Iran rules out talks with US unless blockade of ports lifted

On a state visit to the US, the British monarch is being deployed to help steady increasingly strained US-UK relations. Can King Charles help repair the damaged so-called "special relationship?"

Defence lawyers had asked for case to be thrown out, claiming Maduro's rights were violated following US abduction.

A festive and cheerful mood has taken hold of the West Bank as the Palestinian Authority holds local elections, FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky said, reporting from Bethlehem. Most electoral lists are aligned with president Mahmud Abbas's secular-nationalist Fatah party or running as independents. There are no lists affiliated with Fatah's archrival Hamas, which controls nearly half of the Gaza Strip.

Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro.