Image source, ReutersImage caption, For years a shadowy mercenary group, Wagner began recruiting in Russian prisons recently for the war in UkraineBy Alexandra FouchéBBC News TikTok is hosting dozens of videos that glorify violence by Russia's Wagner Group of mercenaries…
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu not to take any measures towards further escalation after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to launch a ground offensive in Northern Syria. Baerbock said she had called on Turkey…
No lives were lost on Spanish soil, said Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who rejected accusations against the country’s security forces that insist they failed to prevent dozens of migrant deaths including one on Spanish soil during the Melilla tragedy.…
Hundreds of teachers went on indefinite mass strikes across the country in breach of government regulations on Thursday (1 December) after the Interior Ministry fired eight teachers for participation in civil disobedience actions demanding better working conditions. So far, 497…
The trial of a Vietnamese man who was allegedly abducted in 2017 was reopened by the Slovak National Criminal Agency, which launched an investigation into corruption connected to the abduction after a second suspect went on trial in Germany. Vietnamese…
French MEP Pascal Durand left the Parliament’s Renew Europe group over strong personal disagreements, he said on Wednesday, adding that he stands opposed to the Swedish Liberals’ presence in the group despite their agreement with the far-right at a national…
The black-tie dinner marks a return of diplomatic pomp and an effort by the United States and France to display the strength of their alliance after a trans-Atlantic dust-up. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The Netherlands is confident that it can reach national gas storage targets set by the European Commission to ensure the security of supply next winter. The Netherlands is one of the key gas-storing countries in the EU, meaning it will…
After eight people lost their lives in a landslide that destroyed a village on the island of Ischia, the government is announcing major measures to remedy hydrogeological instability. The government will soon finance 139 interventions against hydrogeological instability, at a…
Portugal has frozen about €18 million in assets of people on the EU’s Russian sanctions list, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Wednesday. “We in Portugal have assets seized, frozen, assets of people who are on the…