Category: Europe

The French electricity grid operator has warned of a “high risk” of network strain due to ongoing nuclear power plant outages, which could see businesses and households forced to curb usage to avoid outright power cuts. In a winter outlook update, RTE said it expects France’s network of nuclear plants will be operating at just […]

Russia is seeking a “short truce” – a proposal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vehemently dismissed as it would allow Moscow’s forces to regain strength after suffering a series of battlefield defeats. Officials in Russia have repeatedly said they were ready to engage in peace talks without any conditions, but it is not clear if they […]

Police in Bulgaria have detained five people in connection with the bombing that killed six people in Turkey’s largest city last weekend, the Bulgarian prosecution service said on Nov. 19. The detained individuals were charged with helping one of the people who carried out the Nov. 13 bombing on a busy Istanbul street, Siika Mileva, […]

In its intelligence update Saturday, Britain’s defense ministry said that on Wednesday, Russia held its “largest ever debt issuance in a single day.” The issuance, the ministry said, “is a key mechanism to sustain defense spending, which has increased significantly since the invasion of Ukraine.” The issuance raised $13.6 billion, according to the update posted […]

BANGKOK: French President Emmanuel Macron urged an end to “confrontation” Friday as he relaunched his strategy for the Asia-Pacific region after a bitter row over a cancelled submarine contract with Australia. In a speech on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Macron cast France as a balancing power in a region long […]

Thousands of Portugal’s doctors, nurses, teachers and civil servants have staged a walk-out to demand wage increases amid rampant inflation, challenging the majority Socialist government a week before a final vote on the 2023 budget. Across the country many schools and courts were shut on Friday, hospital appointments and surgeries have been cancelled, and rubbish […]

A German court on Wednesday threw out the results of Berlin’s state election 14 months ago and ordered a re-run due to “systematic faults” in how the vote was carried out. In a ruling with national implications, Berlin’s constitutional court found that the German capital, which is one of the country’s 16 federal states, had […]

More strikes have been reported across Ukraine, days after one of Russia’s most intense bombardments of the war. A gas production plant in the east and a missile factory in Dnipro were among the latest targets, officials say. Parts of Ukraine have seen their first snowfall of the season, but many people cannot heat their […]

The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued 141 migrants pushed back by Greece off the Aegean province of Muğla. Initiating an operation upon notification that there was a group of irregular migrants in a fiber boat, a fishing boat, a life raft and a rubber boat off the coast of Bodrum district, the teams rescued a […]

BURNLEY: Skipping lunch each day and watching television in blankets to keep warm is not how Ann and Keith Hartley envisaged their retirement in Burnley, the northern English town hit hardest by Britain’s cost of living crisis. Now in their 70s, the Hartleys are even rationing cups of tea in the face of soaring energy […]