A British embassy convoy was hit by gunfire during an attempted hijacking outside the capital Tripoli on the way to the Tunisian border, but no-one was injured in the incident, an embassy official said on Sunday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced hope on Monday of finding common cause with India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hailing the nations’ ties as “indispensable” despite recent friction. Mr Kerry, who heads Tuesday to New Delhi in the highest-level US contact yet with the right-leaning government that took …

Secretary of State John Kerry urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to stop the flow of heavy weapons and rocket and artillery fire from Russia into Ukraine.