Germany Deports Afghan Criminal Migrants for First Time Since Taliban Takeover
Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power.
Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power.
The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said.
Two suspects involved in an attack on a synagogue in southern France at the weekend were charged late Wednesday and remain in custody, Paris anti-terror prosecutors said.
The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom announced plans on Wednesday to draw up a treaty meant to deepen ties between the two nations.
Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say.
Flights were grounded, civil servants were locked out of their computers and police officers resorted to texting one another in the Netherlands on Wednesday as a network outage at the Ministry of Defense.
Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, on possible charges including manslaughter, his lawyer said Monday.
Marseille -– A museum in southern French city Marseille is inviting visitors to discover Europe’s relationship to the naturist lifestyle by wandering its halls in the nude.
Icelandic rescuers worked by hand Monday to cut through the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they searched for two tourists missing for more than 24 hours since a glacier in the southeastern part of the island caved in, killing one person and severely injuring another.
A Pakistani judge on Monday acquitted a man who was charged with spreading misinformation about the Southport stabbing in England.
Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure, killing at least three people.
Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured.
The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants that rammed into a patrol boat.
The French government ordered police reinforcements to protect Jewish places of worship after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue.
Prosecutors in Italy have opened an investigation into multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily.
Snipers from Russia’s national guard on Friday killed four inmates who had seized prison guards as hostages and declared allegiance to ISIS.
BERLIN (AP) – Security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat,” and all staff not essential to missions have been sent home as a precaution, NATO said.
The Italian coast guard said Thursday the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht.
A Greek oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attacks, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze.
Some new Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire at the enemy. Others, according to commanders and fellow fighters, struggle to assemble weapons.
Denmark and Sweden vowed to go after gang leaders living abroad, whom they say are hiring teenagers in Sweden to carry out shootings in Denmark.
Two men have been charged in Germany with planning an attack in Sweden for an ISIS affiliate in response to Qur’an burnings.
Moscow came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported.
Authorities on the Greek island of Crete detained 76 migrants early Tuesday after they arrived on three boats as smugglers seek new routes.
A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
British tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday.
A luxury superyacht sailboat carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons from overcrowding as hundreds of people are jailed over the anti-migration riots.
Police in Northern Ireland ordered the evacuation of more than 400 homes to remove what is suspected to be a World War II-era bomb.
Ukraine has destroyed a bridge in Russia’s Kursk region and struck a second one nearby, less than two weeks into its cross-border incursion.
At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany.
A fire broke out Saturday on the roof of Somerset House, a historic arts venue on the River Thames in central London.
A Russian missile strike sparked a blaze in the Ukrainian city of Sumy Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continued to push into Russian territory.
Croatia will reintroduce a two-month compulsory military service starting January 1 next year, the country’s Defense Minister said.
Authorities in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk on Friday urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army is quickly closing in.
Police say they recovered 29 meth tablets disguised as pineapple sweets that were mistakenly handed out to the public in charity packs.
Port operator DP World reported Thursday its half-year profits fell by nearly 60%, in part over ongoing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Climate activists staged protests at several German airports on Thursday, forcing a temporary halt to flights.
Polish prosecutors said they had indicted a Russian-Spanish man on espionage charges, after Poland freed him from prison earlier this month.
Wildfire raged across the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations.