Europe

Today’s debates at Westminster over the UK’s outlook on the Israel-Gaza conflict are rooted in domestic politics. The genesis of the whole thing is what is known as an Opposition Day debate which the Scottish National Party have been granted. Even before the row of last week about Labour’s candidate in the Rochdale by-election who […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday asked India to play a leading role in building international partnerships to meet the unprecedented challenges brought by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and changes in climate and energy security. “We view India as one of the main pillars of stability […]

Police forces have searched properties in four German states in a major raid against suspected members of a people-smuggling gang. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the operation on Wednesday morning in North Rhine Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein was aimed at executing several European arrest warrants. Police authorities in France and Belgium also participated, the […]

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed an act on the protection of Ukrainian refugees, extending the legality of their stay from March 4 until June 30, Poland’s Presidential Office said on Feb. 20. Poland hosts around 1 million Ukrainians who fled from Russia’s war, the highest number of all countries. The UN records approximately 6 million […]

Russian attacks against Ukraine killed three people and injured at least 22 over the past day, regional authorities reported early on Feb. 21. Russia targeted a total of nine Ukrainian oblasts — Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Sumy. Casualties were reported in the latter five regions. Russian troops launched 19 strikes […]

The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit at a court in the Arctic city of Salekhard contesting officials’ refusal to release her son’s body, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported Wednesday. A closed-door hearing has been scheduled for March 4, the report said, quoting court officials. Lyudmila Navalnaya has been […]

Footage of a burning bus in Indonesia shows a fire in January 2023 that was reportedly caused by an electrical fault, contrary to social media posts that falsely claim the vehicle was torched over its owner’s support for a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. The blaze happened nearly a year before the bus company’s […]

Residents of Cape Town woke up to a pungent, sewage-like smell engulfing their city on Monday morning. The source? A ship from Brazil carrying 19,000 cattle had anchored in the South African city the night before, in order to reload on animal feed. After performing an assessment on board the Al Kuwait, staff from a […]

A charity has hailed a personal trainer who is back home after becoming the first person to climb backwards up and down Africa’s highest mountain. Ben Stewart, 32, from Northampton, reversed to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, and back, to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. Mr Stewart had already conquered Britain’s […]

Finnish reservists of the Guard Jaeger Regiment stand at a shooting range as they take part in a military exercise at the Santahamina military base in Helsinki, Finland on March 7, 2023.Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP/Getty Images Finland plans to open new shooting ranges due to a surge in interest following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Nordic country […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean government on Wednesday warned thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately or face legal action after their collective walkouts caused cancellations of surgeries and disrupted other hospital operations. About 7,800 medical interns and residents in South Korea have walked off their jobs this week to […]