Since August 2025 Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of strikes against targets deep inside Russia. While the country’s Western allies have been reluctant to allow the use of long-range missiles for that purpose, they have not objected to Ukraine doing it with its domestically-produced weapons – principally drones – with the Americans even helping […]
Continue ReadingRussia’s oil giant Lukoil said on Thursday that it will sell its foreign assets to The Carlyle Group, a US investment firm. This comes as Russian drone strikes killed three people and wounded another person overnight in southern Ukraine, the governor of Zaporizhzhia said. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
Continue ReadingA US Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit deployed to Italy for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will not conduct patrols and will serve only in an advisory role, Washington’s ambassador said on Wednesday. The deployment has angered Italians because of ICE’s tough US immigration crackdown,
Continue ReadingDanish veterans on Wednesday criticised the US embassy in Copenhagen for removing national flags put up in front of the mission to honour Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The embassy later backtracked, and a US State Department spokesperson told AFP that “until an outlet reached out, we were unaware of why the flags were placed […]
Continue ReadingAn area of the Sicilian town of Niscemi was declared off limits after a four-kilometre long stretch of the hillside collapsed on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of some 1,500 people. Though there were no deaths or injuries, experts say the gulf could extend — and topple more houses — when it rains again. Italian Prime […]
Continue ReadingMore than 1,000 people were evacuated in Sicily after a five-kilometre section of cliff crumbled during a storm, leaving houses perched perilously on the edge, authorities said Monday. Land was continuing to give way due to rain that has soaked the area in recent days, said the mayor of the southern hill town of Niscemi. […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Christina Harward, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War, says that the ‘Russian advances are coming at a literal foot-pace’ and ‘this is not the picture that the Russians are trying to paint’, adding that Russian casualties are astronomical. She explains that Russians are […]
Continue ReadingFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday a standoff with the US over Greenland was “a strategic wake-up call for all of Europe”, speaking alongside the leaders of Denmark and the Danish autonomous territory. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Federico Santopinto, Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, says that ‘Europe has had already several strategic wake […]
Continue ReadingAs countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money […]
Continue ReadingSince August 2025 Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of strikes against targets deep inside Russia. While the country’s Western allies have been reluctant to allow the use of long-range missiles for that purpose, they have not objected to Ukraine doing it with its domestically-produced weapons – principally drones – with the Americans even helping […]
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