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.
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The European Union and the United States have imposed new sanctions against Russia in a bid to force the Kremlin to accept an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
The US announcement marks the first time the second administration of Donald Trump has (...)
Russian forces attacked Kharkiv on Wednesday, striking and setting ablaze a kindergarten with children inside, according to authorities.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Kharkiv Regional State Administration Head Oleh Synyegubov said there have been (...)
Two Irish police officers have been injured and 23 people arrested in a second night of disorder outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin.
Stones and fireworks were thrown at police, with one injured officer being struck in the head (...)
The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv is in total blackout following what the authorities describe as a "massive" assault by Russian missiles and drones, with hundreds of thousands of people affected.
Across the wider Chernihiv region, four people are (...)
Intense Russian drone and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine have left at least six people dead, including two children, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Another 21 people were wounded, in another night of attacks that he said proved Moscow (...)
Romania has condemned Moscow's "irresponsible actions" after alleging that a Russian drone breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Bucharest to scramble fighter jets.
The Russian drone used in attacks on Ukraine (...)
US President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and imposed tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum.
Posting on his social media (...)
The UK's Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv on Friday for a surprise visit in support of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, his representatives confirmed.
Harry will visit the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II, spend time with 200 (...)
Hungary's Prime Minister expressed solidarity with Poland after Russian drones allegedly violated Polish airspace. But the gesture resulted backlash from Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who fired back angrily at Orbán on social media (...)
US President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday with a degree of bemusement toward Russia's drone incursion into Poland, a NATO member that Trump has previously vowed to defend amid heightened tensions with Moscow.
"What's with Russia violating Poland's (...)
The Duke of Sussex reunited with his father, King Charles III, for their first face-to-face meeting in 19 months on Wednesday, triggering speculation the royal family's long-running rift might soon come to an end. CNN understands that the King had a (...)
Poland's military said early Wednesday that it had shot down drones that violated its airspace during a Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine, the first time it has taken such a step in what is a major provocation for Europe and NATO forces.
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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 (...)
Polish authorities have closed Warsaw International Airport and Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.
The Polish military's Operational Command said in a statement that (...)
Ukraine has shown reporters fragments of the missile it says hit a key government building in Kyiv this weekend, identifying it as a Russian Iskander cruise missile.
Officials here now believe the building was struck deliberately in the early hours (...)
French Prime Minister François Bayrou and his minority government have collapsed after losing a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Monday.
Of the 573 lawmakers who sit in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, 364 voted (...)
The Czech Republic's counter-intelligence agency said on Monday that it has broken up a spy network being built in Europe by Belarus in a joint operation with the intelligence services of Hungary and Romania.
The Czech agency, also known as BIS, (...)
The murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in North Carolina last month has sparked ongoing concerns about crime in the US.
A video released on Friday by the Charlotte Area Transit System shows Ms Zarutska seated on a (...)
three people have been killed in a Russian air strike on a village in eastern Ukraine, according to a local official.
The victims were ordinary people collecting their pensions in the Donetsk settlement of Yarova, said President Volodymr Zelensky. (...)
European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.
The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin "soon", as well as signalling (...)
The text message came with a Santa emoji. "OK lads. No need for luck. Really this couldn't be any more straightforward. Just relax and this will all be over soon."
It was sent to a fisherman from Ukraine and an unemployed man from Teesside who were (...)
Russia unleashed its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began, firing more than 800 drones and missiles Sunday in a massive assault that struck the heart of Kyiv and damaged the Cabinet of Ministers building, authorities said.
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US President Donald Trump told a meeting of world leaders Thursday that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil and put economic pressure on China to try to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, a White House official told CNN, as the (...)
