International from Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Four people have died and one is seriously injured after a cable car crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy on Thursday.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip after Hamas' October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow's longstanding ties with Palestinians helped secure their freedom.

Russian attacks killed at least three people in Ukraine's south and injured 10 more on Thursday, local authorities said, after an overnight barrage of missiles and drones.

US President Donald Trump touted "big progress" in tariff talks with Japan on Wednesday, in one of the first rounds of face-to-face negotiations since his barrage of duties on global imports roiled markets and stoked recession fears.

Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, the country's Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered.