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Hundreds of thousands of German-made components are used in Russian drones attacking Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence service. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The HUR published a list of components without which Russian drones would not function, many of which originated in Germany. The War and Sanctions portal lists 137 components from Germany – 59 of them […]

ByLaura Fleischmann Published on 04/20/2026 – 20:11 GMT+2 Positive reports are rare in connection with police crime statistics. However, Germany’s figures for 2025 indicate a possible turnaround: Registered cases of criminality have fallen by 5.6% compared to 2024, with a total of 5.5 million cases recorded. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The number of suspected offenses recorded has […]

Published on 04/20/2026 – 21:32 GMT+2 Slovakia will hold a referendum in summer to decide whether to cancel lifelong payments for Prime Minister Robert Fico and other leaders after their terms in office expire, the country’s president said on Monday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING According to President Peter Pellegrini, the vote is scheduled to take place on […]

France and Poland planned increased defense cooperation in a meeting of their leaders held on Monday against a background of Russia’s expansionist threat and a waning US commitment to Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish premier Donald Tusk told a news conference in Gdansk, northern Poland, that the scope of the boosted […]

Efforts to rescue a humpback whale stranded for weeks on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast were complicated on Monday when the animal unexpectedly swam away but then appeared to have got stuck again. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The 13.5-meter whale and its struggle for survival have captured the hearts of the German public, with some of the press […]

Migrants in Spain began applying in person to legalize their status on Monday after the European country launched an amnesty that could affect hundreds of thousands of foreigners living and working in the country without authorization. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING A total of 42,790 people have already submitted online applications to begin the regularization process since it […]

Published on 04/20/2026 – 18:45 GMT+2•Updated 6:46 p.m The European Commission is currently evaluating whether to suspend €1.5 billion in EU funding for Serbia due to rule-of-law concerns and contentious judicial reforms introduced by Belgrade in January, Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told EU lawmakers on Monday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Kos said she was particularly concerned about […]

During last month’s multinational exercise Grand Quadriga 2026German troops in Seedorf weren’t just training with drones, they were also building them. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Instead of traditional live-fire drills, troops used reconnaissance drones, real-time data links and FPV systems to identify targets and engage them within seconds. FPV (first-person view) drones are unmanned aircraft piloted remotely […]

Dozens of sleuths have traced 45 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia during an open-source investigative blitz hosted by Europol, it said on Monday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The Europol effort saw 40 investigators from 18 countries gather in The Hague for two days last week to use publicly available information known as open-source intelligence or OSINT […]