Category: 3. Europe

Andriy Parubiy, a senior Ukrainian politician who served as the parliament’s speaker, has been shot dead in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday.

“Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs Ihor Klymenko and prosecutor…

Europe’s modern culture and history cannot be fully understood without its cafés, as philosopher George Steiner argued. “From Pessoa’s favourite café in Lisbon to the Odessa cafés frequented by Isaak Babel’s gangsters,” he…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Saturday that Paris remains open to talks with Iran to avoid the reimposition of far-reaching sanctions if Tehran is willing to take concrete steps immediately.

France, Germany and the United Kingdom notified…

“If in a few days, at the end of the two-week period he had indicated to [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump, Vladimir Putin continues to oppose a high-level meeting with the president of Ukraine, then we will need to force by hardening sanctions — sanctions from the United States, but also…

In 2011, Germany ended compulsory conscription. But the largest economy in Europe now wants to move toward what the German Ministry of Defense is calling a “new military service.” This would emulate a system used in Sweden, where a questionnaire…

Russia launched a “massive” overnight attack on Ukraine’s southern and central regions, authorities said, as Kyiv struck Russian oil refineries.

One woman was killed in Zaporizhzhia and 28 people were injured – including three children – according to local officials.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr…