facing US oil sanctions
President Vucic has traded barbs with the Kremlin amid differences over gas supplies and Serbia's arms trade.
How an Afghan child bride became one of Europe's top bodybuilders
Roya Karimi is getting ready to compete in the world bodybuilding championships, 15 years after fleeing Afghanistan.
What Hungary's Orban did - and didn't - get from Trump
On the surface, the Hungarian PM's trip was exactly what he wanted, but the full picture is more complex, writes the BBC's Nick Thorpe.
Ukrainians would like to watch comedies - but for now their culture is defined by...
Nearly four years on from Russia's invasion, the arts are back but the war permeates everything.
South Africans trapped in Donbas after joining Russia-Ukraine war, Ramaphosa says
It is unclear whether the citizens were fighting on behalf of Russia or Ukraine.
Queues and protests: BBC at the Shein store opening in Paris
The online shopping giant opened its first physical shop in the world - in a Parisian department store.
Freed in Trump deal: Prisoners in exile tell of brutality behind bars in Belarus
They were freed in September under a deal between Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko and US President Donald Trump.
Watch: Train smashes into truck at Dutch level crossing
Five people sustained minor injuries but nobody was seriously hurt in the incident in Meteren.
Watch: Moment nuclear plant towers collapse during demolition
Two nuclear cooling towers in the town of Gundremmingen, Germany, collapse into large swirls of thick, white dust during demolition.
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
How Russia's gradual gains in the face of fierce Ukrainian opposition have affected the front line in recent months.



























