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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday Ukraine was finding it harder and slower to secure sanctions on Russia and weapon supplies to help fend off Moscow’s forces. Speaking at a conference in the Ukrainian capital, he said Ukraine’s three-month-old counteroffensive would make faster gains in the south and east if …

Ten European countries have called on Israel to halt the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, the consulates general of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Office of the European Union Representative to the …

The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, on Saturday, said that the ‘Dry Road’ initiative – a project slated to link Iraq with Europe via Turkey– would act as a crucial backbone for a thriving, sustainable economy, unveiling plans for a state-of-the-art industrial city near al-Faw port. In his …

Hundreds of protesters in the capitals of Italy and Spain have waged rallies to demand higher wages as well as a halt to the shipment of weapons to Ukraine. While calling for peace in the Ukraine conflict, the Italian protesters on Friday further demanded from the ruling right-wing government in …

Poland is in advanced talks to buy Swedish early warning planes and hopes negotiations will be finalized shortly, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Monday. Poland has ramped up military spending since Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February last year, with the government pledging to double the size …

Seven young activists protesting against climate change climbed into the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Sunday and poured diluted charcoal into the water to turn it black. The protesters from the “Ultima Generazione” (“Last Generation”) group held up banners saying “We won’t pay for fossil (fuels),” and shouted, “Our country …

A tourist plane crashed in a mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday, reportedly leaving several people dead. Regional police confirmed that a plane had crashed near Ponts-De-Martel in the Swiss canton of Neuchatel but did not immediately provide more details. According to media reports, several people died in the …

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 …

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 …

A British think tank has warned that nearly 1.6 million British households are yet to encounter a 2,300 pound ($2,903) payment surge following the mortgage rate increase amid the UK’s persisting housing crisis. According to the Resolution Foundation’s report, which focuses on living standards, only about half of the 7.5 …

In one of Switzerland’s largest military exercises in more than three decades, soldiers rehearsed repelling a fictional enemy, tossed grenades and fired live munitions as they showcased the self-defense capabilities that define their “armed neutrality.” The drills, involving 4,000 troops and spread across four cantons over nine days, took place …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday slammed restrictions on grain exports from his war-torn country that were imposed by neighboring EU nations, saying the measures are a boon to Russia. “All restrictions on our exports are completely unacceptable right now. They only reinforce the abilities of the aggressor,” Zelenskyy said …

China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Europe this week, Beijing said Monday, as China pushes to act as a mediator in the Ukraine conflict. Qin will hold meetings with counterparts from Germany, France and Norway from Monday to Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, without giving further details …

Italy remains dissatisfied with the apologies offered by Paris after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday. “Clearer words are needed,” Tajani, who is a member of the conservative Forza Italia party, told Italian state-owned television RAI in …

New orders at German factories have registered the biggest plummet since the covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, according to the latest data which has raised fears that Europe’s biggest economy might slip into recession. Demand for new orders declined by 10.7% on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis in March 2023 …

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training. The measure will be approved at next week’s cabinet meeting and will create 45,000 bilingual vocational training places, 824 new training centers, and more than 1,500 classrooms for applied technology …

Russia has promised a harsh response to Poland’s “illegal seizure” of an embassy school in the capital Warsaw. Polish media reported that the country’s police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school in Warsaw on Saturday morning. Polish authorities had burst onto the embassy school’s grounds with the aim …

Ten Norwegian diplomats in Moscow were ordered to leave Russia Wednesday, in what Oslo said was “an act of revenge” for its move this month to expel 15 Russian diplomatic staff for alleged spying. Norway’s ambassador to Moscow was informed that ” 10 of our diplomats at the embassy in …

The European Commission will ban Ukrainian grain and oilseeds exports to Romania until June 5, Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea said on Wednesday. Romania has stopped short of enforcing a ban, whereas Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia took unilateral steps to protect local markets from a flow of Ukrainian farm …

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules Tuesday to curb the power of digital companies. They’re among those on a list of the 19 biggest online platforms and search engines that the European Union’s executive arm said …