Category: Europe

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has welcomed the safe return of five British nationals who were being held as prisoners of war by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine. “This brings to an end many months of uncertainty and suffering, including the threat of the death penalty, for them and their families, at the hands of Russia,” […]

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilisation and vowed on Wednesday to use “all available means” to protect Russian territory, after Moscow-held regions of Ukraine suddenly announced annexation referendums. The votes, already denounced by Kyiv and the West as a “sham”, will dramatically up the stakes in the seven-month old conflict in Ukraine […]

ROME: Italy’s far-right has put anti-immigrant rhetoric at the heart of its campaign for the Sept. 25 election, despite the fact the eurozone’s third largest economy would freeze up without overseas labor. Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni and the League’s Matteo Salvini have pursued a nationalist “Italians First” agenda that looks set to propel […]

Two Russian-controlled regions in eastern Ukraine announced plans to hold referendums on joining Russia later this week and an ally of President Vladimir Putin said the votes would alter the geopolitical landscape in Moscow’s favour forever. The move, which seriously escalates Moscow’s standoff with the West, comes after Russia suffered a battlefield reversal in northeast […]

LEICESTER: Dozens were arrested in East Leicester after tensions between Hindu and Muslim communities hit a boiling point, police confirmed on Monday. The unrest mostly involved young men from both communities, leading to scuffles and assaults on Saturday night, the BBC reported. According to British media reports, an unplanned protest by Hindu men on Saturday […]

The U.S. aims to transform the Alexandroupoli port, which it has used for the shipment of weapons and personnel to the Balkans and Europe in recent years, into a military naval base, the Greek media has claimed. It was alleged that the goal is for the U.S. companies to win the tender for the Alexandroupolis […]

Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator said Monday a Russian missile struck near a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Energoatom said in a statement the missile landed 300 meters from the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant but did not damage its reactors. The strike did damage nearby buildings, Energoatom said. “Russia endangers the whole world,” Ukrainian President […]

Kyiv: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is receiving power from the national grid once again, the UN’s atomic agency (IAEA) said Saturday, after it was cut off from external power, raising the risk of an accident. The Russian-occupied plant had been cut from the national grid since September due to shelling. “The restored 750 kilovolt (kV) […]

European police have arrested five members of a gang suspected of smuggling migrants, mostly Kurds, aboard private planes from Turkey to Europe using fake diplomatic passports, Europol said on Friday. Authorities seized two aircraft, a luxury car and equipment used to make fake identity documents, in raids in Belgium and Italy on Tuesday, Europe’s policing […]

Berlin has taken control of the German operations of Russian oil firm Rosneft to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Rosneft’s German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 percent of oil refining capacity in the country, were placed under the trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency, the economy […]