Europe

Sixteen percent of French people say they did not have enough food to eat at the end of last year, according to a new study. A survey by the Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions (Crédoc) found the ratio has increased significantly in recent months, from …

Western countries ‘are still adhering to the escalation scenario’ that risks widening the Ukraine war in Europe, says deputy foreign minister. Western countries will be running “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, a Russian official says. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko was responding to a …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Saturday in Japan for diplomatic talks with leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies participating in the Group of Seven (G7) after the U.S. pledged to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jet fighters. “Japan. G7. Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine. Security …

Three Russian academics who have worked on hypersonic missile technology face “very serious accusations”, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, in a treason investigation that has spread alarm through Russia’s scientific community. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was aware of an open letter from Siberian scientists in defence of the …

Ukraine denied on Wednesday that a Russian hypersonic missile had destroyed a U.S.-made Patriot missile defence system during an air strike on Kyiv. Russia’s defence ministry made the assertion on Tuesday after an overnight air attack on the Ukrainian capital. Two U.S. officials later said a Patriot system had probably …

At least eight people died and thousands were evacuated from their homes as torrential rain battered Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region, triggering widespread floods, officials said on Wednesday. Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said some areas had received half their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours, causing rivers to burst …

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his case on Wednesday against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals. The court upheld a sentence of three years with two years suspended; he will wear an electronic bracelet for the remaining year instead of going …

Russian legislators have voted to formally pull out of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which aims at limiting key categories of conventional military equipment in the continent. The treaty was signed in 1990 by the US-led NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, comprising the Soviet Union and …

UK’s unemployment rate has increased over the first three months of the year as skyrocketing inflation puts further pressure on the labor market, according to official data released on Tuesday. According to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate across the UK climbed from 3.8 percent …

Russia says it has destroyed a US-built Patriot air defense system in an overnight barrage of missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. The Russian military said on Tuesday it destroyed the US air defense system using a hypersonic Kinzhal missile. The missile is capable of carrying conventional or …

Britain has announced plans to provide Ukraine’s Western-backed military with “hundreds” of long-range attack drones, coinciding with a high profile visit to London by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ask for more weapons. “Today the Prime Minister will confirm the further UK provision of hundreds of air defense missiles and …

Russia said Saturday that its forces were still pushing inside the frontline town of Bakhmut and had wrested control of an area in the eastern Ukrainian city. “In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments liberated a block in the northwestern part of the city of Artemovsk,” the defense ministry said, referring …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will land in Berlin on Sunday, German government sources told Reuters on Saturday. Zelenskiy last visited Germany for the Munich Security ouncil in February last year just before the war broke out. It will be the ninth country he has visited since Russia’s invasion – after …

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Ukrainian aircraft had struck two industrial sites in the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles supplied by Britain. Reuters could not verify the battlefield reports. Britain on Thursday became the first country to say it had …

Germany has called on the other member states of the European Union (EU) to refrain from targeting China through imposing sanctions against Russia. Since Russia launched its special operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the EU has imposed 10 rounds of sanctions, banning Russian oil. Brussels has also banned Russian …

Britain becomes the first country to start supplying Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles, giving Kiev the ability to attack inside Russia while the West’s hunt for any weapons delivery to Moscow continues with South Africa being the latest accusee. Ukraine has been asking for long-range missiles for months, but massive …

An explosion and a shooting at two separate locations have left multiple casualties in Germany. Both incidents, one in the western town of Ratingen near Dusseldorf and the other in town of Sindelfingen near Stuttgart, happened on Thursday. In Ratingen, the explosion, which took place at a residential building, left …

The steep rise in energy prices across Europe following the bloc’s anti-Russia sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine may have killed more Europeans in winter than the COVID-19 pandemic, The Economist has reported. Electricity and gas prices rose by 69 percent and 145 percent, respectively, last winter, The Economist …

The talks are taking place as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mends ties with regional powers after more than a decade of isolation. The foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkey, and Iran have met in Moscow for high-level talks on rebuilding ties between Ankara and Damascus after years of animosity during …

A highway collision between a long-distance bus and a truck injured dozens of people in eastern Germany, German news agency dpa reported. The crash happened Tuesday on the A 12 highway in the state of Brandenburg between the towns of Storkow and Fredersdorf. Police said 35 people were hurt, including …