Category: Europe

Sweden takes over the EU’s rotating presidency from January 1 vowing to maintain unity on Ukraine and uphold free trade in the face of calls for a tougher response to US green subsidies. But the main questions for Stockholm as it takes the reigns of the 27-nation bloc at this tumultuous time could be how […]

Belgium-based Ryanair cabin crews have started a three-day strike, resulting in dozens of the low-cost Irish carrier’s flights being grounded and affecting thousands of passengers. The strike came on Friday as the cost of living crisis continued, increasing labour strife across Europe that has disrupted the festive period. Ryanair employees in Belgium have already gone […]

Belarus has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador, saying it had shot down a Ukrainian air defence missile in Belarusian territory. It happened during one of Russia’s heaviest aerial onslaughts against Ukraine so far. Footage from Belarusian state television appeared to show missile debris in a field. A Ukrainian military spokesman said the incident was “the result […]

KIEV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 29 most regions were without power in freezing temperatures following a barrage of Russian missile attacks all over the country. “As of this evening, there are power outages in most regions of Ukraine,” he said. “It is especially difficult in Kyiv region and the capital, Lviv region, […]

Kyiv, Dec 29: Air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine on Thursday morning as Russia unleashed around 120 missiles in a savage barrage which targeted the capital Kyiv and several other major cities, media reports said. “A massive air raid. More than 100 missiles in several waves,” presidential office adviser Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Facebook, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that the country would ban any oil exports to countries that agreed to an oil price cap imposed by Western nations that took effect earlier this month. According to a presidential decree published on a government portal and the Kremlin website, “The supply of Russian oil and oil products […]

NEW DELHI, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he sought India’s help with implementing a “peace formula” in a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The conversation comes at a time when India is seeking to strengthen trade relations with Moscow while Western nations introduce new measures to limit Russia’s […]

MOSCOW — Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired Sunday. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two and […]

A Ukrainian drone is said to have struck an airbase deep inside Russia, while the Kremlin claims to have shot it down and taken it off-course, Three Russian servicemen were killed as a result of the strike. This is the second time the Engels airbase, hundreds of kilometres away from the border with Ukraine, has […]

PARIS, Dec – The suspect detained over the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris told investigators of his “hatred of foreigners”, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in the 10th district […]