Russia has revived its demand that NATO withdraw troops and bases from much of Eastern Europe and pull back to its 1997 borders as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine, according to a document circulated in this week’s peace talks and obtained by The New York Times. The document, an informal diplomatic “non-paper” ...
An analysis of leaked Russian government records has put Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine above 450,000, with the figure likely to rise past 550,000 as delayed records are formally registered. The findings, reported by the Financial Times, come from about 11.5 million death records held by Russian authorities as of August. The records were ...
Millions of people across Spain walked off the job on Wednesday in the country’s first general strike in 14 years, bringing public transport, ports and factories to a near standstill in a protest over soaring housing costs. The 24-hour stoppage, called by tenants’ associations and later backed by the country’s largest workers’ unions, was the ...
German Cost-of-Living Protests Turn Violent in Frankfurt: French-Inspired Gen Z Bloc Tactics Cross Rhine Frankfurt’s Halloween night erupted into the most violent cost-of-living demonstration Germany has seen in years. About 1,700 protesters marched through the Zeil shopping district under a banner reading “Gen Z regelt” — a direct import of France’s university blockade movement. At ...
A white van driven at high speed struck a crowd gathered for Christopher Street Day celebrations in Berlin’s Tiergarten park on July 25, 2026, killing one person and injuring up to 29 others in what German officials have classified as an Islamist terror attack. The incident occurred near the Brandenburg Gate during one of Europe’s ...
The UK’s first supersonic combat aircraft project in four decades is moving from concept to reality. BAE Systems’ Lancashire facilities are now manufacturing two-thirds of the Combat Air Flying Demonstrator‘s structural weight, using digital techniques that mark a radical departure from traditional aerospace production. This demonstrator, set for first flight by 2027, will test technologies ...
Several acts of vandalism have severely disrupted train traffic this Friday, July 26th. The timing is significant: it coincides with a major holiday departure day and the opening date of the Paris Olympic Games. In the night of July 25th to 26th, around 4 a.m., fires targeted several key points of the high-speed rail network: ...
There is a major change in Britain’s leadership. In the UK general election of 2024, general elections, the Labour Party appears to have secured a decisive victory with a strong majority. According to the election results, Labour has won 393 Westminster seats so far, gaining 194 seats and crossing the magical figure of 326 seats ...
