Since she stepped down in 2021, Merkel has been accused of having been too soft on Russia, leaving Germany dangerously reliant on cheap Russian gas and sparking turmoil and the rise of the far right with her open-door migrant policy.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made his remarks after being asked to comment on an interview that Mike Waltz, Trump's pick for national security adviser, gave to Fox News on Sunday. 

The agreement, clinched in overtime at the two-week conference in Azerbaijan's capital, was meant to provide momentum for international efforts to curb global warming in a year destined to be the hottest on record.

The streamlined text released in Azerbaijan recognizes developing countries need a trillion dollars per year to fight global warming, but does not present a much-sought figure needed to land the deal.

The President received a red carpet welcome on Wednesday when he arrived in the United Kingdom, the final stop on his five-country tour.

Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region. Debris of one hit the facility, starting a fire that was swiftly put out and caused no casualties or damage, it said.

The decision to change Russia's official nuclear doctrine is the Kremlin's answer to a reported decision by the administration of US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to fire American long-range missiles deep into Russia.

"An early ceasefire and a political solution serve the interests of all parties," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a regular briefing, when asked about the US decision.

Reuters, citing two US officials and a source familiar with the decision, reported on Sunday that Biden's administration has made the decision to allow Ukraine to make the strikes with US weapons deep into Russia.

Despite repeated pleas for a greenlight from Ukraine, Biden had long resisted calls for a change from within the US Congress and latterly from allies such as Britain.

Trump held the call from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, just days after his stunning election victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the report said.

In the Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam's Jewish quarter, members of the community were keeping a low profile Saturday, but one T-shirt seller at a local market said he felt "terrible" about the violence in his home city.

Israel's national security ministry has also urged its citizens in the Dutch city to stay in their hotel rooms following the attacks, the prime minister's office said in a second statement.

The end of his fractious three-way coalition, which deprives him of a governing majority, could not have come at a worse time for Europe's biggest economy, which is set to shrink for a second year in a row.

Once practiced throughout Europe, the custom of shrimp-fishing on horseback has all but died out, with a community of enthusiasts has kept the flame going in a Belgium coastal town, earning a spot on UNESCO's intangible heritage list

Thousands of volunteers of all ages, walks of life and different nationalities showed up on Friday in Spain's eastern Valencia region to help with clean-up efforts after catastrophic floods that have killed at least 205 people.

Torrential rains that began at the start of the week sparked flooding that has left at least 95 people dead, the deadliest such disaster in the western European country since 1973.

Scholz in the interview reaffirmed his stance that the Ukraine-Russia conflict must not escalate into a direct war between Russia and NATO. 

Several EU nations have reported a rise in anti-Muslim, as well as anti-Semitic acts since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, which then launched a retaliatory offensive on Gaza, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

The newly installed foreign minister has reaffirmed Indonesia’s support for the Palestinian cause during a meeting with the PLO on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, which runs from Oct. 22 to 24 in Kazan, Russia.

A final communique listed a number of projects aimed at facilitating trade between BRICS nations - including an alternative payment system to the dollar - but did not include details or timelines.

Foreign Minister Sugiono is in Russia on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit bloc of emerging economies, during which he will deliver a message of world peace and call for unity among the countries of the Global South.

The BRICS summit takes place as global finance chiefs gather in Washington amid war in the Middle East as well as Ukraine, a flagging Chinese economy and worries that the US presidential election could ignite new trade battles.

The tight finish - with fewer than 1.5 percent of the ballots still to be counted - is far from a resounding endorsement of the pro-EU path that Sandu has pursued over four years at the helm of the small ex-Soviet republic tugged between Russia and the West.

The 71-year-old woman has become a feminist icon in France since the trial of Dominique Pelicot and dozens others opened last month in the southern French city of Avignon.

It is dangerous. It is illegal. And his parents do not approve. But Titouan Leduc is not planning to give up his passion of urban climbing any time soon.

The M1A1 Abrams tanks -- weighing over 60 tonnes and equipped with heavy firepower -- were due to be decommissioned starting next year. 

Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on "how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

As Athens marks 80 years since its liberation from Nazi Germany in World War II this weekend, historians lament that a modest memorial standing in a former Hitler's secret police Gestapo headquarters is typical of the lack of attention paid to one of the most horrific periods in Greece's history.

Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's prison of war coordination headquarters, confirmed on Thursday that the journalist, Victoria Roshchyna, had died in detention