December 31, 2025, 07:12December 31, 2025, 07:23 After the spectacular million-dollar coup in a Gelsenkirchen savings bank branch, the police are looking for the fugitive tank busters. They used a special drill to drill into the vault and then broke open almost all of the 3,250 customer safe deposit boxes. The perpetrators broke into the […]
Continue ReadingEPA People’s New Year’s Eve plans thrown into disarray after Eurostar cancellations. Eurostar passengers are braced for more possible disruption, after a power outage in the Channel Tunnel caused travel chaos for thousands of people on Tuesday. As people scrambled to get to New Year’s Eve celebrations, some travellers said they spent more than six […]
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Russian losses in the war in Ukraine have been growing at a faster rate than at any point so far since the invasion began in February 2022, new analysis […]
Continue ReadingTalks between Washington and Kyiv on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine have reached a crucial stage, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to discuss peace terms. Zelenskyy reported that Trump had offered Ukraine 15 years of security guarantees from the U.S. The Ukraine leader has repeatedly accused Moscow […]
Continue ReadingEurope: A New History Author: Roderick Beaton ISBN-13: 978-0241624500 Publisher: Allen Lane Guideline Price: £30 “Neither the West nor the East will rescue Europe,” wrote Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923; “Russia wants to conquer it, America wants to buy it.” Damned as a “cosmopolitan bastard” by Adolf Hitler, the Japanese-born Bohemian count would become the inspiration […]
Continue ReadingPaul KirbyEurope digital editor Joe Raedle/Getty Images Unlike Trump, Zelensky says he does not trust Russia’s Putin on peace talks Russia, the US and Ukraine agree that a deal on ending almost four years of full-scale war is edging closer but, in the words of President Donald Trump, “one or two very thorny, very tough […]
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into Monday during the holiday lull, police […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 30/12/2025 – 18:02 GMT+1 A cable car accident in Italy’s Piedmont region on Tuesday left at least six people injured, with helicopters deployed to rescue about 100 others, according to local authorities. The incident happened at around 11:25 am when two cabins collided with the cable car’s upper and lower stations near the […]
Continue ReadingDecember 30, 2025, 6:00 p.mDecember 30, 2025, 6:00 p.m Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.Image: keystone Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described Israel’s recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as “unacceptable”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government wants to “push the Horn of Africa into instability,” said Erdogan at a […]
Continue ReadingThieves used a large drill to break into a safe at a high street bank branch in western Germany and steal an estimated €30m (£26m; $35m) in cash and valuables, police have said. A police spokesman likened the break-in to the Hollywood heist film Ocean’s Eleven, telling AFP news agency it was “very professionally executed”. […]
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