AI not a reliable source of news, EU media study says
22 October 2025, 02:41 AM
Sarkozy begins 5-yr prison sentence
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
France's ex-leader Sarkozy jailed, proclaiming his innocence
21 October 2025, 17:44 PM
EU seeks ways to step up checks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
20 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Amazon’s outage disrupts internet services
20 October 2025, 18:19 PM
Italian coastguard rescues dozens of migrants, 2 dead
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe
20 October 2025, 15:44 PM
Louvre’s prized jewels stolen in daring heist
19 October 2025, 18:17 PM
Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
19 October 2025, 14:15 PM
Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
19 October 2025, 02:45 AM
German anti-migrant far-right vigilantes stopped at Polish border from patrolling
German police said on Sunday they had stopped more than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who were trying to patrol the Polish border to stop migrants from entering the country.
24 October 2021, 11:19 AM
Erdogan says he ordered to declare 10 Western countries' envoys unwanted
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries 'persona non grata' for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.
23 October 2021, 18:36 PM
Ukraine posts record Covid deaths and cases for second day
Ukraine’s capital on Friday reimposed restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus as the ex-Soviet nation reported record Covid-19 deaths and cases for the second day in a row.
23 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Amnesty presses Italy on Covid probe as parliament stalls
Italy should urgently launch a public inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Amnesty International rights group said yesterday, as lawmakers in Rome dithered over the issue.
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Fire kills 15 at Russian explosives factory
Fifteen people died and one person was missing after a fire broke out at a Russian explosives factory southeast of Moscow yesterday,
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Europe will miss her’
European leaders heaped praise on German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday as she attended what is likely her last EU summit after a 16-year reign heavily influencing the bloc through major ups and downs.
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Very worried’
UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the current climate situation was “a one-way ticket for disaster” and stressed the need to “avoid a failure” at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
NATO's new Russia plan shows plan to cut ties was right: Moscow
The Kremlin said on Friday that NATO's adoption of a new Russia-focused strategy confirmed that Moscow's decision to sever ties with the bloc had been correct.
22 October 2021, 10:14 AM
‘Big John’, largest-ever triceratops, sells for 6.6m euros
The fossilised remains of ‘Big John’, the largest triceratops dinosaur ever discovered by paleontologists, sold for 6.65 million euros ($7.74 million) at a Paris auction yesterday.
21 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Turkey warns of expelling 10 western envoys
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday threatened to expel the US, German and eight other Western ambassadors after they issued a rare joint statement in support of a jailed civil society leader.
21 October 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Window for action closing’
Denmark, Costa Rica, the Marshall Islands and six other countries yesterday urged the world’s biggest economies to hike their climate pledges, warning that their actions would set the tone for the upcoming COP26 summit in Scotland.
21 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Fasting boosts lifespan in mice
Eating less often does more to improve the health and lifespan of rodents than simply eating less, a study said Monday.
19 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Trial begins of 96-yr-old Nazi war criminal suspect after failed escape attempt
A 96-year-old German woman who was caught shortly after going on the run ahead of a court hearing last month on charges of committing war crimes during World War Two appeared before a judge on Tuesday in the northern town of Itzehoe.
19 October 2021, 13:59 PM
Stab wounds, not bow and arrow behind deaths in Norway attack: Police
Five people killed in a small Norwegian town last week were all stabbed to death and not shot with a bow and arrows as initially suspected, police said on Monday.
18 October 2021, 18:47 PM
EU has exported ‘over 1 billion’ Covid vaccine doses
The European Union has exported “over one billion” doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past 10 months, the bloc’s chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday.
18 October 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
2001 - At least 350 people were killed when an overcrowded boat, on its way to Australia from Lampung in Sumatra carrying mostly Iraqi asylum seekers, sank near Java.
18 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia suspends its mission to Nato
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that Moscow was suspending its mission to Nato and closing the Western military bloc’s liaison mission in Russia, in a row over spying.
18 October 2021, 18:00 PM
No time to lose
The science is painfully clear: to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius -- given that we’re already at 1.1C -- means slashing carbon pollution in half by 2030, and to zero by mid-century.
17 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia reports record daily virus cases again
Russia yesterday reported a new record for coronavirus infections for a fourth day in a row, a day after the worst-affected country in Europe set a new death toll high.
17 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Macron condemns ‘inexcusable’ Paris massacre of Algerians
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961
17 October 2021, 18:00 PM