In 2019, investigators discovered almost 400 kilograms of heroin in the port of Felixstowe (GB) in a container that was heading to Antwerp in Belgium.Image: EPA Belgium’s justice system is in crisis. After an anonymous letter, a high-ranking judge and an attorney general are now warning that years of underfunding are encouraging drug crime and […]
Continue ReadingEU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos has urged European businesses to engage with candidate countries and help repeat the economic successes seen during previous rounds of EU enlargement, as new report findings from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise revealed that a large proportion of companies remain hesitant to engage. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING “Enlargement boosted exports, boosted supply […]
Continue ReadingMade the Tomhawk world famous: Tom Cruise in his star role as Lieutenant Pete Maverick Mitchell. Image: imago stock&people The American F-14 “Tomcat” achieved cult status thanks to Hollywood. The U.S. warplane has had an astonishing afterlife in the ranks of the Iranian Air Force. March 9, 2026, 6:39 p.mMarch 9, 2026, 6:39 p.m follow […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 09/03/2026 – 18:02 GMT+1 NATO forces have intercepted another Iranian missile heading to Türkiye for the second time in less than a week, as US-Israeli strikes on Iran and ensuing counterattacks throw the wider Middle East into conflict. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Last Wednesday, Türkiye’s Ministry of Defense said it intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 09/03/2026 – 17:36 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called on the European Union to suspend sanctions on Russian energy imports, citing rising energy prices across Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Oil prices have surpassed $100 (€87) per barrel for the first time since August 2022, threatening to push consumer prices higher. Natural gas […]
Continue ReadingThe campaign has targeted government personnel as well as individuals of interest to the Russian government, including journalists, the Dutch authorities said. They also emphasized that individual accounts have been compromised, not the messaging apps as a whole. Signal is used widely by public officials as a secure and independent communications channel, and has been […]
Continue ReadingThis part of the meteorite broke through the roof of a house in Koblenz (D) and landed in the bedroom. Picture: X A bright meteor unsettled many people in West Germany and Switzerland on Sunday evening. The fire department examined meteorite debris that had penetrated the roof of a house in Koblenz and did not […]
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 Belarusian journalist Pavel Dabravolski was convicted Monday of treason and sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison, activists said, the fifth media worker to be jailed in two […]
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Continue ReadingMacron told reporters at a military base in Cyprus that he discussed the potential mission with his Greek and Cypriot counterparts, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikos Christodoulides. Macron’s visit to Cyprus Monday comes after the island suffered drone attacks last week following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that plunged the region into conflict. “When Cyprus is […]
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