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Somalia: Nine killed, 10 injured after extremist attack on Mogadishu hotel

Police in Somalia say nine people, including three soldiers, were killed in Friday night’s extremist attack on a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.

Rome holds LGBTQ+ Pride parade amid backdrop of Meloni government crackdown on surrogate births

Rome’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade wound its way through the Italian capital on Saturday, providing a colourful counterpoint to the national government’s crackdown on surrogate pregnancies and same-sex parents.

Four missing children found alive in the Amazon 40 days after plane crash

The frantic search for survivors began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed in the Amazon jungle.

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant shuts down last reactor in face of flooding threat

The largest nuclear facility in Ukraine, under Russian occupation since 2022, is said to be at no immediate risk of disaster

Suspect in French Alps stabbing attack has been charged with attempted murder

French judges on Saturday handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park, an attack that reverberated across France and beyond.

Italian forces secure Turkish ship attacked by armed stowaways off Naples

Italian special forces boarded a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France on Friday, after the crew were threatened by “pirates” off the Italian coast.

Killer known as the Unabomber dies in prison at 81

Harvard-educated Ted Kaczynski, who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that terrorised the United States, has died aged 81.

Zelenskyy confirms counteroffensive actions taking place in Ukraine

Ukrainian President says mood is positive but doesn’t give details on military operations

‘Baseless’: Trump blasts federal indictment at first events since charges were unsealed

Former President Donald Trump blasted his historic federal indictment as “ridiculous” and “baseless” Saturday during his first public appearances since the charges were unsealed, painting the 37 felony counts as an attack on his supporters as he tried to turn dire legal peril to political advantage.

The week in pictures: Terror in Annecy, Pope in hospital, Trudeau in Kiev

The best photos from across Europe this week