China's despot Xi Jinping lands at Paris Orly airport on controversial state visit to France accompanied by his wife - and a huge entourage of staff carrying bags

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, landed at Paris Orly airport on Sunday afternoon and were welcomed by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.

Putin times his inauguration with Moscow's annual Victory Day parade marking the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany - as despot extends his rule by another six years after 'sham' election

The latest military showcase - which has seen large-scale rehearsals in Moscow today - comes amid reports Russia is losing 1,000 troops per day in its invasion of Ukraine.

Putin marks Orthodox Easter - by killing his fellow Christians: Russian rocket and drone attacks in Ukraine leave two dead and six wounded

The attacks came as Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrated Easter, with the Kremlin showing no respite during the holy occasion.

'My mum suffered for 30 years, she was let down by the system': Olympian Sharron Davies - who lost her mother to the infected blood scandal - backs growing calls for compensation for thousands of victims

The former swimmer and has opened up about the impact on her family of NHS failures which are the focus of a public inquiry - after her mother contracted hepatitis C then liver cancer.

Is Putin cracking under the pressure of his barbaric war? Russian tyrant seems withdrawn as he makes a rare public appearance at Orthodox Easter mass - after a week of 'losing 1,000 men a day in Ukraine'

Putin attended a service at the packed Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken supporter of the Kremlin.

How Israel's Eurovision contestant has faced death threats and fears of a terror attack, but declares: 'I'm not worried - but I am prepared'

Since Eden Golan won her ticket to Malmo - the Swedish host city of this year's Eurovision competition - she has endured a barrage of death threats.

Poisonous cloud hangs over Berlin after chemical factory blaze: Fears of deadly hydrogen cyanide prompts warning to close all windows and stay inside after fire hits firm that makes weapons supplied to Ukraine

Firefighters said sulphuric acid and copper cyanide were stored at the plant and the chemicals ignited, which could create hydrogen cyanide.

Stand off in the skies: Moment US F-16 fighters are scrambled to intercept Russian nuclear bomber near Alaska airspace in latest flashpoint between two superpowers

US and Russian warplanes came face to face in the sky on Thursday after Vladimir Putin sent up two Tu-95MS nuclear bombers over the Bering Sea, near Alaska's western coast.

US fighter jets 'scramble to intercept Russian nuclear bomber during 11-hour flight past Alaska' in latest aerial flashpoint between two superpowers

US and Russian warplanes came face to face in the sky on Thursday after Vladimir Putin sent up two Tu-95MS nuclear bombers over the Bering Sea, near Alaska's western coast.

Ukraine cannot beat Russia on the battlefield and will have to enter talks with Putin, one of Zelensky's senior military commanders admits

Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, deputy chief of Ukraine's HUR military intelligence directorate, admitted that Ukraine is 'on the brink' while waiting for aid to arrive.

Why has Macron gone from 'appeasing' Putin to threatening to send troops into Ukraine and drag NATO into WW3? French president envied Boris Johnson's war leadership - and it's a useful distraction from other issues…

Europe and the United States have now committed more than £130bn to Ukraine in aid but NATO members have stopped short of promising boots on the ground...

Macron vows to send TROOPS to Ukraine if Putin's forces break through front lines and Zelensky asks for reinforcements - further raising the risk of NATO going head-to-head with Russia

In an interview published today, Macron did not rule out sending troops to aid Kyiv , saying the issue would 'legitimately' arise if Kyiv made such a request.

Chinese and Russian AI with access to NUKES could start WW3 and spark Armageddon: US fears computer miscalculation could see missiles launched at America

Washington, London and Paris have all agreed to maintain total human control over nuclear weapons, State Department arms control official Paul Dean said

Russian forces 'have used chemical weapons in Ukraine in violation of international law', US claims - as Putin's war machine grinds on

Putin 's forces are alleged to have used chloropicrin likely in an effort to 'dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield'

Russians descend on Moscow's Victory Park to goggle at captured Western military hardware including British armoured cars put on display by Putin after they were seized in Ukraine

Armoured vehicles from a dozen NATO countries, as well as drones, rocket launchers and American tanks, were displayed in the symbolic space in Moscow on May 1

The 'family-run' Greek hotel… 'that was also a safehouse for Russian GRU assassins': Husband-and-wife owners charged £120-a-night 'while also hosting Moscow intelligence killers'

The Hellenic bolthole has hosted members of GRU Unit 29155, the Kremlin's 'most grimly accomplished assassination and sabotage squad,' an investigation by The Insider has found.

Russian GRU spies behind 2018 Salisbury poisonings also destroyed Czech ammo stores killing two in 2014 blasts having used same fake names for the covert operation, probe finds

The explosions near the eastern Czech village of Vrbetice in 2014 killed two workers and caused extensive damage - four years before the attack in Salisbury against the former Russian spy.

Ukrainian FM: ‘It’s good to have America back’

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says it's "good to have America back," as vital US military aid is finally signed into law. #CNN #News

Two Finnish passenger jets are forced to turn around mid-journey due to Russian GPS jamming as Baltic nations warn Moscow's 'hostile' actions are risking an air disaster

Two Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tartu in Estonia were forced to turn around and return to Finland on Thursday and Friday after they were unable to navigate safely.

Captured British armoured cars and American tanks are put on display in Moscow after being seized from Ukrainian forces as part of a new exhibit that claims Russia's victory is inevitable

The open-air museum, which commemorates Germany's defeat in the Second World War , has been transformed into a glorification of Russia's invasion of Ukraine .

The house of zombie dolls: Inside house where bodysnatcher who dug up dead girls lived with their corpses after turning them into horrifying playthings wearing lipstick and knee-length boots

Scattered among the mounds of clutter within the home of Anatoly Moskvin, from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia , were 26 mummified bodies of girls and women aged between three and 29.