Video shows Russian armed drones were used in Syria in recent years
The Orion drone is Russia’s answer to US armed drones, such as the Reaper. View of Mount Hermon covered with snow as it seen from...
Iran ending snap inspections is ‘dangerous,’ France, Germany, UK say
“We urge Iran to stop and reverse all measures that reduce transparency and to ensure full and timely cooperation with the IAEA.” PEOPLE GATHER around...
Russia’s role in Syria and Israel’s policy
Russia played a key role in releasing an Israeli woman held in Syria. The full details of the exchange are not known, but the central role...
Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor in Rome
On Saturday, Pope Francis made a visit to Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, at her home in Rome. Vatican News reported the pope reading...
Bird flu: Russia detects first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans
Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from poultry to humans. Photo: AFP Officials said seven workers at...
Holocaust survivor and her rabbi son punched on London bus
Witnesses said the woman told the alleged victims, “I hate you Jews. It’s not your place. You took our money” before striking them. A general...
Britain’s Karim Khan elected International Criminal Court prosecutor
Last week the court said it has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, which could lead to an inquiry strongly opposed by...
UK police arrest eight in probe into U.S. celebrities SIM-swapping attacks
British police said on Tuesday they had arrested eight people as part of an investigation into the SIM-swapping hijacking of U.S. celebrities’ phones. Britain’s National...
Italy’s parties enthuse over Draghi, 5-Star postpones online vote
Italy’s political parties on the left and right enthused at the prospect of backing a Mario Draghi government after meeting the prime minister-designate on Tuesday...
Nazi secretary at Stutthof death camp charged for role in 10,000 murders
A woman who served as a secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust has been charged for being complicit in the murders...
Britain trial to test combining Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in two-shot regimen
Britain on Thursday launched a trial to assess the immune responses generated if doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc are...
Global vaccine trust rising, but France, Japan, others sceptical
People’s willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is rising around the world and more than half of those questioned said they would take the shot...
Italy’s president calls on Draghi to save country from crisis
Italian President Sergio Mattarella looks set to ask former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to form a government of national unity to tackle the...
Russian police detain more than 900 people as court rules on Navalny: protest monitor
Russian police detained more than 900 people at protests in favor of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was sent to jail by a court on...
Britain calls for immediate release of Kremlin critic Navalny
Britain called on Russia to immediately release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced on Tuesday to 3-1/2 years in jail after a court ruled...
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 92% effective in fighting COVID-19
Scientists gave Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine the green light on Tuesday saying it was almost 92% effective in fighting COVID-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial...
UK’s record-breaking fundraiser, ‘hero’ Captain Tom Moore, dies aged 100
Britain’s Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who lifted a nation’s spirits by raising millions of pounds for health service workers battling the...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny jailed, declares Putin ‘the Underwear Poisoner’
A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, ignoring the West in a ruling the opposition politician blamed on President Vladimir Putin’s personal...
Merkel vows to offer all Germans COVID-19 vaccine by end-summer
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her government against criticism that Germany’s vaccine roll-out was too slow, saying that there had been good reason for Europe’s modest...
Sanction Putin’s inner circle to trigger Kremlin infighting, says Navalny ally
A close ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday urged the West to hit President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle with personal sanctions, predicting...
Israel, Kosovo establish diplomatic ties over Zoom
Israel and Kosovo officially established diplomatic relations in a ceremony held via Zoom video conference on Monday. It likely was the first ceremony of its...
Novavax says COVID-19 vaccine 89% effective in UK trial, less in South Africa, shares jump
Novavax Inc said on Thursday its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3% effective in preventing COVID-19 in a trial conducted in the United Kingdom, and was nearly...
Stop endless referendum talk, UK PM Johnson tells Scotland
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Scottish nationalists on Thursday to stop talking “endlessly” about a new independence referendum, saying most people wanted to see Britain...
EU warns it could block vaccine exports, wields legal threat at drugmakers
Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union warned drug companies such as AstraZeneca that it would use all...
Activists say Polish women seeking abortion panic as restrictions take effect
Polish women with scheduled abortions are calling advice services in panic, activists said, as Poland’s government put into effect a ruling banning terminations of pregnancies...
Police detain brother of jailed Kremlin critic and search properties, say Navalny allies
Police in Moscow detained Oleg Navalny, the brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and searched the homes of the opposition politician’s associates and other...
EU demands AstraZeneca plan to break vaccine deadlock
The European Union failed to make a breakthrough in crisis talks with AstraZeneca on Wednesday and demanded the drugmaker spell out how it would supply...
New Pentagon chief praises Germany for hosting U.S. troops, reversing Trump’s tack
New U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin praised Germany for hosting U.S. troops in a call with his German counterpart on Wednesday, fueling speculation that President...
Renzi or bust? Italian parties’ options narrow in government crisis
Italy’s ruling parties are reluctantly coming to terms with the prospect of having to forge a new deal with the centrist Italia Viva party which...
Biden raises election meddling with Putin in first phone call
US President Joe Biden has warned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about election meddling in their first call, the White House says. US President Joe Biden...
Jailed Belarusian Blogger Losik Ends Hunger Strike After Six Weeks
Ihar Losik, a popular Belarusian blogger, says he has ended a hunger strike he began almost six weeks ago* to protest charges that he helped...
Spain reports record 94,000 COVID-19 cases over weekend, incidence hits new high
Spain reported a record 93,822 new coronavirus infections over the weekend, while the incidence of the virus as measured over the past 14 days jumped...
‘I feel divine’ says Madrid care home resident after second COVID shot
Residents of a Madrid nursing home got their second shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday and some began planning their first trip outside in...
Italy PM to resign on Tuesday after cabinet meeting – cabinet office
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hand in his resignation to the head of state on Tuesday after convening the cabinet to inform ministers of...
UK health minister says new COVID variant makes it harder to lift lockdown
Britain’s health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday a new more infectious coronavirus variant means the government needs to be more cautious in lifting lockdown...
Italy sends warning letter to Pfizer over COVID vaccine delays
The Italian government on Monday sent a letter of formal notice to Pfizer calling on the drug company to respect its contractual commitments over its...
Italy PM Conte to resign on Tuesday, seek fresh mandate
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hand in his resignation to the head of state on Tuesday after a morning cabinet meeting to inform his...
Risk of ‘vaccine-busting’ coronavirus variants prompts tougher UK quarantine – Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he was looking at toughening border quarantine rules because of the risk of “vaccine-busting” new coronavirus variants....
Britain records 22,195 new COVID cases, has given 6.6 million first vaccine doses
Britain said on Monday it had recorded 22,195 new COVID-19 cases, down from 30,004 the previous day, with government statistics showing that 6,573,570 people had...
Anger and grief as United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll nears 100,000
As the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the worst...
Nearly 160 Anti-Lukashenka Protesters Detained In Minsk Over Weekend
Almost 160 demonstrators were detained over the weekend in continued protests against strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka's claiming of a landslide victory and a sixth presidential term...
Ukraine Protests To BBC Over Map Showing ‘Russian Cities’ In Crimea
Ukraine has protested against the BBC's inclusion of Moscow-annexed Crimean cities on a list of Russian cities where demonstrators rallied to support jailed Kremlin critic...
Discrimination worsens in Spain, far-right and fake news largely to blame
Racial and ethnic discrimination in Spain has worsened in the past few years, especially in housing and education, the Equality Ministry said on Monday, fuelled...
Turkey and Greece resume talks on maritime disputes after five years
Turkey and Greece resumed talks aimed at addressing long-standing maritime disputes on Monday, ending a five-year hiatus after months of tension in the eastern Mediterranean....
Biden extends Europe, Brazil travel restrictions, adds South Africa
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an order on Monday barring most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the United States,...
France probably needs new lockdown as early as February: top adviser
France probably needs to move into a third lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of new variants of...
Dutch police detain 240 nationwide as anti-lockdown protests turn violent
Rioters looted stores, set fires and clashed with police in several Dutch cities on Sunday, resulting in more than 240 arrests, police and Dutch media...
UK to launch global climate adaptation effort with partner countries
Britain will team up with Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, Saint Lucia and the Netherlands to help communities around the world that are threatened by climate change...
Biden speaks with France’s Macron, seeks to strengthen ties
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with French President Emmanuel Macron, expressing his desire to strengthen bilateral ties, the White House said, as Biden...
Portugal President Rebelo de Sousa wins new term in socially distanced ballot
Portugal’s centre-right President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa won a second term on Sunday, exit polls showed, in an election marked by strict health and safety...