NYE Fire: Switzerland Orders Pre-Trial Detention for ‘Flight Risk’ Bar Owner
Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year´s Eve celebration.

Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year´s Eve celebration.

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England were without power Friday morning.

More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam’s international airport amid snow and ice pummeling parts of Europe.

The vote for the 90-member assembly is seen as a test for the liberal government that is facing a challenge from populist right-wing parties.

Ukraine allies meeting Tuesday for key talks that could help determine the country´s security after a potential ceasefire with Russia.

Swiss police said they’ve identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a New Year’s celebration in a crowded bar.

Two people were killed in Ukrainian drone strikes in Russian border regions, local officials said Sunday.

LONDON –Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.

One person was killed and two others wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a car in the Russian border region of Belgorod, local officials said Sunday.

Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead, authorities said Saturday.

Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said late Friday, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation.

Finnish authorities have arrested two members of a cargo ship’s crew in connection with damage to an undersea telecommunications cable.

Zelenskyy had dismissed his previous chief of staff after anti-corruption officials began investigating alleged graft in the energy sector.

On New Year’s Day, Bulgaria will achieve its decades-old goal of joining the euro currency union and deepening ties with the more prosperous countries of Western Europe.

Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday

An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence that they were part of a “broader terrorist cell,” police said on Tuesday.

The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, killing one person and wounding 27 others, a day before talks between Ukraine and the U.S., local authorities said.

Italian authorities arrested nine people linked to three charitable organizations on suspicion of raising millions of euros in funds for the Hamas, anti-terrorism prosecutors said in a statement Saturday.

King Charles said the Christmas story of wise men traveling to find their savior shows we can find strength in the “companionship and kindness of others.”

Turkey detained over a hundred suspected members of an ISIS group allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

Pope Leo XIV will deliver his first Christmas blessing from St Peter’s Basilica on Thursday, after a year overshadowed by conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia’s war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized, free economic zone monitored by international forces.

An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away.

Group claimed major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France´s national postal service just days before Christmas.

A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum – but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in October’s stunning heist.

Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night.

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel.

A suspected cyberattack knocked France´s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday.

Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.

Three men will stand trial next year after a silver steward employed at the official residence of the French president was arrested this week for the theft of items of silverware and table service worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecutor’s office said

A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were pressing on “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”

The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.

Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said.

Moscow was responsible for “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a Danish water utility company that caused pipes to burst.

Police arrested two people who called for “intifada” during a protest following decision to toughen enforcement of hate speech laws.

Database shows spike in arson and explosives from one in 2023 to 26 in 2024. Six have been documented so far in 2025.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin’s demands in peace talks.

A New Zealand court sentenced the country’s former deputy police commissioner to nine months of home detention on Wednesday, after he admitted to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.
