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Russia and Ukraine should meet at a ‘very high level’ in order to agree a peace deal, Donald Trump said as he gathered with world leaders.

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Both visits give the Foreign Secretary the chance to discuss the latest efforts to bring about peace in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The seating plan has been described as a ‘master plan’ in stage-managing the ‘big egos’ of world leaders.

St George’s Day events, FA Cup semi-finals, boxing at the Tottenham Stadium and a Just Stop Oil protest are all taking place at the weekend in London.

Here is exactly what will happen leading up to and during the late Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

Ireland’s president and premier will be among attendees for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday.

Rachel Reeves met Scott Bessent on Friday, after saying Britain’s relationship with the EU is ‘arguably even more important’ than with the US.

The requiem mass will be attended by world leaders and dignitaries.

In February, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced she is prepared to support the expansion of Gatwick airport if the project is adjusted.

Lucinda Collins ploughed through a junction after being told on a call to her mother that her father was dying.

Christina Howell stabbed Hubert Brown to death in a racist and unprovoked attack, the sentencing judge said.

Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

Senior military personnel and dignitaries attended the event at the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh.

Rubbish has been piling up in the streets since hundreds of bin workers walked out on March 11 in a dispute with Birmingham City Council.

John Swinney has travelled to Rome for Saturday’s ceremony.

It claimed it now has more members north of the border than the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens and Alba.

The Energy Secretary was speaking at the end of an international energy security summit in London.

Scott McSeveney and Steven Lawson, both from Shotts, were both sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on Friday.