Category: Europe

Bordeaux town hall has been set on fire as French protests continued over plans to raise the pension age. More than a million people took to the streets across France on Thursday, with 119,000 in Paris, according to figures from the interior ministry. Police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital and 80 people […]

KYIV: A top Ukrainian commander on Thursday threatened an impending counterattack against Russian forces in the frontline town of Bakhmut as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson, still partially controlled by Russia. Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said Russian troops were “exhausted” near Bakhmut, the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle since the […]

LONDON: A judge in the UK on Wednesday launched an independent probe into allegations of dozens summary killings by British troops in Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in London, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, the chair of the inquiry, issued a call for anyone with evidence to come forward. It is “critical” that those who have violated the […]

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday that the country would hold a general election in May, as his government faces widespread anger over a train disaster that killed 57 people in February. “I can tell you with certainty that the elections will take place in May,” he said in an interview with TV channel […]

It’s unlikely to dominate the streaming charts, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become the subject of a unique diss track. And the man behind the song is no up-and-coming artist or future festival headliner. It’s a member of European Parliament from Germany, Daniel Freund – a fierce critic of Mr Orban. The lyrics […]

Athens, Greece – Anastasia Adamidi’s fellow students describe her as a brilliant young woman. The 24-year-old dentistry postgraduate student from Cyprus was heading to the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki late on February 28. She was to start her second semester on March 6. But her family held her funeral on that day instead, and the […]

LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and could still be employing rapists and murderers, a scathing independent review of Britain’s largest force concluded Tuesday. The report, written by government official Louise Casey, was commissioned after the kidnap, rape and murder two years ago of a London woman, Sarah Everard, by serving […]

European Union ministers on Monday will look to sign off on a 2-billion-euro plan to raid their stockpiles and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine. Kyiv has complained that its forces are having to ration their firepower as Russia’s year-long invasion has turned into a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has told the […]

The French government has narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence, which was triggered when it forced through an increase in the pension age to 64. The vote, tabled by centrist MPs, had 278 MPs vote in favour, falling short of the 287 votes needed. If it had been successful, Emmanuel Macron would have had to […]

Thousands of protesters filled downtown Lisbon on March 18 to demand higher wages and pensions, as well as government intervention to cap soaring food prices they say are strangling already tight budgets. Portugal is one of Western Europe’s poorest countries and official data shows that more than 50 percent of Portuguese workers earned less than […]