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A metal detectorist’s remarkable discovery in a local field has uncovered a gilded Christian cross pendant dating back over 1,200 years, the City of Leeds announced on May 12.

The United States and Iran resumed high-stakes nuclear negotiations in Rome on Friday, concluding the fifth round of indirect talks with no agreement but cautious optimism for progress. The discussions, mediated by Oman, exposed widening gaps between both sides over uranium enrichment—an issue that has now emerged as the chief obstacle to a renewed nuclear accord.

Authorities in Ukraine say Russia has launched a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv, injuring 15 people. It is seen as one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the war began over three years ago.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced a 50% tariff on all European Union imports to the United States from June 1 and said a potential 25% smartphone charge would apply to all foreign-made devices.

Germany’s recently elected chancellor has expressed his shock over Friday’s knife attack at the central railway station in the German city of Hamburg that injured more than a dozen people.

Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Chinese president Xi Jinping to back efforts to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine amid concerns about China’s cooperation with Russia.

Russia and Ukraine have begun one of the largest prisoner exchanges in their three-year war after the first direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv delegates in more than three years.

Some 80 people have been arrested across various European nations in a major international police operation against illegal art trade, officials said Friday.

The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group executed what officials are calling the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” launched from an aircraft carrier, dropping 125,000 pounds of munitions in recent operations over Somalia, according to Adm. James Kilby, the Navy’s acting chief of operations.

German archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a landmark discovery in Iraq that is reshaping our understanding of the ancient Assyrian Empire. While excavating the ruins of Nineveh—once the empire’s capital and famously the setting of the biblical story of Jonah—a team uncovered a monumental relief depicting King Assurbanipal flanked by the major deities Assur and Ištar.

Romania’s Constitutional Court has “unanimously” rejected an application by George Simion, the defeated nationalist candidate in Sunday’s presidential election rerun, to declare the vote invalid on the grounds of “foreign interference.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump told South African president Cyril Ramaphosa that “thousands” of white people want to come to the United States because they fear for their lives in South Africa.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over the sovereignty of one of the last remnants of the British Empire, the Chagos Islands, to Mauritius.

The Netherlands on Wednesday plunged into mourning as police confirmed that a three-day search for two missing children ended when their bodies, along with that of their father, were recovered from a car submerged in a remote canal.

The war in Ukraine was brought to the streets of Spain on Wednesday as unidentified gunmen shot and killed a high-profile former Ukrainian politician.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be just weeks away from collapsing into a new civil war, citing fears that the fledgling transitional government in Damascus could soon fall apart without urgent international support.

Romania faced more political turmoil Wednesday as a nationalist presidential candidate said he would contest Sunday’s election’s declared outcome.

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday ratified a sweeping 20-year strategic partnership with Russia, signaling a significant deepening of ties between the two heavily sanctioned nations.

Oman’s foreign minister announced that a fifth round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States is set for Friday in Rome, continuing Oman’s quiet role as a mediator between the two rivals. The announcement, made on X, has yet to be confirmed by either Tehran or Washington.

Legislators of the European Union prepared for an urgent debate on Hungary’s proposed new transparency law that they fear will lead to a Russia-style crackdown on critics by the “increasingly authoritarian” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.