Ukraine’s capital has come under a new missile attack, hours after Russia said it was “ready in principle” to resume peace talks and the US president said the world was “the closest we’ve been” to ending the war.

Several houses were hit on Wednesday night, injuring six people, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.

The attack came amid a new diplomatic push led by Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Witkoff met Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the city of St Petersburg on Wednesday – a day after meeting Ukraine’s leader.

Three-way talks were paused in February, after which Russia stepped up attacks as Ukraine ran out of Western-supplied interceptors to defend against missiles.

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A US judge has ordered President Donald Trump to answer questions under oath in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by 11 December.

Trump is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the riot at the US Capitol in 2021.

Charles Tobin, a lawyer representing the BBC, said in court that “we still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff” with two months left in the discovery period, during which both sides are legally required to exchange information with each other on their case.

Trump cancelled a previous deposition on 16 October, citing “matters of national importance” while he was campaigning in Georgia.

The judge in the case, US Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, said that Trump must sit for the deposition by 11 December, unless the discovery period is extended.

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Iranian-state media emphasises the country’s readiness for war, amid renewed concerns in Tehran about a return to fighting.

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One person has been killed and five others wounded – three seriously – in a shooting in a Parisian suburb which authorities are investigating as “terrorism”.

A 12-year-old girl is among the wounded after several drive-by shootings took place on Friday – first in Trappes to the south-west of Paris, and then in nearby La Verrière.

The suspected attacker has been arrested but the motive remains unclear.

Meanwhile, the French government is deploying 70,000 security forces ahead of protests on Saturday which comes after recent large-scale protests over education and the cost of living were overshadowed by riots.

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US President Donald Trump has said that something will happen “fairly soon” in his country’s conflict with Iran. It comes amid reports that the US and Israeli militaries have developed plans for a major new wave of strikes.

Meanwhile, oil prices have risen to their highest for five months. Trump puts the blame on Iran, saying the country is doing all it can to drive prices up before the US midterm elections.

Reports from Saudi Arabia say that the state oil company Aramco has evacuated its headquarters in the eastern city of Dhahran, as Houthi attacks on the country continue.

And inside Yemen, the United Nations says more than two million children are malnourished.

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