France Jails Migrant Smugglers For Channel Boat Deaths
French court sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqis to jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers.

French court sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqis to jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers.

Police removed street blockades in the capital Belgrade that were part of a protest over a spate of arrests of anti-government protesters.

At least 500 protesters marched through Venice on Saturday, condemning Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s wedding to journalist Lauren Sanchez, a lavish affair that has drawn backlash in the historic Italian city.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war. Russia

British authorities seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama, authorities said Saturday, calling it one of the U.K.’s biggest drug busts in years.

In the coming days, smoking will be banned in all French parks and sports venues, at beaches and bus stops, in a perimeter around all schools, and anywhere children could gather in public.

Two people died and at least 17 more were injured as Russian drones overnight struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa, Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday.

British PM gave way to political pressure, watering down planned welfare reforms to avoid defeat by his own party´s lawmakers.

Zelenskyy formally approved plans to set up a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials.

Two people were killed and 17 injured during torrential storms in France that toppled trees and caused parliament’s roof to spring a leak.

Czech authorities have detained five teenagers and charged two over an attempt to set fire to a synagogue, officials said Wednesday.

Has an advanced camera, artificial intelligence, and contained new, Iranian-made, anti-jamming technology, it was claimed.

Russian drones, missiles and artillery killed at least 24 civilians and injured more than 200 others in Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.

Rutte insisted Ukraine remains vital topic at an alliance summit this week despite Zelenskyy’s absence from a leaders’ meeting

Belarus has freed dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski following a rare visit by U.S. President Donald Trump´s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.

A 55-year-old Frenchman suspected of commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia has been arrested and charged in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, partially resurfaced Saturday as salvage recovery crews finalized the complex operation to bring it ashore for further investigation.

Russian drones slammed into two Ukrainian cities, killing at least one person in nighttime attacks, authorities said Friday.

Iran’s foreign minister arrived Friday for talks with top European diplomats in Geneva after war erupted between Israel and Iran.

Chinese student convicted of drugging and raping 10 women in the UK and China and suspected of having attacked more was jailed for life.

The Lithuanian Association of Hunters believes there are only five to 10 bears in the Baltic nation and refused to shoot the young female.

Emergency workers pulled more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile.

An overnight Russian missile demolished a nine-story Kyiv apartment building in the deadliest attack on the capital this year.

German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life for torturing detainees at military hospitals under former ruler Bashar al-Assad.

One person was killed and 13 others wounded Sunday in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Tatarstan region, local authorities said.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland, the strategic Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Donald Trump Saturday that Moscow was ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22, once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies.

King Charles III and other members of the royal family in uniform wore black armbands and held a moment of silence during his annual birthday parade as the monarch commemorated those who died in this week’s Air India plane crash.

A sharp rise in global oil prices following Israeli strikes on Iran will benefit Russia and bolster its military capabilities in the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Finnish authorities have accused senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel of damaging undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia.

Former student who killed nine at a school in Austria planned attack in detail but appears to have shot victims at random.

Russian forces have pummeled Ukraine with drones and other weapons, killing three people and injuring scores of others.

Russian forces launched fresh drone assault overnight Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 60 more, Ukrainian officials said.

Austria fell silent on Wednesday in memory of 10 people killed in a school shooting in Graz, which ended with the gunman taking his own life.

Russia sent waves of drones and missiles in an attack on two Ukrainian cities early Tuesday that killed three people.

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, diplomatic and security sources told AFP on Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed Sunday for reconciliation and dialogue – a message in line with his pledges to make the Catholic Church a symbol of peace.

Russian officials said Sunday that Moscow is still awaiting official confirmation from Kyiv that a planned exchange of 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action will take place, reiterating allegations that Ukraine had postponed the swap.

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

Lawyers have cited fake cases generated by artificial intelligence in court proceedings in England, a judge has said – warning that attorneys could be prosecuted if they don’t check the accuracy of their research.
