Russia expels four Austrian diplomats in tit-for-tat move
Russia said on Thursday it was expelling four Austrian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after Vienna expelled four Russian diplomats in a case which appeared to be related to spying.
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Israeli foreign minister promises Zelenskiy more aid, rebuilding help
Israel will expand existing aid to Ukraine and help rebuild the country, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Thursday during the first official Israeli visit to Kyiv since Russia’s ...
Soros says Russian defeat in Ukraine would trigger dissolution of ‘Russian empire’
Billionaire financier George Soros said on Thursday that if Russia was defeated in the Ukraine war it would result in the dissolution of what he called the ‘Russian empire,’ something ...
Serbia arrests three after nationalist calls for riots over Kosovo plan
Hundreds of hardline Serb nationalists and pro-Russia activists rallied in downtown Belgrade, threatening riots if Serbia accepts a Western-backed plan aimed at mending ties with Kosovo, its former mainly Albanian ...
Greece and Bulgaria to consider reviving oil pipeline project
Greece and Bulgaria will consider reviving a pipeline project to transport crude oil from the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean Sea to Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of ...
Teenager pulled from rubble in Turkey; anger smoulders
A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region, but such rescues have become increasingly rare, ...
Ukraine pounded by missiles (Update)
Russia rained missiles across Ukraine on Thursday and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would ...
Germany’s oldest companies face fresh break-up calls
Activist investors are renewing their years-long efforts to break up some of Germany’s most venerable companies, seeing streamlining as a promising route to reviving share prices as Europe’s ...
Greek government and British Museum looking to strike deal over Parthenon marbles
The UK is working on a new arrangement with Greece through which the Parthenon Sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, British Museum chair George Osborne said ...
Sticky inflation prompts EBRD to trim 2023 growth outlook for its region
High gas prices and persistent inflation eroding real wages will limit growth in emerging Europe, central Asia and north Africa, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in ...
Turkey earthquake could result in loss of up to 1 per cent of country’s GDP in 2023
The potential economic effects of the earthquake in Turkey could result in a loss of up to 1 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product this year, the European ...
One killed, three wounded in Texas mall shooting
One person was killed and three were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at an El Paso, Texas, shopping mall, police said.
A police spokesman, Robert Gomez, told reporters one ...
Barclays shares tumble 9 per cent as profit disappoints
Barclays (BARC.L) reported a 14 per cent fall in full-year pretax profit on Wednesday as earnings were poleaxed by surging costs, a collapse in deal fees and multi-million dollar fines ...
Actress Raquel Welch, sex symbol of 1960s, dead at age 82
Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealized version of sensuality ...
Bird flu spreads to new countries, threatens non-stop “war” on poultry
Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and ...
Judge rejects Trump’s late offer to provide DNA in rape accuser Carroll’s lawsuit
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s offer to provide a DNA sample as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer ...
Italy’s Berlusconi acquitted in ‘Bunga Bunga’ bribe case
An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of bribing witnesses in an underage prostitution case that has dogged the former prime minister for more than a decade.
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Russia declares battlefield gains as NATO ramps up support for Ukraine
Russia said it had broken through two fortified defence lines in Ukraine’s east, while Western allies pledged to ramp up military aid to better arm Kyiv as it prepares ...
The deep freeze over UK assets is thawing
Britain’s stocks and bonds are drawing strong buying interest, not quite a vote of confidence in the economy but a reassuring sign for policymakers that a deep investment freeze ...
Russian bombers intercepted by NORAD near Alaska
Several Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets have been intercepted by North American air defence forces as they flew over international airspace near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defence Command (...
Two women pulled from rubble in Turkey, some aid reaches Syria
Two women were pulled from the rubble in Turkey’s southern city of Kahramanmaras on Wednesday, even as hopes to find survivors from last week’s devastating earthquake dwindled and ...
Captain of Thai ‘cave boys’ football team dies in Britain
One of 12 boys dramatically rescued after two weeks trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 has died in Britain where he was attending a football academy, his former teacher ...
Lufthansa IT failure strands thousands of passengers worldwide
A group-wide IT system failure at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday, which the German airline blamed on underground engineering works at a railway station in Frankfurt ...
Scotland’s Sturgeon quits, says she is too divisive to win independence
Nicola Sturgeon resigned as Scottish first minister on Wednesday, saying her dominance over her party and the country was no longer the asset it once was in the fight for ...