Europe

Warning that Germany at risk of violent conflict with Russia

Warning that Germany at risk of violent conflict with Russia

Germany is at risk of entering ‌a violent conflict as Moscow steps up an increasingly aggressive "shadow war" against European dem...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls snap election

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls snap election

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called an early general election on Monday, bringing forward a vote that had been scheduled f...
US removes B-1 bombers from UK base amid security concerns

US removes B-1 bombers from UK base amid security concerns

The United States removed its B-1 bombers from a UK air base one ​week after several men were arrested there on ‌suspicion of prep...
Students and police clash as France struggles to quell school protests

Students and police clash as France struggles to quell school protests

Riot police clashed with high school students in cities across France on Friday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government battled...
Romania, Poland scramble jets as Russia pounds Ukraine with drones, missiles

Romania, Poland scramble jets as Russia pounds Ukraine with drones, missiles

Romania and Poland scrambled military jets to protect their airspace after Russia launched a new wave of attacks on neighboring Uk...
Sweden faces political deadlock after Andersson gives up attempt to form government

Sweden faces political deadlock after Andersson gives up attempt to form government

Attempts to form a new government in Sweden ‌hit the buffers on Monday after Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson said she ...
Serbia heads for early elections

Serbia heads for early elections

Serbia's president has resigned after more than a year of student-led protests and growing public discontent over allegations of g...
Poland Predicts Murkier Russian Escalation, Not Full Invasion

Poland Predicts Murkier Russian Escalation, Not Full Invasion

Poland's foreign minister said that Russia is preparing a significant escalation this year, warning that President Vladimir Putin ...

World

Bolsonaro will face Lula in runoff in Brazil’s presidential vote

Bolsonaro will face Lula in runoff in Brazil’s presidential vote

Right-wing Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face leftist President Luiz Inacio ‌Lula da Silva in a runoff of the presidenti...
Pete Hegseth creates Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs

Pete Hegseth creates Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon, the latest in a series of faith-r...
The world’s two most powerful men just met. How did it go?

The world’s two most powerful men just met. How did it go?

US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday, with talks on trade and ​artificia...
Pope Leo XIV faces packed 19,000-mile South American tour

Pope Leo XIV faces packed 19,000-mile South American tour

Pope Leo XIV will travel more than 19,000 miles on 14 flights during a 12-day visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in November, in...
Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia and Iran’s war planning raise fears of wider Middle East conflict

Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia and Iran’s war planning raise fears of wider Middle East conflict

Iran is preparing a broader and more forceful response in case the United States resumes large-scale military attacks, sources sai...
US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran

US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran

US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its alli...
Allies unite behind Saudi Arabia as Houthis step up attacks

Allies unite behind Saudi Arabia as Houthis step up attacks

Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani military chiefs are to meet to discuss how to support Saudi Arabia under a joint defence pact, after ...
Morocco election marked by low turnout and growing youth frustration

Morocco election marked by low turnout and growing youth frustration

Morocco’s parliamentary election has produced a new political configuration, but with turnout falling to just 38.08%, down from 50...
China warns Taiwan and human rights are ‘red lines’ ahead of Trump-Xi summit

China warns Taiwan and human rights are ‘red lines’ ahead of Trump-Xi summit

China has warned that Taiwan and human rights are among issues that cannot be challenged ahead of a summit between Chinese Preside...
Australia cracks down on student and backpacker visas to curb migration

Australia cracks down on student and backpacker visas to curb migration

Australia will stop foreign students from bringing partners and children to ​accompany them while they study and tighten working h...
Rescuers struggling to reach disaster zone after more than 160 killed in Nepal-Tibet flash floods

Rescuers struggling to reach disaster zone after more than 160 killed in Nepal-Tibet flash floods

Rescue teams are struggling to reach remote areas of Nepal after a devastating flash flood and mudslide killed more than 160 peopl...
China examines new legal tool to pursue graft suspects, assets abroad

China examines new legal tool to pursue graft suspects, assets abroad

Top Chinese lawmakers this week began their first review of a draft cross-border anti-corruption law aimed at beefing up the count...
European Parliament prize for journalism names 10 finalists

European Parliament prize for journalism names 10 finalists

Ten investigations have been shortlisted for the sixth Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, the jury announced. The fin...
MEPs want stronger crisis anticipation, cross-border medical support

MEPs want stronger crisis anticipation, cross-border medical support

Two European Parliament committees on Thursday adopted their position on the next version of the European Union's civil protection...
Europol flags new cannabis smuggling routes into Europe

Europol flags new cannabis smuggling routes into Europe

Cannabis smuggling from North America and Thailand in Europe has seen a sharp rise, driven by oversupply in legal markets and the ...
EU ministers explore new emergency migration measures

EU ministers explore new emergency migration measures

The mass influx of migrants into Ceuta over the summer has placed a controversial migration measure on EU ministers’ agenda. In...

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What is in the US-Greenland-Denmark security deal?

What is in the US-Greenland-Denmark security deal?

US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday ​that permits a larger US milita...
Swiss to vote on whether to tighten neutrality, end peacetime cooperation with NATO

Swiss to vote on whether to tighten neutrality, end peacetime cooperation with NATO

Swiss voters will decide in a referendum next month whether to approve a more restrictive form of neutrality that would block thei...
NATO’s northern flank faces mounting disruption from suspected drone activity

NATO’s northern flank faces mounting disruption from suspected drone activity

Military drones straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are stoking concerns that the war in Ukraine ...
What we know about North Korean forces joining Russia’s war against Ukraine

What we know about North Korean forces joining Russia’s war against Ukraine

North Korea has deployed troops, weapons and now, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official, a missile unit to support Russia...

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Athletics Malta announces Road Running League 2026/2027

Athletics Malta announces Road Running League 2026/2027

Athletics Malta has announced the Road Running League for the 2026/2027 season, with the six-race series set to be retained after ...
Music world mourns Dolly Parton, queen of country music

Music world mourns Dolly Parton, queen of country music

Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: "Little Tiny Tasseltop," an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair...
Dutch pull out of ‘no longer neutral’ Eurovision

Dutch pull out of ‘no longer neutral’ Eurovision

Dutch state broadcaster Avrotros said on Monday that the Netherlands will not be taking part in next year's Eurovision Song Contes...
Princess Diana’s brother to publish book about her life

Princess Diana’s brother to publish book about her life

Charles Spencer, the brother of Britain's late Princess Diana, is to publish a book about his sister's life, promising to divulge ...
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