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It was responding to a story in The Sunday Times which claimed Prime Minister Liz Truss had "ordered" the King not to attend. The Palace said advice had been sought by the King and given by Ms Truss. "With mutual friendship and…

Russian troops have detained the director of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine's state nuclear regulator Enerhoatom says. It says Ihor Murashov was held as his car was on its way from the facility to the nearby town of…

President Joe Biden has warned Russia that the United States will not be intimidated by reckless threats after Vladimir Putin annexed four occupied regions of Ukraine. Mr Putin "appeared to make a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons to…

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area towards the country’s east coast, according to South Korean and Japanese officials, marking Pyongyang’s fourth missile test launch in a week. Japan’s NHK…

Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country this year. The announcement capped a…

The World Health Organization’s office in sub-Saharan Africa says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Uganda was detected late. Preliminary investigations suggest that the patient could have developed symptoms in August but it was not…

Soon Ugandans who need organ transplants will no longer have to travel abroad, thanks to a new law allowing the procedure in the country. Kidney patients are currently the biggest group in need of transplants in Uganda. "There is just…

Once unthinkable, mobile phones could go dark around Europe this winter if power cuts or energy rationing knocks out parts of the mobile networks across the region. "Russia's decision to halt gas supplies via Europe's key supply route in…

Felicien Kabugae ,one of the alleged masterminds and financiers of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has gone on trial at a UN tribunal in The Hague. Prosecutors say Félicien Kabuga "aided and abetted hit squads in the slaughter of ethnic…

Hundreds of Ugandan students are demonstrating against the European Union parliament, after it opposed an oil pipeline project with 'neighbouring' Tanzania. EU lawmakers earlier this month passed "a resolution warning of human rights…