Europe

Europe

Russia slams Trump’s missile defence shield plan

Russia yesterday condemned an executive order by US President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear balance and pave the wave for military confrontation in space.

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Russian drone barrage kills 4 in east Ukraine

A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed at least four people in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, the interior ministry said yesterday.

1d ago

New strain of bird flu confirmed in US

A new strain of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck farm in California, the first time the variant has been discovered in poultry in the United States, an international agency said.

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Nordics united on defence issues

Nordic leaders met on the weekend and reiterated they are united on defence issues, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said, as her country reels from US President Donald Trump’s attempts to take over Greenland.

4d ago

Italy resumes migrant transfers to Albanian centres

Italy yesterday resumed the transfer of migrants to its controversial centres in Albania, sending 49 asylum seekers to its maritime neighbour, the interior ministry said.

5d ago

German man sets world record living for 120 days underwater

Rudiger Koch, 59, emerged from his 30-square-meter (320-square-foot) home under the sea

1w ago

Video call: Putin vows to further develop ties with Xi

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday in which he proposed further developing their strategic partnership just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president.

1w ago

Canada vows ‘Trump tax’ on US in response to tariffs: minister

Americans will be hit by a “Trump tariffs tax” if the US president-elect increases customs duties on Canadian products, the Canadian foreign minister said Friday, pledging a hard-hitting response in any trade war.

1w ago

Red Sea Crisis: UK warship repels Houthi drone attack

A British warship, the HMS Diamond, repelled a drone attack on Saturday from Yemen’s Houthi group in the Red Sea, British officials said.

1y ago

Russia targets Ukraine with drones, missiles

Russia launched drone and missile attacks targeting civilian and critical infrastructure across wide areas of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Air Force said yesterday.

1y ago

Activists splash soup on glass-protected Mona Lisa

Two protesters yesterday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in Paris, demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food”, an AFP journalist saw.

1y ago

Activists splash soup on glass-protected Mona Lisa in Paris

Two protesters on Sunday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said

1y ago

Freedom Of Expression: UK intervenes in takeover of Telegraph newspaper

Britain ordered a new probe into an Abu Dhabi-backed plan to buy the influential Telegraph newspaper on Friday, stepping in a second time after Redbird IMI revised the deal to allay concerns of foreign interference in one of the country’s oldest dailies.

1y ago

Global turbulence the ‘new normal’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned yesterday that global disruptions and volatility are the “new normal”, with more geo-economic tensions on the horizon.

1y ago

Putin gives go-ahead to new nuclear icebreaker

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday gave the green light for a new nuclear-powered icebreaker, as Moscow seeks to step up commercial trade across its Arctic north.

1y ago

All 74 aboard Russian plane killed in crash

Russia yesterday accused Ukraine of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people.

1y ago

France logged record number of asylum requests in 2023

A record number of people sought asylum in France last year, a rise of more than eight percent on the previous year, the county’s refugee protection authority said yesterday.

1y ago

Russian strikes kill 7 across Ukraine

A wave of Russian missiles hit Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities yesterday, killing seven people and wounding dozens, setting ablaze and toppling apartment blocks and creating new panic among exhausted residents.

1y ago