Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, are expected to promise today to have their nuclear arsenals work together if Europe is threatened. Private equity firms have entered the $40 billion youth sports industry. Their investments could raise costs for families.

As a step to hold Putin accountable for his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European leaders launched the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine. The Kremlin has signaled they plan to ignore any international attempts to hold the Kremlin accountable.

North Korea's renewed military support for Russia comes as US President Donald Trump has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, after a brief hiatus. Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he had made a deal with Nato for the US to send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine via the alliance, after a surge of Russian aerial attacks.

Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died by suicide on Monday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired him from the job, officials said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants more than Donald Trump has been prepared to offer, writes BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.

Trump had vowed to put an end to the ongoing conflict in Russia and Ukraine a day after he stepped into his office while on his presidential campaign trail but failed.

Putin said that the terms of a potential ceasefire, which the Kremlin has so far repeatedly rejected, are expected to be on the agenda. View on euronews

An Italian region has invited the pro-Putin conductor, signalling a rehabilitation despite no sign of an end to the war.

Russia has intensified its bombing campaign on Ukraine, launching hundreds of drones and missiles overnight into Saturday