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Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Winter Olympics on Thursday after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country’s war with Russia. In a statement, the International Olympic Committee said Heraskevych had been kicked out of the Milan-Cortina Games “after refusing to adhere to the IOC […]

Home Europe Live Issued on: 12/02/2026 – 07:13Modified: 12/02/2026 – 07:17 Recruits carry ammunition during training at a firing range in the Rostov-on-Don region of southern Russia on October 4, 2022. © AP Russia said Thursday that it repelled a missile attack in the Volgograd region but that debris ignited a fire at a military facility […]

Kosovo‘s parliament elected Albin Kurti as prime minister on Wednesday, securing the leader a third term and ending a year-long political gridlock in the country. Following 12 months in a caretaker position, Kurti was confirmed as the Balkan nation’s new prime minister after his Vetevendosje (Self-determination) party topped the results in a snap election in […]

Multiple social media users – many of them pro-Russian accounts – have shared a photomontage of a teenage boy carrying portraits at multiple funerals, falsely claiming he’d buried “eight fathers” and that it was proof of Ukrainian “wartime staging” to rack up sympathy from Western media. In reality, the photos have been spliced together without context, […]

Ukraine will only hold elections once it has security guarantees in place and a ceasefire with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, pushing back at suggestions he was planning to stage fresh ballots under US pressure. Elections in Ukraine have been effectively suspended since Russia invaded in 2022 due to martial law. “We will move […]

For Spotlight, François Picard welcomes Carl Henrik Knutsen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. For many years, he has studied the fragility and resilience of democratic institutions. The shockwaves caused by the Epstein files have struck a nerve in Norway, one of the Nordic countries regarded as a model of transparency and […]

For Spotlight, François Picard welcomes Carl Henrik Knutsen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. For many years, he has studied the fragility and resilience of democratic institutions. The shockwaves caused by the Epstein files have struck a nerve in Norway. One of the Nordic countries regarded as a model of transparency and […]

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome former New York State Assistant Attorney General Reed Brody. As someone who has spent decades holding the powerful to account, from brutal dictators to state officials, he recognises patterns of impunity cloaked in the legal process. In the case of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s network, we’re witnessing a […]

The release of the cache of new files in the US has revealed a host of new Jeffrey Epstein connections with politicians, royals and the ultra-rich right across Europe. In Oslo, the parliament has agreed to set up an independent commission to investigate the ties between the convicted sex offender and several prominent Norwegians, from […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there was no reason to be enthusiastic about US President Donald Trump’s pressure on Europe and Ukraine as there was still a long way to go in talks on peace in Ukraine, RIA reported on Tuesday. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine.