Pope Leo: UN risks becoming ‘charade’
Reuters, Paris
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Daytime attacks kill five in Kyiv
AFP,  Kyiv
3 HOUR(s) • Europe
Poland aims to host 15,000 US soldiers
AFP, Warsaw
22 September 2026 • Europe
Putin’s party secures record score in Russia election
AFP, Moscow
22 September 2026 • Europe
Italy to ban veils in schools: Meloni
Reuters, Milan
21 September 2026 • Europe
August hottest month ever recorded globally
AFP, Paris
11 September 2026 • Europe
Ukraine talks with US envoys useful: Kremlin
Reuters, Moscow
7 September 2026 • Europe

UK growth recovery slows sharply

Britain’s economic recovery from pandemic fallout slowed sharply in the third quarter as global supply disruptions hurt businesses, official data showed Thursday.
11 November 2021

French agency to give €330m for dev projects

A development agency of France will provide €330 million for the implementation of development projects in Bangladesh.
11 November 2021

West accuses Belarus of orchestrating crisis

Poland yesterday said it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe’s borders.
10 November 2021

Blow as Google loses appeal

Google yesterday lost an appeal against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) fine imposed by the European Union for abusing its search engine dominance -- a big win for the bloc’s anti-trust tussle with the tech titan.
10 November 2021

‘We’ve already run out of time’

In the six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015, Madagascar has had only one decent rainy season, leaving more than a million people severely hungry in the southeast African island nation.
10 November 2021

Russia fires prison officials after torture videos leaked

Russia’s prison service yesterday said it had dismissed 18 officials after a whistleblower leaked videos of rape and torture inside its facilities.
10 November 2021

‘Well, that was a bedtime fail, wasn’t it?’

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was busy telling the nation about important revisions to Covid-19 restrictions when an unexpected voice cut in: “mummy”?
10 November 2021

Not even on official negotiation agenda

When countries first signed up to the COP negotiations process more than 30 years ago, climate change was viewed as a future problem.
9 November 2021

45m people on edge of famine

The UN’s food agency said yesterday the number of people on the edge of famine in 43 countries had risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world.
8 November 2021

French school children mask up again

Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered yesterday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases.
8 November 2021

Climate on track to devastate world’s poorest economies

The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released yesterday at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
8 November 2021

Migrants trying to cross border: Poland blames Belarus

Poland accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation on Monday as video clips showed hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border and some trying to breach the fence using spades and other implements.
8 November 2021

Decades of child abuse: France's bishops kneel in penance

Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes on Saturday (Nov 6), a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
7 November 2021

Slave room found at Pompeii

Pompeii archaeologists yesterday said they have unearthed the remains of a “slave room” in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.
6 November 2021

US offers up to $5m reward for tips to help capture Mexican drug kingpins

The US State Department announced Friday it would offer up to $5 million each for information that would help authorities capture and convict four Mexican drug cartel kingpins, including the brother of infamous trafficker “El Chapo.”
6 November 2021

Passengers run off after plane makes emergency landing in Spain

One of Spain’s busiest airports, Palma de Mallorca, was forced to close for nearly four hours after several passengers ran off when their plane made an emergency landing, according to airport authorities.
6 November 2021

‘Sacrifice’ to save Ethiopia

Ethiopia must be ready to make “sacrifices” to “salvage” the country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday, as fighting in the north intensifies between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to advance on the capital.
6 November 2021

Several wounded in knife attack on train in German

Several people were injured in a knife attack on an express train between the south German cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg on Saturday and a male suspect has been arrested, police said.
6 November 2021

Portugal’s president calls early election by January 2022

Portugal is in the midst of a political crisis over the proposed national budget for 2022, with early elections expected in January.
6 November 2021

Man who fell to death from Russian embassy in Berlin was a spy, claims German security services

German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
5 November 2021