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Poland´s defense minister signed a deal to buy a second batch of U.S Abrams main battle tanks as Warsaw beefs up its defensive capabilities.Poland´s defense minister signed a deal to buy a second batch of U.S Abrams main battle tanks as Warsaw beefs up its defensive capabilities.

A pilot, two British visitors and a Sydney woman have been identified as the four people killed in a collision of two helicopters.

“We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by Shaheds” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address late Monday.

In a rare announcement, Russia said 63 servicemen were killed “as a result of a strike by four missiles” in the occupied city of Makiivka.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.

Benedict did more to tackle predator priests than any of his predecessors combined, and especially more than John Paul, according to the Associated Press.

The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands.

LONDON (AP) – Britain has had a tough 12 months and its problems will not “go away” in 2023 – but the coronation of King Charles III will help bring the country together, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Saturday in his New Year message.

France and England will implement tougher COVID-19 measures for passengers arriving from China, authorities said Friday.

Spain will require all air passengers coming from China to have negative COVID-19 tests or proof of vaccination, the government said Friday.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw the commissioning of new warships and vowed Thursday to further strengthen his country’s navy.

(AFP) – A fresh barrage of Russian missiles battered Ukraine on Thursday, wounding at least five people including a teenager and cutting electricity in the west.

Finland’s first floating liquefied natural gas terminal was moored Wednesday at the southern port of Inkoo to replace Russian gas imports.

A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis on Wednesday said his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, is “very sick,” and he asked the faithful to pray for the retired pontiff so God will comfort him “to the very end.”

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Russian military reported on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the airbase has been targeted this month, raising questions about the effectiveness of Russia´s air defenses if drones can fly that far into the country.

A Christmas Eve shooting at a pub in northwest England killed a young woman and wounded three men, police said Sunday.

BOBRYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian shells pummeled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 58 more in the city that Moscow’s forces were forced to abandon last month.

(AFP) – If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England’s southeastern shores each year, after crossing the Channel in small boats, will face swift deportation to Rwanda.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.

Air travelers faced possible delays at U.K. airports Friday as government employees who check passports went on strike.

Climate activists said Wednesday that they have sawn off the tip of the Christmas tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.

Musician Terry Hall, who helped create of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63.

Ukraine is erasing the vestiges of Russian influence by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor its own heroes.

Germany is readying decades-old armored personnel carriers for a key NATO unit after their modern replacements suffered a mass breakdown.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the West should work to degrade Russia, citing the drones that Iran has been providing to Moscow.

The EU accused Facebook parent Meta of breaching the bloc’s antitrust rules by distorting competition in the online classified ads business.

A growing number of Syrian Kurds are going to Europe on a winding course that includes Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and a boat to Spain.

STOCKHOLM (AP) – Officials at a Swedish zoo managed to get three chimpanzees who had broken out of their enclosure back into a secure space, but four others were shot dead.

(AFP) – Ukraine worked Saturday to restore electricity and water supplies after Russia’s latest wave of attacks pitched multiple cities into darkness and forced people to endure sub-zero temperatures without heating or running water.

No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.

The New Democracy party suspended one of its European Parliament members, pending the outcome of an investigation.

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon urged Beirut to ensure a “speedy” investigation into an Irish soldier’s shooting death near the Israeli border.

A huge aquarium in the center of Berlin burst Friday, causing a wave of devastation in and around the Sea Life tourist attraction.