Category: Europe

BBC reported: Two trains have collided in northern Greece with the loss of at least 32 lives and dozens of people injured, emergency services say. Rescuers have been working through the night to try to free passengers who were on one of the trains when it crashed near the city of Larissa. The train said […]

Wizz Air says it will suspend all flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from 14 March due to concerns about the safety of its airspace. A Russian missile was fired over Moldovan airspace earlier this month. Moldova’s civil aviation authority called the airline’s decision sudden and regrettable. Moldova is one of Europe’s poorest economies and […]

Greek pundits Alexis Heraclides, Andreas Stergiou, Theodoros Tsikas and Konstantinos Tsitselikis suggested in their comment for daily Ekathimerini that if Türkiye and Greece try a different approach than usual it might help resolve Greek-Turkish disputes which have seemed impossible to come up with a solution. The cultivation of fear, the consolidation of false information and […]

Protesters in Germany and France on Saturday demanded peace for Ukraine, a day after activists in both countries marked one year since the Russia-Ukraine conflict started. Police said about 10,000 people braved the falling snow in central Berlin to call for negotiations with Moscow rather than weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Under the slogan “Rise up […]

Russia has halted oil supplies to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline, the chief executive of Polish refiner PKN Orlen says, adding that the company would tap alternative sources to plug the gap. The supply halt via the pipeline – exempted from EU sanctions imposed on Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine – came a […]

A new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland is not yet done but is “inching towards a conclusion”, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said. The taoiseach said a protocol agreement could come within days but negotiators still have a gap to close. He urged politicians from the UK, Brussels and Northern Ireland to “go the […]

Italian authorities have detained and fined a rescue ship operated by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF), shortly after parliament passed into law a government decree establishing a code of conduct for migrant charity ships. The rescue ship Geo Barents was placed in administrative detention for 20 days and issued a 10,000 euros […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday his nation will be victorious against Russia as the war with the neighboring country entered its second year with no apparent end in sight. “We endured. We were not defeated. And we will do everything to gain victory this year,” Zelenskyy said in a statement released on social media. […]

LONDON: Three contenders are in the running to succeed long-serving Scottish National Party (SNP) chief Nicola Sturgeon. Here are profiles of the three candidates who will go to a ballot of the SNP’s 104,000 members, after nominations close on Friday. The result will be announced on March 27. Humza Yousaf Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, 37, […]

Hungary plans to send a delegation to Sweden and Finland to resolve “political disputes” that have raised doubts among some Hungarian lawmakers of whether to support the two Nordic nations’ applications to join NATO, a senior Hungarian lawmaker has said. Mate Kocsis, the head of the nationalist Fidesz party’s parliamentary caucus, said during a news […]