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In raids conducted across Germany, 25 persons were detained on suspicion of planning to topple the government. The group of far-right and ex-military leaders allegedly planned a "Day X" invasion of the Reichstag and takeover of power. They claim that Heinrich XIII, a member of a long-standing aristocratic family, played a key role in their scheme. He is one of two alleged ringleaders among those..

Ukraine's security service has raided a historic monastery in Kyiv in an operation it says was aimed at stopping Russian agents using the site for sabotage, intelligence or weapons. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Christian monastery dates back to the 11th Century and is a seat of Ukraine's Orthodox Church (UOC). The Church split from the Moscow patriarchate after Russia's invasion. The schism was promp..

Crowds of residents in southern China's industrial metropolis Guangzhou have escaped a compulsory lockdown and clashed with police, as anger at strict coronavirus curbs boiled over. Dramatic footage shows some overturning a police vehicle and tearing down Covid control barriers. Riot teams have now been deployed in the area. It follows Guangzhou's worst Covid outbreak since the pandemic began. A..

France has suspended a plan to take in 3,500 refugees currently in Italy after Rome refused to let a migrant rescue ship disembark on its shores. Tensions between the two neighbours have escalated since Italy's new government barred the Ocean Viking ship from docking with 230 migrants. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced Italy's "unacceptable behaviour". He said the boat would be ..

A fisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday's plane crash which killed 19 people in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, has described how he tried to save the pilots stuck in the cockpit and how he nearly lost his life trying to rescue them. Majaliwa Jackson has been officially declared a hero, awarded 1 million Tanzanian shillings ($430; £370), and offered a job in the fire and ..

A UK subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has been ordered to pay more than £275m for bribing officials in African countries to get access to oil. The company paid $26m (£23m) through agents and employees to officials of crude oil firms in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast between 2011 and 2016. Prosecutors said Glencore Energy UK employees and agents used private jets to transfer cash to pay the..

The government has been urged to open an investigation into claims former prime minister Liz Truss's phone was hacked while she was foreign secretary. The Mail on Sunday reported private messages between Ms Truss and foreign officials, including about the Ukraine war, fell into foreign hands. The hack was discovered during the summer Tory leadership campaign but the news was suppressed, the pape..

Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa. Multiple videos on social media show hundreds demonstrating and clashing with police. They are said to be mostly ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers. The city has been under lockdown for nearly three months as it battles a wave of infections. Tibet is on..

Iran has deployed military experts in Russian-occupied Crimea to help launch drone attacks on Ukraine, the White House says. The Iranians are trainers and tech support workers, a US spokesman said. The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was struck by so-called "kamikaze" drones on Monday, deployed by Russia but believed to be Iranian-made. The UK has announced sanctions on Iranian businesses and individua..

The United Nations' refugee agency has said it is "deeply distressed" by the discovery of almost 100 naked men at the border between Greece and Turkey. The two countries have blamed each other for the plight of the 92 migrants. Greece laid the blame at Turkey's door, saying its "behaviour" was a "shame for civilisation". Turkey denied it sent the men across the Evros river and accused its neighb..