Citing Presence of Russian Mercenaries, Britain to Withdraw Troops From Mali
Britain is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Mali, saying the country´s reliance on Russian mercenaries is undermining stability.
Britain is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Mali, saying the country´s reliance on Russian mercenaries is undermining stability.
The EU´s border agency said the number of illegal migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year.
Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water.
A bomb exploded on a major pedestrian avenue in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday, killing six people and wounding dozens more.
The UK fell silent on Remembrance Sunday as King Charles III led the nation in honouring servicemen and women who lost their lives.
Britain’s Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt warned of spending cuts and tax increases for cash-strapped Britons despite a looming recession.
German lawmakers approved a plan to keep the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April.
Norwegian police said two people tried in vain to glue themselves to Edvard Munch´s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream”.
German customs officials have seized 635 kilograms of cocaine among bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities said Monday.
An attack Monday by unknown hackers idled the website of the Polish government office regulating public investment.
Voters in Germany’s main financial center, Frankfurt, have removed the city’s mayor who is on trial in a corruption case.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are stepping up their strikes in a fiercely contested region of eastern Ukraine, worsening the already tough conditions for residents and the defending army following Moscow’s illegal annexation and declaration of martial law in Donetsk province, Ukrainian authorities said.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government’s decision on vehicle license plates.
Polish and South Korean officials have signed initial agreements to develop a nuclear power plant in Poland.
Germany is postponing decisions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions amid strong opposition to the idea of a universal speed limit.
The former hotel in eastern Germany was supposed to be used as accommodation for refugee families starting next week.
Authorities in Belarus added 625 people, most of them with political opposition ties, to an official list of alleged “extremists” Friday.
Norway’s security agency said Tuesday it has detained a man who entered the country as Brazilian but is suspected of being a Russian spy.
Norwegian police placed into custody two more Russians on suspicion of taking photographs of a restricted military installation.
The court said the defendants were influenced “by Christian fundamentalism” and by the predictions of a Turkish fortune-teller.
MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, killing both crewmembers, authorities said. It was the second time in less than a week that a combat jet crashed in a residential area in Russia.
Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister “would be a historic landmark” due to his migration background and religion, according to AFP.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Weapons shortages across Europe could force hard choices for Ukraine’s allies as they balance their support for Ukraine against the risk that Russia could target them next.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) – Voters in Slovenia on Sunday cast ballots to elect a new president of the European Union nation, with three main contenders leading the race but no clear winner in sight.
BERLIN (AP) – Tens of thousands of people gathered in Germany’s capital Saturday to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran, where a movement sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police has evolved into a challenge to the Islamic Republic.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the city of Kherson to leave “immediately” Saturday ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counter-offensive to recapture one of the first urban areas Russia took after invading the country.
Britain’s defense secretary revealed Thursday that a Russian fighter jet released a missile near an RAF aircraft last month.
The head of Germany’s national cybersecurity agency has been dismissed following reports of possible ties to Russian intelligence.
Two people were killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing Tuesday in southwestern Germany, police said.
A Russian warplane crashed Monday into a residential area in a city on the Sea of Azov after suffering engine failure, reports claim.
A leading Belarusian political activist has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for opposing President Alexander Lukashenko´s regime.
Four Russian nationals were arrested after they were seen taking pictures that are subject to a ban on photography in central Norway.
New Zealand’s arts council ended funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, saying it was “located within a canon of imperialism.”
LONDON (AP) – Three climate activists appeared in a London court on Saturday on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in the National Gallery.
(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was “doing everything right” in its nearly eight-month invasion of Ukraine despite a string of embarrassing defeats against Kyiv’s forces, who will receive $725 million in new U.S. military assistance.
A new gas project off Africa’s western coast may only be 80% complete, but it has already drawn visits from the leaders of Poland and Germany.
Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via the one pipe of Germany-bound Nord Stream that didn’t explode, Putin says.
A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists four years ago.
Airbus, Air France go on trial on manslaughter charges for the crash of a Rio-Paris flight that plunged into the Atlantic amid thunderstorms.
A govt-appointed expert panel proposed a two-stage system for distributing up to 200 billion euros in subsidies to easeb high energy prices.