Zelensky warns of 'humanitarian disaster' for Ukraine as he meets Starmer and European leaders
Zelensky urges European leaders not to 'reward' Russia
We can bring you some more now from the meeting of the so-called coalition of the willing.
Addressing leaders, President Zelensky urges them not to "give Russia any reason to think they can finish this war with any outcome that is unfair to us".
Summary
Volodymyr Zelensky warns of "humanitarian disaster" in Ukraine as he meets Keir Starmer for talks in London
Starmer says there's more to do on Kyiv's long-range capability, as European leaders belonging to the so-called coalition of the willing meet
Starmer and Zelensky embraced outside 10 Downing Street as the Ukrainian president arrived - a clear message to Zelensky that the UK wants to remain one of Ukraine's most dependable allies, writes our reporter
West Bank resistance dies amid fears of becoming Israel’s ‘next Gaza’
Once known as the ‘martyrs’ capital’ of Palestine, Jenin is now patrolled by Israeli soldiers as weary residents seek quiet life
Fri 24 Oct 2025 10.18 BST
Shadi Dabaya’s body bears the scars of the Israeli occupation. The 54-year-old proudly stuck out his jaw to show the chunk of his cheek torn away by Israeli fire and traced the zigzag scar on his arm, the pink, raised flesh marking the bullet’s path through his body.
“I got these in the second intifada,” said Dabaya, beaming. He pulled up a video of himself a year earlier confronting an Israeli personnel carrier in Jenin camp wielding only a flip-flop.
Turkey: Court dismisses opposition party's corruption case
After a year-long legal crackdown on the CHP opposition party, a judge said corruption suspicions against it have "no basis." Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu, seen as a challenger to President Erdogan, is still under arrest.
A court in Turkey has dismissed a graft case against the country’s main opposition party, the social democratic CHP, ruling that the lawsuit lacked merit.
The case sought to annul the party’s 2023 congress, during which longtime leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu was ousted CHP leader Ozgur Ozel elected. It alleged vote-buying and procedural violations.
However, the judge rejected the lawsuit, saying it had “no basis.”
Sweden’s crowd-forecasting platform ‘Glimt’ helps Ukraine make wartime predictions
Sweden has been stepping up its support for Ukraine, including signing a letter of intent this week on up to 150 Gripen fighter jets. Ukraine is even using its online crowd-forecasting platform, which uses thousands of user responses to predict future events, including developments in the war.
New NATO member Sweden is boosting support to Ukraine, with a letter of intent signed this week on the sale of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets. Shortly after joining NATO in March 2024 and bringing an end to two centuries of military non-alignment, Sweden approved a €989 million military support package that included Archer self-propelled artillery systems and long-range drones.
EDITORIAL: Radical reforms being pushed by Takaichi show a different Japan
Following three months of political uncertainty, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has established her new Cabinet, bringing an end to the political vacuum created by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous Upper House election loss.
In the Diet vote for prime minister, Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party), now a partner in the LDP-led coalition but without Cabinet representation, got its Lower House members to vote for Takaichi, ensuring her victory on the first ballot.
Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope
Hiba and Mohammad have suffered immensely during Israel's war on Gaza, and have little to look forward to.
By Maram Humaid
Hiba al-Yazji and her husband Mohammad have been through hell and back in the past two years. They have lost dozens of family members – killed in Israeli attacks. Their homes are gone. They’ve been forced into displacement multiple times. And now they’re waiting, not sure what the future will bring them and their 10-year-old daughter, Iman.
The family arrived back in northern Gaza last Saturday, a few days after the Gaza ceasefire began, but just a day before Israeli attacks threatened to collapse the deal.
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