Publishing a video of the action on Twitter, the environmental protest group Last Generation wrote: "If it takes a painting –- with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it -– to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all: Then we'll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting!"

Just weeks after failing in a first attempt to lead the ruling Tories, Sunak could cap a stunning reversal in fortunes by winning the leadership as early as Monday afternoon, following ex-premier Johnson's unexpected move late Sunday.

All 173 passengers and crew of Korean Air flight KE631 from Incheon were evacuated safely after the Airbus A330 aircraft overshot the runway on Sunday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said in a report.

Senior Asia-Pacific leaders have renewed their countries' commitment to implementing disability-inclusive development from the grassroots up over the coming decade.

The handover of power from outgoing premier Mario Draghi to Meloni will take place at Rome's Chigi Palace and a first cabinet meeting will follow shortly afterwards.

Here are the men who will rule Beijing for the next five years, in order of seniority.

Asked if Johnson would run, Heaton Harris said: "Yes, I think so."

 "The results of the Party Congress fully confirm your high political authority, as well as the unity of the party you lead," Putin told Xi, according to the Kremlin's website.

After talks in Perth, Kishida and Albanese signed a joint declaration in which Japan and Australia agreed to deepen trilateral security relations with the United States and to take action against countries violating international rules and norms.

President Xi walked at the head of the group at the presentation event for the CCP's seven-member Standing Committee, a position reserved for the party's general secretary.

Former prime minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming to launch an audacious political comeback just weeks after leaving office, met ex-finance minister Sunak to discuss the race, the BBC and others reported. 

Xi is all but certain to be unveiled as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party again -- tilting the country decisively back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among its elite.

British Conservative politician Rishi Sunak late Friday reached the minimum threshold to run for party leader, as former prime minister Boris Johnson targeted an audacious comeback.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Australia on Saturday, where he is expected to ink a revamped security deal with his Australian counterpart to address China's rapidly growing military clout.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday accused Russia of "deliberately delaying" the export of grain from Ukrainian ports bound for countries in Africa and Asia.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold emergency talks in Jakarta next week to discuss strife-torn Myanmar ahead of November's ASEAN leaders' summit, diplomatic sources said Friday.

A US judge in Texas ruled on Friday that people killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes are legally considered "crime victims," a designation that will determine what remedies should be imposed.

Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto met with United States Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin on Thursday to discuss opportunities for the countries to coordinate in pursuit of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific and to bolster bilateral ties.

Xi's break with precedent to rule beyond a decade was set in motion when he abandoned presidential term limits in 2018. His norm-busting as China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong has made it even harder to predict who will join him on the standing committee.

Now he has to weigh up whether he can convince Britain's governing party he is the man to save it from chaos.

The US assessment of the timing of a potential attack by China against Taiwan has drawn renewed attention after Blinken said Monday, two days before the interview, that he believed Beijing was "determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline."

Arriving at an EU summit, Macron said he would not comment on British domestic politics but added: "It is important that Great Britain regains political stability very quickly, and that is all I wish."

"I recognise that given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party," Truss said.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said Indonesia appreciated “Australia’s reaffirmation of its commitment to support a peaceful resolution to the conflict based on a two-state solution".

US presidents have approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan since 2017 as China has ramped up military pressure on the democratically-governed island Beijing claims as its own territory.

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament on Oct. 10th and called for snap polls, saying an election would end years of political instability.

The departure of Suella Braverman, over a "technical" breach of government rules, means Truss has now lost two of her most senior ministers in less than a week, both replaced by politicians who had not backed her for the leadership.