A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced Lina Ishaq to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.
Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” nighttime missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said Tuesday, as the almost three-year war rumbled on against a backdrop of renewed diplomatic efforts to end it.
Iohannis announced resignation following pressure from populist opposition groups after top court annulled a presidential election.
Terror charges over killing of three in riviera city of Nice in 2020, one of multiple attacks that year linked to Islamic extremism.
The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast.
Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials said Sunday, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed a new Ukrainian offensive in Russia’s Kursk region and said that North Korean troops were fighting alongside Russian forces there.
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia was officially severed Saturday morning after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s transmission lines and prepared to join the rest of Europe on Sunday.
Court sentenced a Syrian national to three years in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old.
The man is insistent: Our ship is in difficulty, so keep your distance, he instructs another vessel over the radio.
The Munich summit is a regular forum for global international security discussions which has taken on new significance amid the Ukraine war.
A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled Australia, with a dozen arrests for vandalizing or setting homes, schools, and synagogues on fire.
The remains of the 24-story apartment building loom over North Kensington in west London, a constant reminder of the lives that were lost.
Thousands of residents and visitors have already left Santorini, frightened by the hundreds of earthquakes.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, bringing a new support package for Ukraine.
Greenland´s parliament bans political parties from receiving contributions “from foreign or anonymous contributors”.
Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation and gut the state structures.
“If two (nuclear switchyards) are hit, we are out of supply for a minimum of 30 to 36 hours” said a Ukrainian energy industry expert.
Long-range drones struck one of Russia´s biggest oil refineries for the second time in three days, a senior Kyiv official said Monday.
A former British soldier convicted of spying for Iran after an audacious three-day escape from a London prison was sentenced Monday.
Russia didn’t say what caused the blast, but the state news cited law enforcement source as saying a bomb was planted in the building.
Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous” and asked for more discussions between Kyiv and Washington to develop a plan for a ceasefire.
Three people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a retirement home near Paris on Saturday, according to the town mayor.
A Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities initially suspected may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been released.
At least five people died overnight as Russian drone and missile strikes pounded Ukraine’s towns and cities, local officials said Saturday.
Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness, officials announced.
Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable stopped off Norway.
“And then the main question is, what will be the next target of Russia? Ukraine, maybe. Baltic countries, maybe.”
Europe´s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.
The convicted rapist who horrified France by drugging his wife so other men could rape her is now being investigated in other cases.
Drone blasted hole in apartment building during a nighttime attack, killing at least four people and injuring nine others.
Britain´s Princes Beatrice gave birth to her second child last week, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.
The UK is backing the construction of a third runway at London´s Heathrow Airport, Treasury chief Rachel Reeves said Wednesday.
An Italian navy ship arrived Tuesday in Albania with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters for processing.
Serbia´s populist Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned amid anti-corruption protests over the deadly collapse of a concrete canopy.
The 12th district town hall was built in 1876 with a 36-meter (118-foot) high bell tower on top of its main entrance.
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp.
Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to new processing centers in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil left onboard a tanker that ran aground last year in southern Russia, officials said Saturday. The mishap resulted in a devastating oil spill that damaged miles (kilometers) of coastline along the Black Sea.
