Category: Europe

Ukraine’s top prosecutor says the country is moving towards opening an office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as Kyiv seeks to establish a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials responsible for the war. The ICC is currently probing possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Ukraine but it has […]

Thousands of people demonstrated across Greece on March 3 to demand justice for at least 57 people killed in the country’s worst rail disaster, with some protesters condemning the tragedy as “a crime”. Police clashed with some of the demonstrators at a handful of protests, as public anger grew over the role that government mismanagement […]

Russia’s defense minister visited Russian soldiers in Ukraine on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement on the messaging app Telegram that Sergei Shoigu “inspected the forward command post of one of the formations of the Eastern Military District in the South Donetsk direction.” Shoigu has been criticized for Russia’s poor performance in its war […]

A Belgian woman who murdered her five children has been euthanised at her own request, 16 years after the killings. Genevieve Lhermitte killed her son and four daughters, aged three to 14, in the town of Nivelles on 28 February 2007, while their father was away. She then tried to take her own life but […]

The Russian deputy foreign minister on Thursday said the US and NATO’s increasing involvement in the conflict in Ukraine could result in a direct military clash of nuclear powers “with disastrous consequences.” When Moscow speaks about such risks, its remarks are twisted for propaganda purposes, Sergey Ryabkov said in his address at the UN Conference […]

Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of preparing “nuclear provocations,” claiming radioactive material was delivered to the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk. “On Feb.16, containers with radioactive substances and English-language labeling were delivered from the territory of one of the European states to the port of Chornomorsk (Odesa region), bypassing customs inspection,” the Foreign Ministry […]

At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two trains in Greece, local authorities said. The crash took place outside the central city of Larissa late on Tuesday, when a passenger train heading from the capital, Athens, to Thessaloniki collided with a cargo train travelling from the northern city. […]

HELSINKI: Finland’s parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of joining NATO, ahead of ratifications from Hungary and Türkiye, increasing the likelihood it will enter the alliance before Nordic neighbour Sweden. Lawmakers approved a legislation affirming that Finland accepts the terms of the NATO treaty by 184 votes against seven. While joining NATO requires ratifications […]

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 […]