The Latest Breaking News from Olaf Scholz

Anthony Albanese says an E-7A Wedgetail plane will be dispatched as part of an effort to monitor logistics hubs

Vladimir Putin’s brutal military assault on sovereign neighbour continues in face of heavy losses and near-unanimous international condemnation

Germany’s governing coalition has put off until September a vote on contentious legislation to encourage the replacement of fossil fuel heating systems after the country’s top court shot down plans to push it through parliament this week

Germany’s highest court has blocked government plans to hold a vote in parliament this week on a contentious plan to encourage home owners to replace fossil fuel heating systems with cleaner alternatives

Germany’s Cabinet has approved a draft 2024 budget that foresees lower spending with defense among the exceptions

Moscow briefly closes airport amid reports of drone attack; Jens Stoltenberg’s term as Nato secretary general extended by a year

Missile strike targeted a military funeral in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, local official says

Child among people injured in attack in Sumy; Lynne Tracy visits Wall Street Journal reporter in prison after court upholds FSB request to extend his detention

Poland and Hungary's refusal to go along with a widely agreed EU revision of asylum rules soured a summit of the bloc's leaders that wrapped up Friday – detracting from unity on other issues including on Ukraine – citing racial unrest in France as an example of unsuccessful migrant integration.