Europe

It comes after US President Donald Trump announced a new deal to supply air defence systems via Nato.

The ceremony took place under tight security at a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan - the disarmament process is expected to last all summer.

The home secretary says the government will resist any attempts to block the deal agreed with France this week.

The UK and France have agreed a "one in, one out" deal for migrants crossing the Channel.

People watch on as a blaze rips through the deck of a yacht moored in the French Riviera.

While communities in Sarajevo mark three decades since the massacre, denial of the genocide in on the rise.

Despite pressure from Donald Trump's White House, Russia remain committed to its war effort in Ukraine.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to "smash the gangs" which smuggle people across the English Channel.

Forssell says he will not resign over the issue and that his son has severed all ties with the groups.

The senior agent was shot in a car park in broad daylight on Thursday morning, CCTV shows.

The prototype of the most famous bag in fashion, made for Jane Birkin in 1985, smashes auction records.

Ukraine is in danger of being overwhelmed by deadly strikes as Russia sends in swarms of drones.

"We're going to try again and again to cross to the UK," one migrant told the BBC

The outcome of the vote was not a surprise - but the fact it came about at all was not a positive signal for von der Leyen.

Protest groups had raised a petition against West's appearance at the Rubicon festival in Slovakia.

At least two people were killed and 16 injured, with fires burning across Ukraine's capital, officials said.

The temporary measures come as Crete grapples with a 350% increase in arrivals compared to last year.

Analysis of Russia's advance in northern and eastern Ukraine in maps.

But the US president's words have not gone unnoticed, writes the BBC's Russia Editor.

The French president met the Prince and Princess of Wales, the King and Queen and dignitaries on the first day of his state visit.

President Putin sacked his transport minister. Hours later, his body was found in a park with a gunshot wound to the head.

There are high hopes for Macron's three-day visit, but how close can the nations really become given past mistrust over Brexit negotiations?

Jota, 28, was laid to rest alongside his brother, Silva, 25, after they died in a car crash on Thursday.

The BBC's Andrew Harding saw French gendarmes using knives to slash an inflatable small boat, packed with men, women and children.