Category: Europe

ROME: About 30 migrants were missing and presumed drowned after the overcrowded boat they were on capsized during a rescue attempt by a cargo ship off Libya, Italy’s coastguard said on Sunday. Seventeen migrants were saved and a search was underway for the missing after the early-morning attempted rescue in Libya’s search-and-rescue zone, the coastguard […]

The Ukrainian military was preparing Sunday for an upcoming counteroffensive, with a top commander saying his forces’ ongoing defence of Bakhmut in the face of fierce and sustained Russian attacks was necessary to “buy time” for that push. The remarks came as British intelligence said the frontline had shifted in the fight for Bakhmut — […]

ROME: More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the coastguard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their boat hit rocks near the coast. Growing numbers of migrant arrivals have piled pressure on Italy’s conservative government, which took office last […]

Moscow on Friday accused foreign countries of fomenting mass protests in Georgia, likening them to an attempted coup designed to sow tension on Russia’s borders. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that several days of demonstrations in the Georgian capital Tbilisi reminded him of a Ukrainian uprising that ousted a Kremlin-friendly government in 2014. Hundreds […]

The UK will give France almost £500m over three years to help stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. The cash was announced at a summit in Paris between UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron, who said France would also contribute. The money will go towards an extra 500 officers and […]

Moscow on Thursday said a massive strike on Ukraine, carried out in the morning, is a “retribution for the attack” in Russia’s Bryansk region. “In response to terrorist acts, organized by the Kyiv regime on March 2 in Bryansk region, the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike of retribution,” Defense […]

Seven people have been killed and several more injured in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the German city of Hamburg. Police say the gunman acted alone in Thursday’s attack, and is thought to be dead. They add that as yet, “there is no reliable information on the motive”. The gunman is […]

At least nine people were killed in the latest wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine during the early hours of Thursday morning. It was the heaviest aerial bombardment in weeks, with at least 81 Russian missiles and eight suicide drones striking residential areas and key infrastructure across the country, according to Ukrainian officials. Nearly half […]

The new UK bill against illegal migrants violates the international treaty for refugees and therefore is a violation of international law, said an official of the UN’s refugee agency. “The proposed law does breach the international convention, and hence it is in breach of international law and of international humanitarian cooperation indeed,” Matthew Saltmarsh, a […]

France on Thursday warned of the “unacceptable risk for nuclear safety and security” from power cuts at a major Ukrainian power plant, after a Russian missile strike left it running on diesel generators. “France has taken note and is concerned over information of a new disconnection (from the grid) at the Zaporizhzhia plant,” foreign ministry […]