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A wildfire has broken out in Glossop, Derbyshire, in northern England, as an intense early-summer heat wave continues to grip the UK, bringing unusually high temperatures and leaving vegetation dry and highly flammable. According to a statement by Derbyshire's Fire & Rescue Service on Thursday, firefighters are tackling the blaze on moorland near the town, […]

Countries bordering Russia must prepare for "various forms of escalation" as the security situation on NATO's eastern flank remains "highly unstable," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned Thursday. Speaking after a meeting of leaders from NATO's eastern flank in the northern Polish city of Gdansk, Tusk said countries sharing borders with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine […]

Germany’s co-ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) filed a criminal complaint against a party member for saying Muslims should be gassed to death, citing how the same was done to Jews in the Holocaust, press reports said Thursday. The Islamophobic remarks made by a CDU member in the western city of Krefeld caused outrage in the […]

The United Kingdom will provide Ukraine with a new package of military aid worth approximately €865 million. The official announcement regarding the allocation of military equipment was made by UK Defense Minister Dan Jarvis, according to the country’s government website. This financial support is being allocated from the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loan totaling approximately […]

Norway will allocate $190 million to buy extended-range ammunition to meet the current needs of Ukrainian forces on the front line, likely including 155 mm artillery shells. Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced this after a meeting with Norwegian Defence Minister Tore Sandvik. In addition, Norway will fund the maintenance of Ukraine’s F-16 fighter fleet […]

Good morning from Brussels, where the second day of the EU summit is getting underway. I’m Mared Gwyn. Let's first bring you up to speed on last night’s EU summit talks, which dragged on longer than expected and were dominated by European Council President António Costa's surprise decision to lay the groundwork for talks with […]

A new psychoactive substance appears on Europe's drug market about once a week. EU officials say synthetic opioids pose a risk so acute that a single gram can contain several thousand lethal doses. The warning comes from the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), which published its 2026 European Drug Report on 9 June. The report […]

Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks across Moscow early on Thursday morning, as it continued to target the Russian energy industry. In a series of posts on Telegram, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defences had intercepted 180 UAVS approaching the capital but that "several" had managed to strike a refinery in what he […]

The Netherlands will soon launch production of Ukrainian long-range and medium-range strike drones under a bilateral cooperation program. According to Fedorov, the drone production project will be funded by the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands. “As part of the Build with Ukraine program, we are launching the production of Ukrainian unmanned systems in the […]

Ukraine’s Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov confirmed that Kyiv is deliberately isolating Crimea from Russian supplies and ultimately from Moscow’s control. "Crimea is being isolated by drones. In the near future, it appears that the Crimean peninsula will turn into an island,” Fedorov said in an interview on Wednesday. "And this could lead to very unexpected […]