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European leaders put on a show of support for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as they expressed scepticism about parts of the US proposal to end Russia's nearly…
Transatlantic tensions flared again as European Union leaders reacted sharply to the new US security strategy.
Four European Union nations have pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest after organisers opted not to vote on Israel's future participation, allowing it to take…
Last month, Nuremberg, a film about the Nazi war crime trials, was released to critical acclaim.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, that if Germany does not start paying compensation to victims of the Second World War, his…
Something may be afoot in the Far East.
A building in Upper Austria that served as a brothel for inmates of the Gusen concentration camp until 1945 has come up for sale.
Let us begin with the numbers.
A major fire in seven residential towers in Hong Kong has left at least 55 people confirmed dead, dozens severely wounded and around 300 people still missing.
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced eight people to life in prison over huge 2022 explosions that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge, an attack both Kyiv and…
No one knows exactly how or when the Ukraine war will end. But all realistic scenarios are now unfavourable to Kyiv.
"Confrontation with Russia has gone up a notch,” according to French President Emmanuel Macron.
Trump set out the original peace plan, following lengthy bilateral negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin.
It didn’t take long for the predictable chorus of indignation to make itself heard.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boasted "tremendous" progress after a day of meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva on a proposal to halt the…
Our specialist writer today is Dr Robert Brüll, CEO of FibreCoat, a German company which develops advanced metals technology used in space, defence and other industries.
France's chief of staff of the armed forces, General Fabien Mandon, has urged the country’s mayors to begin conditioning the population for "future conflicts".
It had been their major goal since their summer 2024 offensive.
Russia’s consulate in the Polish city of Gdańsk has been closed in retaliation for explosions on railway lines, Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski…
The explosions that damaged railway tracks in the east of Poland were the work of two Ukrainians working for Russia, according to the Polish authorities.
“Those who fired on civilians generally had no ideological motivation.
Europe is very upset about President Donald Trump’s decision to start blowing up drug boats in the Caribbean. Very upset.
Kevin Myers remembers his time as a war correspondent in the civil wars of the former Yugoslavia and wonders if the story of criminals selling "war vacations" to…
Recent footage of shabby Russian troops advancing in Pokrovsk on motorcycles, converted pickup trucks and other civilian vehicles has drawn comparisons with familiar…
The war in Ukraine is not just a catastrophe;
A university in Germany has abruptly cancelled an event with an Israeli survivor of a Hamas massacre in 2023, saying the safety of the participants could not be…
Twenty years ago, Ahmad al-Shara — once known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani — was locked up at the US-run Camp Bucca in Iraq, branded a terrorist and an enemy of…
The European Commission is preparing for the creation of an intelligence service designed to work with European Union member states' intelligence services.
Austrian law enforcement has seized a number of weapons that were apparently meant to be used in a terror attack by Hamas sympathisers in Europe.
There is a famous—if apocryphal—quote attributed to Lenin: "There are decades where nothing happens and then there are weeks where decades happen.
