Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent

A ruling by the EU’s top court has dealt a further blow to Italy’s attempts to create a fast-track system in Albania for processing asylum applications offshore.
The European Court of…
Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent
A ruling by the EU’s top court has dealt a further blow to Italy’s attempts to create a fast-track system in Albania for processing asylum applications offshore.
The European Court of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced hopes for further peace talks with Ukraine – but stressed his troops were “advancing on the entire front line”, despite the threat of looming US sanctions if a ceasefire was not agreed upon.
“All…
Award-winning Israeli author David Grossman called the country’s campaign in Gaza a “genocide” on Friday for the first time, noting that he uses the term with “immense pain and a broken heart,” in conversation with the Italian…
One worker is dead and five remain missing after a collapse at a copper mine in central Chile, triggered by a 4.2-magnitude earthquake on Thursday evening, according to state-run mining giant Codelco.
The incident…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents’ arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp. Their shoulder blades and ribs stick…
George Anton is hungry, but he’s become used to the sensation—the urgent, aching feeling in his stomach, the heaviness of his limbs. He hardly has time to acknowledge the discomfort, given all the work he has to do. He is the operations…
President Trump on Friday said he’s ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the “appropriate regions,” in response to threatening comments made by Russia’s former president.
“Based on the highly provocative statements of the…