US President Donald Trump is considering sending long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Asked by reporters on Air Force One on Sunday whether he would provide Kyiv with Tomahawks, Trump replied: “We’ll see… I may”. The missiles would be “a new step of aggression” in Ukraine’s war with Russia, he said. The comments follow a phone call at the weekend between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who pushed for stronger military capabilities to launch counter-attacks against Russia. Moscow has previously warned Washington against providing long-range missiles to Kyiv, saying it would cause a major escalation in the conflict and…

It’s often said that a picture can speak a thousand words. The one in Indian newspapers on Monday morning showing female journalists occupying front-row seats at the Afghan Taliban foreign minister’s press conference in Delhi is certainly one of those. The conference – the second press event by Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy in about 48 hours – was called after a huge uproar over the exclusion of women from his first meeting on Friday. Muttaqi said at Sunday’s conference that the exclusion was unintentional and not “deliberate”. “With regard to the [Friday’s] press conference, it was on…

Freed hostages have been reunited with their families in Israel following their release from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday. Videos released by the Israeli military show Eitan Mor, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Matan Zangauker embracing relatives in a reception area. The last 20 living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are now back in Israel after more than two years in captivity. Hamas has yet to hand over the remains of up to 28 deceased hostages. Meanwhile, Israel has begun releasing some of the 1,950 prisoners and detainees it has said it will free as part of a ceasefire deal…

Israel is releasing 250 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas, many of whom have been serving life sentences in Israeli jails. Around 100 of them arrived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to rapturous applause. Many of them looked gaunt and some had visible injuries. About 1,700 detainees from Gaza are also being released by Israel, including 15 minors. The remaining 20 living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have been freed after more than two years. The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher was in Ramallah as the prisoners arrived.

Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods is “a typical example of US double standards”, China’s government has said. A commerce ministry spokesperson also said China could introduce its own unspecified “countermeasures” if the US president carries out his threat, adding it was “not afraid” of a possible trade war. On Friday, Trump hit back at Beijing’s move to tighten its rules for rare earths exports, accusing it of “becoming very hostile” and trying to hold the world “captive”. He also threatened to pull out of a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping later…

Rescue workers in Mexico are searching for at least 65 people who are missing after torrential rains triggered flooding in 150 locations across five states. At least 64 residents are confirmed dead, according to official figures updated by the government on Monday. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has promised help for the affected areas. The heavy rains, caused by two tropical storms, triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow, sweeping away entire homes as well as roads and cars. María Salas, 49, lost five members of her family when their home collapsed in Huauchinango, a town in the mountains in the…

Vote counting is under way in Cameroon following Sunday’s presidential election in which incumbent Paul Biya is seeking to extend his 43 years in power. Biya, who at 92 is the world’s oldest head of state, is being challenged by nine candidates. If he wins, it will be his eighth consecutive term in office, with the next election due in 2032. Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji said that voting took place “hitch-free” across the country. But there was a call for a boycott in the English-speaking regions in the west and there were reports of clashes in the north. The…

Watch: ‘It will be a golden age for the Middle East’ – Trump US President Donald Trump has told cheering Israeli lawmakers that “the long and painful nightmare is finally over”, after helping to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. During the first such address by a US president since 2008, Trump said the day would mark “the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better” in the Middle East. Trump’s address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, comes on the day that the last 20 living hostages held in the Palestinian…

India and Canada have agreed a host of steps at talks between their foreign ministers in Delhi aimed at restoring ties that plummeted after a Sikh separatist leader was assassinated on Canadian soil. Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand, making her first official visit to India, met her counterpart S Jaishankar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi told her the visit would strengthen “efforts to impart new momentum” to the two countries’ partnership. Relations hit rock bottom in 2023 when Canada’s then PM Justin Trudeau accused India of being linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claims Delhi denied. Both…

Tom BennettRamallah, occupied West Bank EPA Families embraced loved ones who were returned from Israeli prison Hundreds of freed Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been welcomed with tears and screams of joy as they were released by Israel to be reunited with their families in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The release involved about 250 prisoners who had been convicted of crimes including murder and deadly attacks against Israelis – and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza who had been held by Israel without charge. As prisoners exited a Red Cross bus in Ramallah, many draped in traditional Keffiyeh scarves,…