Reuters Russia has accused Ukraine of a drone attack on Moscow that damaged two buildings and briefly shut one of the city’s airports. A drone was shot down over the Odintsovo district, west of the city centre, and two others were neutralised but crashed into offices, Russia’s defence ministry says. One person has been injured,…

Protesters in south-west Turkey have scuffled with police over the felling of trees to make way for an expansion to a coal mine. Security forces can be seen using water cannons to try and disperse the activists, who have been protesting since the clearing of the forest began five days ago.

Getty Images Kanye West’s account has been reinstated on Twitter after an almost eight-month ban over offensive tweets. The US rapper, known as Ye, was accused of violating the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence. He has not posted anything new since returning to the site, which owner Elon Musk has rebranded to X. Ye’s…

Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not reject the idea of peace talks on Ukraine. Speaking after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg, he said an African peace initiative as well as a Chinese one could serve as a basis for this. President Putin also said it was hard to implement a…

By Bernd Debusmann Jr Reporting from Eagle Pass, Texas Under the brutal heat of the midday South Texas sun, pecan farmer Magali Urbina found herself dealing with a sadly familiar scene: a family of dehydrated, injured migrants on her property. In front of her, Border Patrol officers were putting an IV drip into the arm…

Andrés Larraín Araneda By Charis McGowan Santiago, Chile For Chilean band Hacia La Victoria (Onwards to Victory), performing songs in their hometown of Santiago is an act of protest. All of the band’s members were left either totally or partially blinded by projectiles fired by police during the mass anti-government protests which swept through Chile…

Getty Images By Laura Gozzi BBC News in Calabria “I hear the Canadairs before I see them. When I do, I know there’s a wildfire somewhere very near,” Adriana says. She lives in Terrasini, near Sicily’s capital Palermo. It’s a beautiful part of the island – all steep hills giving way to white rocky shores…

Reuters By Alex Smith BBC News An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to a Christian aid charity she worked for. Alix Dorsainvil was working in a community ministry near Port-au-Prince when she was taken, El Roi Haiti said in a statement. The US State Department is aware of reports…

By James Gallagher Presenter, Inside Health, BBC Radio 4 Sometimes it can feel like the world is on fire. Europe has been baking in a heatwave nicknamed the settimana infernale – “week of hell” – in Italy. Temperatures above 50C have been recorded in China and the US, where body bags filled with ice are…

By Stephen McDonell China correspondent Until last year it was not really possible for most unmarried women to become mothers in China – practically speaking. But a social change is under way and it is driving shifts in policy too. In her flat on the outskirts of Shanghai, Zhang Meili rocks her baby back and…