Category: Europe

Russia has launched new, “wide scale” missile strikes on Ukraine’s civilian energy sites, causing power outages nationwide, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his regular video address late Saturday. Ukrainian authorities say nearly 1.5 million households across the country have been left without electricity. But Zelenskyy said most of the Russian missiles and drones were […]

London-Contenders to succeed British Prime Minister Liz Truss canvassed for support Friday, with her predecessor Boris Johnson reportedly considering a sensational comeback as he picks up dozens of early nominations from Conservative MPs. Truss’s announcement Thursday that she will resign after less than seven weeks in office has also prompted renewed calls from opposition parties […]

BERLIN: Tens of thousands of protesters in six German cities gathered on Saturday to demand a more just distribution of government funds to deal with rising energy prices and living costs and a faster transition away from fossil fuels. Protesters marched in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hannover, Stuttgart, Dresden and Frankfurt-am-Main, holding signs bearing slogans on everything […]

Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her coalition allies have met President Sergio Mattarella and say they are ready to form a government “as quickly as possible”. He is set to ask Ms Meloni in the coming hours to become prime minister. Veteran ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended the brief talks, despite shaking the coalition’s […]

After the bottlenecks at the gas stations, France now also faces a shortage of medicines. The supply of drugs Doliprane and Efferalgan has been strained since July, but a winter wave of illness is just around the corner that could exacerbate the problem further. Citing a communication from the National Agency for Safety of Medicines […]

European Union leaders have failed to reach an agreement on a plan to help protect their citizens from surging energy prices, despite hours of wrangling at a summit in Brussels. The group’s leaders emerged from their second summit in as many weeks at about 2am in Brussels (00:00 GMT) with a “roadmap” to agreeing on […]

Spain and France have struck a new deal to build an underwater gas pipeline from Barcelona to Marseille, cancelling a long-stalled pipeline project that would have connected the countries through the Pyrenees. The pipeline will allow Spain and Portugal, two leading importers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), to bring their excess supplies to France and […]

Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office marked by turmoil, triggering the second Tory leadership election in four months. Ms Truss said her successor would be elected by next week after a rebellion by Tory MPs forced her to quit. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he would not run in the […]

His “special military operation” has not gone according to plan. As a result of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, Russia has been losing territory it had occupied. Meanwhile, Russian regions bordering Ukraine have been coming under sustained shelling. What’s more, the Kremlin’s announcement last month of “partial mobilisation” sparked widespread alarm in Russian society. President Putin’s response? […]

Greece is preparing to make a 4 billion euro deal for the modernization of tanks and four frigates with Germany. Within the Greek government’s armament process initiated in the eastern Mediterranean after the crisis with Türkiye in 2020, Greece’s new address is Germany, after France and the U.S. During German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to […]