Miss Netherlands’ first transgender winner becomes target of hate speech
Rikkie Valerie Kolle, the first transgender woman to be crowed Miss Netherlands, once saw her success in the pageant as a symbol of her nation’s openness. Then she was ...
Christodoulides says Cyprob negotiations ‘biggest priority’ at ambassador ceremony
President Nikos Christodoulides has said his biggest priority is to make every possible effort to break the current Cyprus problem deadlock and restart a “structured and results-oriented dialogue”.
He said ...
Everton’s Alli opens up about pill addiction, sexual abuse as child
Everton midfielder Dele Alli has revealed that he was sexually abused as a child and dealt drugs before he was adopted by an “amazing” family who helped him to turn ...
New passenger handling facility at Akrotiri air base
The British Sovereign Base Areas Administration (SBA) has announced its intention to construct a new passenger handling facility at its RAF Akrotiri air base.
The facility will cost £66 million (€77.2 million) ...
Russia says Ukraine’s assertions on blowing up nuclear station are lies
Russia’s nuclear chief on Thursday pushed back against Ukrainian assertions that Moscow had plotted to blow up a nuclear power station it controls, saying no evidence supported the claim ...
Hollywood actors poised to strike and join writers on picket lines
Negotiators for Hollywood’s actors union unanimously recommended a strike after talks with studios broke down, setting the stage for performers to join writers on picket lines as early as ...
Russian general says top military brass betrayed soldiers in Ukraine
A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling the military leadership about the dire situation at the front in Ukraine, where he said Russian soldiers ...
Fragile UK economy set to dodge recession for now
Britain’s economy shrank by less than expected in May despite a bank holiday to mark King Charles’ coronation and strikes, suggesting a widely forecast recession caused by high inflation ...
Climate protests cause cancellations, delays at two German airports
Climate protests at two German airports led to travel disruptions early on Thursday at the height of the busy summer holiday season, with Hamburg airport saying dozens of flights had ...
One killed as Russia attacks Kyiv for third successive night
At least one person was killed on Thursday in a third successive night of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the city’s mayor said.
Air defences shot down ...
North Korea says longest test launch was latest Hwasong-18 ICBM
North Korea tested its latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, its state media reported, saying the weapon is the core of its nuclear strike force and a warning ...
Russian spy chief says he spoke to CIA boss about ‘what to do with Ukraine’
Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said that he and CIA counterpart William Burns had discussed “what to do with Ukraine” in a phone call late last month, Russia’s ...
BBC presenter at centre of sex photo scandal named as lead anchor Edwards
One of Britain’s leading television news anchors, Huw Edwards, was identified by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a young person thousands of ...
Erdogan to put Sweden’s Nato ratification to Turkish parliament in autumn
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he will move forward the ratification of Sweden’s Nato bid to the country’s parliament when it reopens in the ...
Russian defence ministry says Wagner is completing handover of its weapons
The Wagner mercenary group is completing its handover of weapons to Russia’s regular armed forces, the Russian Defence ministry said on Wednesday, more than two weeks after the group ...
Erdogan says he is “more hopeful than ever” for US F-16 sale
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he is “more hopeful than ever” for the sale of F-16 fighter jets from the United States after he held talks with ...
Bank of England says Britain is coping with higher interest rates
Britain’s economy is so far proving resilient to a surge in interest rates over the past year and a half, but it will take time for the full impact ...
Nato allies offer security assurances for Ukraine on path to membership (Updated)
The United States and global allies unveiled new security assurances for Ukraine at a NATO summit on Wednesday, designed to bolster the country’s defences against Russia over the long ...
Russia to put destroyed Nato equipment on show near Western embassies
Russia plans to display NATO equipment it has destroyed in Ukraine outside the embassies of Western countries that supplied it, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday.
“The proposal to ...
EU Parliament passes nature law after political backlash
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to pass a fiercely contested law to restore degraded natural ecosystems, salvaging the environmental measures that centre-right lawmakers had campaigned to kill off.
European ...
A wasted opportunity? Italy’s EU funds bonanza hits the rocks
Italy’s hopes of transforming its economy with billions of euros of European Union pandemic recovery funds are unravelling fast, businesses on the ground say, with inefficiencies at all levels ...
Trans advocates in Russia brace for proposed gender surgery ban
Elle Solomina is 36, but she says her life truly began in 2021, when she changed her gender to female in her official Russian identification documents.
The IT worker is now watching ...
For Putin, war is his political technology, taken Russia back to the Brezhnev era
Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the Soviet Union, Oleg Orlov, one of the Russia’s most ...
Russian billionaire Abramovich challenges EU sanctions against him
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Wednesday will challenge European Union sanctions imposed on him after the Ukraine war, arguing that the restrictions were imposed simply because he is a well-known ...