PERTH, Australia (AP) – Islam Makhachev defied a rowdy crowd and a sustained challenge from Alexander Volkanovski on Sunday to cement his supremacy in the UFC lightweight division in a gruelling fight in Perth, Western Australia.
Berliners have long been frustrated by the German capital’s notoriously dysfunctional ways, which have been defying clichés of German efficiency for years and have made the city the laughing stock of the rest of the country.
Sudan’s ruling military concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country, two Sudanese officials said Saturday.
The Finnish president said in an interview published Saturday that he trusts that Finland and Sweden will be admitted into NATO by July, and hinted that he wants the United States to put pressure on Turkey to approve their membership bids.
Some demonstrators walked as families through the French capital’s Place de la Republique and carried emotional banners. “I don’t want my parents to die at work,” read one, held by a teenage boy.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.
BERLIN (AP) – Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died. He was 95.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a small coal-mining town on Ukraine’s eastern front line, a fight for strategic superiority is being waged in a battlefield steeped with symbolism as the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion nears.
A EU lawmaker linked to a corruption scandal that rocked the bloc’s Parliament in December was detained for questioning Friday.
Ukraine Prez making a surprise trip to London in a bid to get more advanced weapons which will see meetings with parliament and the King.
Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of Turkey hit rocks in high winds.
Oil-rich Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package.
European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel for organized crime, they say.
“There will be planes, too,” Reznikov predicted. “The question is just what kind exactly… Consider that this mission is already completed.”
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cypriots on Sunday began voting for their eighth president in the ethnically divided island’s 63-year history as an independent republic, with three front-runners each portraying themselves as the safest bet to guide the country through turbulent economic times and to seek peace with breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
LONDON (AP) – A Royal Navy warship has returned to port in Britain after several sailors got sick from the vessel’s drinking water, officials said Saturday.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday.
Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul.
One boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany, police said Friday.
The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank chugged ahead with another outsized interest rate hike Thursday and vowed more to come, underlining its drive to subdue inflation even as the European economy slows and the U.S. Federal Reserve eases its pace of increases.
LONDON (AP) – The Bank of England raised interest rates by half a percentage point Thursday as it sought to tame double-digit inflation that is fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank is set for another large interest rate increase to fight painfully high inflation even after the U.S. Federal Reserve slowed its pace, a divergence that underlines Europe’s later start and could speed the euro’s rebound from recent lows against the dollar.
VIENNA (AP) – Austria’s government said Thursday that it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to UN agencies in the city, to leave the country.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank missiles in the Gulf of Oman coming from Iran heading to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Thursday, the latest such interdiction amid the Mideast nation´s long-running war.
Lawmakers in Finland approved amendments Wednesday that will make it substantially easier for people to change their legal gender.
Rescuers have located the body of a second airman missing in a deadly training accident in southwestern Greece.
Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three-month period, official figures showed Monday.
Some 200 people had to be evacuated as fire crews on Monday extinguished a fire that engulfed a camp where hundreds of migrant workers live.
Nadhim Zahawi out amid allegations he settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury.
Retired army General Petr Pavel defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in a runoff vote on Saturday to become the new Czech president.
Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.
Mohammad Farooq was charged with planning to attack an air force base and taking a home-made bomb to a hospital maternity ward.
Hunt said taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some for immediate tax breaks.
Turkey summoned the Danish ambassador over reports that an anti-Islam activist would be allowed to burn the Quran in Copenhagen.
The disappearance of the impounded yacht took place months ago but nobody noticed, as a similar-looking yacht had been moored in its place.
Berlin Airport canceled all flights Wednesday after ground staff went on strike to press their demands for higher pay.
Finland’s top diplomat appeared to suggest that the country may have to consider joining NATO without Sweden after objections from Turkey.
Bulgaria will hold another parliamentary election – its fifth in two years – after the Socialist Party said it failed to form a government.
