Category: 3. Europe

The incident was first reported by The Times, which said it was unclear whether the defense minister was deliberately targeted, but indicated the jet’s flight path was visible on tracking websites. According to the Financial Times, after its signal was jammed, Healey’s plane spent three…

The center-right Democratic Rally party scored the most votes in Sunday’s elections, which saw the ultranationalist National Popular Front double its share of seats in the 56-member parliament.

“Fidias,” as Panayiotou styles himself, has gained some 2.6 million subscribers on his…

Evghenia Gutul, the elected Head (Baskan) of the Gagauz Autonomous Region in southern Moldova, has released a book written during her imprisonment titled “The Gutul Case. Anatomy of Political Persecution.”

The publication contains 30 letters written from prison,…

While the document didn’t explicitly name China, it implicitly refered to Beijing by stressing that “some of the European Union’s (EU) main trading partners are breaking with this multilateral framework by imposing new trade barriers or contributing to systemic and structural industrial…

The European Parliament’s delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China (D-CN) will take part in the 43rd EU-China Inter-Parliamentary Meeting (IPM) on 28 May.

Parliament’s delegation will visit Beijing and Wuhan from 27 to 29 May. The 43rd EU-China IPM will…

Rinkevics on Monday green-lit the coalition. Kulbergs is expected to unveil his cabinet appointments on Tuesday, Latvian outlet Diena reported. Under the terms of the coalition deal, caretake prime minister Siliņa, who belongs to the New Unity party, aims to become defense minister.

The…

The encyclical is the pope’s first since his election last year. Emphasizing its significance, the pontiff took the unusual step of presenting it in person, accompanied by Canadian tech billionaire Christopher Olah, a co-founder of AI giant Anthropic.

In his letter to Catholic bishops…

Multiple cities in the west of France are set to break May temperature records by several degrees, with Nantes expecting 35C heat on Monday — which would break a 2017 May temperature record by nearly three degrees.  

The UK’s weather agency warned of “a notable heatwave” with highs…