New explosions in Belgorod, Russian governor reassures residents
Two explosions took place in the early hours on Monday in Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine, but there was no damage or security threat, the top official in the ...
EU energy ministers hold crisis talks after Russian gas cuts
Energy ministers from European Union countries hold emergency talks on Monday, as the bloc strives for a united response to Moscow’s demand that European buyers pay for Russian gas ...
Civilians evacuated from Ukraine’s Mariupol, Russia renews shelling (Update)
Humanitarian organisations worked to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Monday but hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steel works, the last ...
May Day marchers in France put pressure on re-elected Macron
By Dominique Vidalon and Noemie Olive
Thousands of people joined May Day protests across France on Sunday to demand social justice and salary increases and to push newly re-elected President ...
Civilians evacuated from Azovstal plant
A group of 40 civilians was evacuated on Sunday from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works in a convoy with vehicles bearing United Nations symbols, signalling a deal had been struck to ...
Greece lifts Covid curbs for travellers ahead of key summer season
Greece lifted COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday for foreign and domestic flights, its civil aviation authority said, ahead of the summer tourism season that officials hope will see revenues bouncing back ...
Pope says Mariupol ‘barbarously bombarded,’ implicitly criticising Russia
Pope Francis on Sunday described the war in Ukraine as a “macabre regression of humanity” that makes him “suffer and cry”, calling for humanitarian corridors to evacuate people trapped in ...
US Speaker Pelosi visits Kyiv, Russia says it hit foreign weapons (update 2)
Around 50 Ukrainian civilians reached the relative safety of a temporary camp in Russian-held territory on Sunday after being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in Mariupol, where the United Nations said ...
Moscow says Western sanctions, arms shipments to Ukraine impeding peace talks (Updated)
Russian forces pounded Ukraine‘s eastern Donbas region on Saturday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine‘s military said, while Moscow said Western sanctions on Russia and arms ...
Kyiv police find three bound men they say were executed by Russian occupiers
Ukrainian police said on Saturday they had found the bodies of three civilian men in the Bucha district north of Kyiv, bound and in some cases gagged, with several gunshot ...
Serbia shows off new Chinese missiles in display of military power
Serbia on Saturday showed off its new Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles and other military hardware purchased from both Russia and the West, as the country seeks to perform a delicate balancing ...
Germany takes Italy to UN court again over Nazi compensation claims
Germany has filed a case against Italy at the highest U.N. court because Rome continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from the German state ...
Ukraine warns talks with Russia may collapse as battles rage in east
Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over shaky talks to end a war now in its third month as Russia pounded areas in the east of the country and U.S. ...
Turkey, Germany summon each other’s envoys amid row over jailing of Turkish philanthropist
Turkey condemned Germany’s summoning of its ambassador on Friday and called in Berlin’s ambassador to Ankara in a tit-for-tat move amid a row over the jailing of a ...
EU border agency chief quits after rights abuse accusations
By Gabriela Baczynska
The director of the European Union’s border agency has quit his job, the agency said on Friday, after years of accusations that the body mistreated migrants ...
Ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians holed up with fighters in Mariupol steel works
Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up in a vast steel works with the last fighters defending the southern city of Mariupol.
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Guterres calls for escape route from Mariupol ‘apocalypse’
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said after talks in Kyiv on Thursday that intense discussions were still continuing to enable the evacuation of a steel plant where fighters and civilians ...
Amsterdam airport asks airlines to cut flights to avoid chaos
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has asked airlines to cancel flights over the weekend to avoid chaos due to overcrowding at Europe’s third busiest airport, it said on Thursday.
The ...
Russia fires on Kyiv, two explosions heard in central district, says mayor Klitschko (Updated)
Russia fired two missiles at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday evening and one of them struck the lower floors of a residential building, injuring at least three people, Ukrainian ...
Greece says Turkish overflights in the Aegean undermine NATO unity
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Turkey on Thursday to stop violating Greek airspace with fighter jets, a behaviour which he said undermines the unity of NATO at a ...
Greece to pay Gazprom without breaching sanctions against Russia
Greece plans to pay Russian gas supplier Gazprom next month in a way that will not breach European Union sanctions against Russia, the country’s energy minister said on Thursday.
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EU estimates up to 80% of population has had COVID
The European Commission said that between 60% and 80% of the EU population was estimated to have been infected with COVID-19, as the bloc enters a post-emergency phase in which mass reporting ...
Europe decries ‘blackmail’ as Russia halts gas to Poland, Bulgaria
Russia’s Gazprom cut Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas on Wednesday for refusing to pay in roubles, and threatened to do the same to others, cranking up retaliation ...
Greece to help Bulgaria after Russia cuts gas supply
Greece said on Wednesday it would offer help to Bulgaria after Russia cut off its gas supply, while a Greek official said Sofia had already booked some liquefied natural gas (...