International

Despite a pledge it would not head there, satellite images appear to show an Iranian ship off Syria.

Environmental activists have staged a sit-in on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival.

Officials hope the long-awaited exchange may help improve relations between the neighbours.

India’s space agency lost contact with Chandrayaan-2 shortly before the craft was expected to land.

• Zimbabwe President: Mugabe is national hero

There is concern for people who stayed on Ocracoke island as hundreds remain missing in the Bahamas.

Angela Merkel was welcomed by Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday amid calls for the German Chancellor to take a stronger line on China’s human rights record.

India hopes to become only the fourth country — behind the US, the former Soviet Union and China — to make a soft landing on the surface of the moon when its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempts the feat early Saturday local time (Friday eastern time).

Mr Mugabe, 95, was ousted in a military coup in November 2017, ending his three-decade reign.