Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire "very shortly" after Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.
The Israeli premier also added that (...)
Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete.
They were among a number of countries who had called for Israel to be excluded over the war in Gaza, as well as (...)
Germany's Bundestag voted for a bill on Friday that allows the country to move towards conscription, as tensions with Russia spur calls for Europe to gain more independence from the US security umbrella.
The controversial bill passed with a (...)
The Eurovision Song Contest faces a battle for its future at a "watershed" meeting in Geneva on Thursday.
Organisers and participating countries will debate whether Israel should be allowed to continue in the competition, amid protests over the way (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is starting a two-day visit to India, where he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend an annual summit held by both countries.
Delhi and Moscow are expected to sign a number of deals during the visit, (...)
The UN atomic watchdog demanded that Iran fully cooperate with the agency on Thursday and provide "precise information" about its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, as well as grant its inspectors access to the country's nuclear sites.
The (...)
Italy's top appeals court has ruled that a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany should be extradited to Berlin.
There, former Ukrainian military officer Serhiy Kuznetsov will (...)
Loud screams, masked soldiers and bursts of gunfire echo through a Berlin U-Bahn station just after midnight.
The air smells of gunpowder, and a thick haze hangs over the platform. Through the smoke, a yellow metro train can barely be seen, stopped (...)
Turkish police are investigating after a vacationing family of four died of suspected poisoning in Istanbul.
The Böcek family, who were visiting from Hamburg, Germany, fell ill on November 12 after a day touring one of Istanbul's main tourist spots (...)
Belgium has struck a deal to buy Latvian-made drone interceptors, the defence ministry said, after a series of incursions near Belgian airports, military bases, and a nuclear plant.
The Belgian defence ministry said the defensive kamikaze drones (...)
Illegal migration is "tearing the country apart", the UK's home secretary has said, as she prepares to unveil major plans to overhaul asylum policy.
New measures set to be announced by Shabana Mahmood on Monday will include people granted asylum (...)
Belgium held its ground during a summit of European Union leaders, preventing a breakthrough on an audacious plan to issue a €140 billion loan to Ukraine using the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank.
The bulk of the assets is held at (...)
The 27 leaders of the European Union are gearing up for a high-voltage summit in Brussels with a packed agenda devoted to Ukraine, climate targets and China, all of which could lead to fraught negotiations and delicate compromises in the room.
The (...)
BERLIN — Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al-Ibrahim met with German Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization Karsten Wildberger on the sidelines of the Berlin Global Dialogue (BGD) 2025.
The ministers (...)
RIYADH — French President Emmanuel Macron affirmed on Friday that France and Saudi Arabia are charting an irreversible path to peace in the Middle East. In a statement on his X account, Macron welcomed the UN General Assembly's adoption of the "New (...)
Poland activated Article 4 of the NATO Treaty on Wednesday to allow for consultations with allies hours after its armed forces downed multiple Russian drones that had entered its airspace.
"The shooting down of drones threatening our security is a (...)
Beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron has appointed outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of trying to find consensus in a divided parliament and pass the 2026 budget. Earlier on Monday, (...)
The first light over Lisbon revealed the shattered remains of the Gloria funicular, its distinctive yellow carriages in ruins after it derailed and crashed on Wednesday killing at least 15 people and injuring 23.
Since 1885, the cable railway has (...)
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds of people and leveled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already grappling with food shortages and cuts (...)
The world's leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) states that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as (...)
France, Germany and the United Kingdom have begun the process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
The triggering of the so-called snapback sanctions, a move that the United States welcomed on Thursday, comes as diplomatic (...)
Israel has faced global condemnation for back-to-back strikes on the biggest hospital in southern Gaza this week, which killed at least 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews and five journalists.
The attack on the hospital (...)
Authorities in Germany announced murder charges against a man on Tuesday, accused of killing two people and injuring 44 others in a car-ramming in Munich in February that prosecutors say was motivated by a desire to avenge the suffering of (...)
Representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed to agree with their Iranian counterpart on Tuesday on how to avoid the measures days ahead of a deadline, a diplomat said.
The (...)
BERLIN — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul at the German capital Berlin on Wednesday.
During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations between the (...)
