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The EU has imposed a wide range of trade bans on key exports to Russia, such as microchips, drones, heavy trucks and luxury bags.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has struck a new deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and he said it would pave the way for a new chapter in London’s relationship with the bloc.

The 37-year-old politician is touted as a new hope for Italy’s weakened left. But is that enough to convince her party’s wearier voters?

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Monday’s front pages report on PM Rishi Sunak’s expected announcement of his Northern Ireland Brexit deal later today after…

The von der Leyen-Sunak meeting is the second one in less than two weeks and comes after a flurry of cross-Channel talks between Maro? ?ef?ovi?, the EU’s main Brexit negotiator, and his British interlocutor, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, since the beginning of the year.

The PM still faces hurdles to get it over the line.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen will meet in the UK on Monday to discuss changes to the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol, they said in a joint statement, raising hopes a deal can be reached.

At least 60 people died, including 12 children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants to Europe crashed against rocks near the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said.

The EU on Saturday announced additional sanctions against Russia’s Wagner mercenary organisation for “human rights abuses” in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Ukraine.

The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a “boundary-pushing” event.

UNESCO declared Manx Gaelic extinct in 2009. Years later, a letter from a primary school on the Isle of Man proved them wrong, so the organisation took a step back and set up a new category: revitalised languages.

Discussions among ambassadors took longer than expected due to a proposed ban on imports of Russian-made synthetic rubber.

Biden makes his way to Kyiv as Europe marks one year since the Ukraine war began and Brexit reappears on the agenda, if not slightly prematurely. #StateOfTheUnion

Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station.

Despite nine sets of sanctions imposed by the European Union, the Russian economy only experienced a small contraction of its GDP in 2022. The “resilience” of the Russian economy was hailed on Tuesday by President Vladimir Putin during his state of the nation address. However, certain Western observers and politicians point out blind spots in the official statistics provided by Moscow.

Francesco Giorgi remains charged with participation in a criminal organisation, corruption and money laundering.

They were parachuted to the frontline as Wagner Group fighters after six weeks of ‘very tough training’ with assault rifles, machine guns and mines.

The report published by engineering company Danfoss says that Europe could save up to EUR67bn by 2050 if it captured excess heat.

Telecoms companies argue that businesses, such as Netflix, should contribute more due to their bandwidth usage.

The European Union’s two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users’ data.

App to block abuse images gets £1.8m EU funding The EU has granted £1.8m in funding to a project developing a new app designed to…

RB Leipzig defender Josko Gvardiol powered home a towering header in 70th-minute to earn them a 1-1 draw against visitors Manchester City in their Champions League Round of 16 first leg on Wednesday.

A teenage pupil stabbed to death a teacher in the middle of a lesson at a school in southwest France on Wednesday, the regional prosecutor said.

The EU, Norway and Switzerland issued last year over 250,000 granting either refugee status or subsidiary protection.

Germany on Wednesday said it was expelling two diplomats from the Iranian embassy in Berlin over the death sentence an Iranian court handed down against an Iranian-German national.