Category: Europe

According to the Austrian Television (ORF) reports: In raids aginst drug trafficking, French police dicover 70kg of hashish in mayor’s house: Police in France have found 70kg of hashish in the house of mayor Jamilah Habsaoui. The head of the town of Avallon was arrested for investigation and further action.

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS: Preliminary hearings are opening Monday at the United Nations’ top court in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel, based on claims that Berlin is enabling acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Nicaragua argues that by […]

Attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant significantly increase accident risk, warns The International Atomic Energy Agency. U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident.” Officials at the plant said, […]

Populist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova. Mr Pellegrini, 48, defeated the pro-Western Ivan Korčok, a former diplomat, with 53% of the vote. A former prime minister, he is an ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, and shares the PM’s dovish attitude towards Russia. Mr Fico and his […]

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in downtown Budapest to protest against the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The protest on Saturday was led by Peter Magyar, 43, a former government insider turned critic who used to be married to Orban’s ex-justice minister Judit Varga. Magyar addressed a crowd […]

Türkiye has announced that it has suspended the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty), which was signed in 1990 to ensure mutual arms control between Russia and Europe following the Cold War. “It has been decided to suspend the implementation of the Treaty between the Republic of Türkiye and the other states […]

Nine Egyptian men who were aboard a migrant boat that sank off the coast of Greece last year, killing hundreds of people, are to face trial next month, accused of people smuggling, Greek judicial sources said on Friday. The circumstances of the sinking of the Adriana in June remain a source of dispute between the […]

Ukraine has carried out a drone attack against targets in southern Russia, and claims to have destroyed six Russian planes at an airbase in Rostov region. Security sources told BBC Ukrainian eight more aircraft were badly damaged, and 20 service personnel could have been killed or injured. The Morozovsk base houses Su-27 and Su-34 aircraft […]

Russia says ready for ‘honest’ peace agreement with Ukraiussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow is ready for an “honest” peace agreement with Ukraine that would take into account Moscow’s security interests. Speaking at a meeting with ambassadors of foreign countries in Moscow, Lavrov put forward another condition for the peace treaty […]

BBC reports: The Danish military says a missile failure on a navy ship has triggered the closure of airspace and shipping lanes near a major shipping strait off the Danish coast. The National Maritime Authority issued a warning for vessels to avoid part of the Great Belt strait due to a risk of “falling missile […]