Political leaders in Lithuania were briefly directed to air raid shelters on Thursday after the alarm was raised over an airspace violation from Belarus, Lithuanian media reported.
Media reports stated that Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and (...)
Tens of thousands of passengers have been hit by a French air traffic control strike that has cancelled flights in France on Thursday and Friday and had a knock-on effect elsewhere in Europe.
Budget airline Ryanair said it had been forced to cancel (...)
Despite a report saying there are "indications" that Israel was in breach of its human rights obligations over its ongoing war in Gaza, European leaders could only agree at their council summit on Thursday to "continue discussions" on a follow-up to (...)
For the protesters waving Palestinian flags outside EU buildings in Brussels, it was the moment that everything might change.
An EU report presented to foreign ministers had found there were indications Israel had breached human rights obligations (...)
Pro-Palestinian activists in the UK have broken into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed two military planes with red paint in a major security breach.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the action as "disgraceful", saying that it was an "act of (...)
Israel is set to be one of the first countries targeted by a reform of the mechanism to suspend short-stay visa-free travel into the EU and Schengen countries agreed on Tuesday by the European Parliament and the Council according to European (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia, alongside France and a broad coalition of international partners, announced the suspension of the UN conference on Palestine, scheduled to be held at the UN headquarters in New York on June 17-20.
In a joint statement issued (...)
There was disorder in Northern Ireland for the fourth night in a row but at a lower level than seen earlier this week.
In Portadown, County Armagh, on Thursday a crowd pulled bricks and masonry from a derelict building which they threw at (...)
Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town, according to (...)
When 26-year-old Umar Sofi received his acceptance letter from Columbia University's School of Journalism, he thought the hardest part of his journey was over.
After trying for three years, Mr Sofi had finally been admitted to his dream university (...)
Spain has canceled a deal to purchase anti-tank missile systems that were to be manufactured in Madrid by a subsidiary of an Israeli company in a bid to move away from Israeli military technology, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
The decision (...)
An Irish man has died and a child has been injured in a shooting incident at a shopping center in County Carlow on Sunday.
Emergency services are currently at the scene at the Fairgreen Shopping Centre, with an army bomb disposal team also in (...)
Israel has said it rejects a decision by the European Union to review the bloc's wide-ranging trade and cooperation pact with the country over its intensified offensive in Gaza.
The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated on Tuesday that the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Ministry of Defense hosted the eighth meeting of the Chiefs of Staff of the Dragon Group member states in Riyadh on Sunday.
The Saudi Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fayyadh Al-Ruwaili inaugurated the meeting, which discussed topics (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognize Palestine as a state in June this year.
Macron made the comments during an interview with a French television station while on a two-day trip to Egypt.
"Our goal is, (...)
The EU is "preparing for further countermeasures" to protect its interest, Ursula von der Leyen said after Donald Trump announced a 20% levies on European goods, urging the US to "move from confrontation to negotiation".
"We are already finalizing a (...)
Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Australia's Anthony Albanese are among the world leaders who have come out in criticism of US President Donald Trump, after he announced far-reaching import taxes on products from across the globe.
Meloni called a 20% (...)
Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), its government said Wednesday, as the country's Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed Israeli Prime Minister and ICC fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest.
Netanyahu's visit to (...)
King Charles III briefly returned to hospital on Thursday after experiencing temporary side effects from his ongoing cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said.
The 76-year-old monarch has since returned to Clarence House, where he continues to work (...)
US President Donald Trump added Ireland to the list of countries he says are taking advantage of the United States as he welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin to the White House.
Martin, who was visiting the US as part of annual St Patrick's (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron is spearheading an accelerating effort to reshape European security. He is taking the initiative just as the European Commission agrees on an €800bn plan to bolster European defense sovereignty in response to the (...)
European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to finally bring into force the Entry/Exit System (EES), the bloc's automated registry for short-stay travellers that has been repeatedly delayed over technical problems and lack of preparedness.
The (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers reiterated its full support for the resolutions adopted by the Extraordinary Arab Summit for Palestine, held in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday. Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman chaired the Cabinet (...)
The UK death rate reached a record low last year, according to an exclusive analysis carried out for BBC News.
Mortality experts looked at death certificates registered in 2024 and found that deaths per head of the population had returned to (...)
