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Denmark’s former Queen Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024, has been admitted to Rigshospitalet due to chest pain described as angina. The 86-year-old monarch will remain hospitalised over the weekend for observation. Her health has been a concern following major surgery last year, but she is reportedly in good spirits.
Moscow has initiated a significant daytime aerial assault on Ukraine, deploying hundreds of drones, resulting in at least three fatalities and 12 injuries. Ukrainian military intelligence warns of a sustained attack on critical infrastructure, with drones detected from various directions, including Belarus.
Andriy Yermak, former chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appeared in court as prosecutors seek his arrest over allegations of a $10.5 million money-laundering scheme linked to a luxury housing project. Yermak denied the charges and a hearing is set to continue on Wednesday.
Elon Musk visited the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday and later addressed anti-Semitism online at an event in Poland, just weeks after sparking a firestorm by endorsing a anti-Jewish conspiracy theory on his social media platform X.
The Italian was remanded in custody ahead of sentence at Inner London crown court on January 31.
At least 25 people were killed Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported Sunday.
He’s shown his support.
For Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, 2024 has started with renewed bombardment by Russian missiles. But inhabitants, loathe to leave again, are adapting to life with such dangers. A key question is education, which has been almost exclusively online for the past two years. Many school buildings have been destroyed and all are considered unsafe. So the city, and its region, are taking education underground – quite literally. Gulliver Cragg reports.
The trial of suspects allegedly complicit in the planning of the 2018 Trèbes and Carcassonne terrorist attacks in the south of France opens on Monday in Paris. Three men were shot dead in a car park and a supermarket, and a receptionist was taken hostage until a gendarme, Arnaud Beltrame, volunteered to take the place of the captive at the cost of his life. FRANCE 24’s Claire Paccalin reports.
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