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Finland’s Parliament gave final approval to the bid to join NATO, with lawmakers signing off on membership and the required legislation.

The UK’s former health minister denied wrongdoing after leaked messages purported to show that he ignored advice on care home covid tests.

Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian forces as fighting for the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut is getting ever more brutal with Russia.

A train in Greece carrying hundreds of people, including many university students, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train, killing 36.

British police said they have launched a major search for a two-month-old baby after officers arrested the infant’s mother and her boyfriend.

Alexander Lukashenko will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday, kicking off a three-day trip in which he will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) – A planned concert by Slovenia’s popular bank Laibach in Ukraine next month has been cancelled after the group angered Ukrainians with remarks interpreted to suggest that Kiyv was a client state fighting a war for its Western masters.

Asked about workers who don’t speak the language when they come to Germany, Chancellor Scholz said it should not be seen as a hurdle if people arrive in the country speaking English first and then acquire German later on.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer and former professional kickboxer who is detained in Romania on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, arrived Monday at an appeals court in the capital Bucharest to challenge a decision last week to extend for a third time his detention by 30 days.

VUHLEDAR, Ukraine (AP) – The murky water oh so slowly trickles from the filthy drainpipe into her grimy container — the ticking seconds ramping up the risk that Emilia Budskaya could lose life or limb to Russian artillery strikes torturing her front-line city in eastern Ukraine.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine targeting more officials and organizations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones, as well as restricting trade on products that could be used by the armed forces.

ROME (AP) – The Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after a wooden migrant boat broke apart in rough seas Sunday near the southern coast of Italy´s mainland, authorities reported.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

NEW YORK (AP) – A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said.

(AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Friday to do everything to defeat Russia this year, as the first Leopard tanks arrived in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.

(AFP) – China called Friday for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but several Western powers rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing’s closening ties to Moscow.

President Saied has ordered officials to tackle illegal migration after alleging “a criminal plot” to “change Tunisia’s demographic make-up”.

Emmanuel Macron was under fire on Friday for handing billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the country’s highest order of merit.

Prosecutors dropped their case over supplying automatic weapons to Islamic State extremists who went on a bloody rampage in Paris in 2015.

A high school student was arrested for allegedly stabbing a female teacher in front of other students in a classroom in southwestern France.

Germany said Wednesday that it is expelling two Iranian diplomats over the death sentence imposed in Iran against one of its citizens.

The death toll rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000.

The trains for Spain’s RENFE network were redesigned to fit the nation’s rail network, but the changes have delayed delivery of the units.

Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine´s ex-President Petro Poroshenko managed to contact Angela Merkel by phone.

Police found 43 migrants hidden in a van just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck.

LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

MUNICH (AP) — Finland’s defence minister said Saturday that his country will join NATO without waiting for Sweden if its Nordic neighbour’s accession is held up by the Turkish government.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country – defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day. Hours later, they’ve reached 60.

Former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be allowed to run for Labour in the next national election.

A Polish mother of seven has successfully given birth to premature quintuplets, hospital officials in southern Poland said Tuesday.

Officials from India´s Income Tax department began conducting searches Tuesday at the BBC´s offices in the capital, New Delhi.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it.

A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face by a ballet director after he apparently took offense at a review she wrote.

Moldova´s President outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to use external saboteurs to overthrow her country’s government.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.