EUROPE

15 die in migrant boat collision: Authorities

A Greek Coast Guard vessel and a boat carrying migrants have collided in the Aegean Sea, killing 15 people, authorities said on Wednesday, updating the previous toll. The incident occurred on Tuesday off the island of Chios, near Turkiye. "The pilot of a high-speed boat without navigation lights and carrying foreign passengers failed to comply with the Coast Guard's visual and audible signals," according to a Coast Guard statement. Fourteen bodies were retrieved from the sea, including three women. Another woman who was plucked out alive later died of her injuries, the coastguard said. Among those rescued were 11 children who have been taken to hospital.

UNITED STATES

Trump meets with Colombian president

US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro described their nearly two-hour closed-door talks at the White House on Tuesday as friendly, signaling a warming of relations after months of tension between the two countries. "We had a very good meeting,"Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "I thought he (Petro) was terrific." Petro said at a news conference at the Colombian Embassy in Washington that the two leaders discussed cooperation on counternarcotics efforts and ways to support economic and energy projects related to Venezuela. The meeting ended with "a positive and optimistic view", said Petro.

LIBYA

Son of late ruler Gaddafi killed by gang

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's late longtime ruler, was killed on Tuesday by gunmen who stormed his home in western Libya's Zintan, his lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi told AFP. "He was killed today at 2 pm … in Zintan in his home by a four-man commando," Ceccaldi said. Saif al-Islam, 53, had been seen by some as his father's successor, despite being targeted by a warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. In 2021, he announced he would run for president, but those elections were indefinitely postponed. His adviser, Abdullah Othman Abdurrahim, told Libya's Al-Ahrar television channel that the four unidentified men had stormed the home before "disabling surveillance cameras, then executed him". It remained unclear who was behind the killing.