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The object, identified as a “live” device, prompted the intervention of the national bomb squad, who destroyed it.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban vetoed a €50bn aid package for Kyiv. Speculations suggest his move was influenced by the EU’s retention of €20bn funds for Hungary.

UK demands clarity after jailed British-Russian activist vanishes from prison UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has demanded Russia to disclose the location of jailed opposition…

US weapons sales abroad hit record high in 2023, boosted by Ukraine war Overseas sales of US weapons experienced a significant surge last year, reaching…

Are we heading for WW3? Are we in a pre war world? Trump the latest to issue warnings world on the brink of next world…

Tractors block major roads in Europe as farmers begin ‘siege of Paris’ French farmers are strategically deploying hundreds of tractors to start a major road…

Istanbul church attack: Gunmen kill one person during Sunday morning mass A Catholic church in Istanbul was targeted by two gunmen during morning mass, leaving…

Finns headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, an office whose importance has grown as tensions increased with neighbouring Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. 

Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine’s security service reported.  Yet, the current investigation dates back to August 2022, and “anti-corruption activists do say that things have improved in terms of defence procurement”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Kyiv-Ukraine, Gulliver Cragg. 

A late painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has resurfaced in a private collection and will be sold in April, Viennese auction house Kinsky said Thursday. 

EXCLUSIVE: Russian opposition leader Ilya Ponomarev criticises Western allies for their cautious stance on the Ukraine conflict, singling out the United States and Germany, while Hungary’s delayed approval of Sweden’s NATO membership raises concerns among alliance partners.

UN judges on Friday will rule on South Africa’s request for emergency measures against Israel, which is accused at the World Court of state-led genocide for its military operation in Gaza.

A young Russian woman was jailed for 27 years on Thursday for delivering a bomb that exploded in the hands of a pro-war military blogger last year and killed him on the spot.

France’s Constitutional Council on Thursday rejected several measures in a divisive new immigration law that critics call inhumane, in a new blow to President Emmanuel Macron and his government.

Mr Sunak warned the ECHR: “I’ve been very clear, I won’t let a foreign court stop us from getting flights up and running and establishing that deterrent.”

The UK’s top general has warned ordinary citizens could be drafted if a war breaks out.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday his government will propose legislation to liberalise a near-total abortion ban and ease restrictions on the morning-after pill, which would dramatically reverse the previous administration’s policies.

A group of French farmers protested near the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.

The 88-year-old has been seen by several people drinking coffee at different spots in Krems an der Donau, Austria, according to local media reports.

Turkey’s parliament is widely expected to approve Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delays.

French farmers have engaged in a standoff with the government to express anger over a perceived lack of respect, rising costs and suffocating EU regulation. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal seeks to calm the protesters while the far-right National Rally hopes to take advantage of their anger, just five months before the European elections.

German train drivers began on Wednesday their longest-ever strike, piling on travel misery for thousands of passengers in an escalating industrial dispute that economic experts warn could cost the economy up to a billion euros ($1.1 billion).

EU agriculture ministers will discuss on Tuesday how to resolve European farmers’ growing discontent as Brussels scrambles to address the issue ahead of elections this year. Europe’s farmers are in revolt. The fury has led to road blockages and tractor parades in the past few weeks, with farmers taking their protests to the street in France, Germany, Poland and Romania, after the Netherlands earlier.

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.