Germany agrees to ease rules

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.
23 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Citizenship: Germany agrees to ease rules

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.
23 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Firefighters battle blazes on multiple fronts

Greek firefighters yesterday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.
23 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Hitler’s birth house to be turned into police station

The redesign of Adolf Hitler’s birth house will go ahead as planned, starting on October 2, Austria’s interior ministry said Monday, after a documentary aired new claims about the late Nazi dictator’s wishes for it.
22 August 2023, 18:00 PM

AI likely to augment rather than destroy jobs

Artificial Intelligence is more likely to augment jobs than to destroy them, a UN study indicated on Monday, at a time of growing anxiety over the potential impact of the technology.
22 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon in failure

Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme.
20 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia targets independent election monitor in raids

Russian security forces yesterday launched mass raids targeting the independent election monitoring group Golos, the group said, as its co-chair was taken in for questioning.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Man arrested after Eiffel Tower jump

A man was arrested in Paris yesterday after jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute, police and the monument’s operator said
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Fire at Russian fuel station kills 35

At least 35 people were killed in an explosion that created a huge fire ball at a fuel station in Russia’s remote Caucasus republic of Dagestan, spurring condolences from President Vladimir Putin yesterday.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia air strikes target western Ukraine

Russian air strikes hit two western regions of Ukraine bordering Nato member Poland and other areas yesterday, killing three people and wounding more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Three Bulgarians arrested in Britain

British police said yesterday they had charged two men and a woman with identity document offences after the BBC reported the group were accused of spying for Russia.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Tourists found sleeping it off atop Eiffel Tower

Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Monday, after dodging security the night before, the monument’s operator said yesterday.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia delivering order to India on schedule: official

Russia will deliver an order of S-400 anti-aircraft systems to India within the agreed timeframe, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian defence export official yesterday as saying.
14 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia launches first Moon mission in 50yrs

Russia yesterday launched its first probe to the Moon in almost 50 years, a mission designed to give fresh impetus to its long-struggling space sector, which has been also hit by sanctions since the conflict in Ukraine.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Over 100,000 crossings made since 2018: UK

More than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats from France to southeast England since Britain began publicly recording the arrivals in 2018, official figures revealed yesterday.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM

‘No evidence’ Facebook harms well-being: study

There is “no evidence” that the growth in using Facebook led to “widespread psychological harm”, the largest independent scientific study on the topic concluded Wednesday, contradicting previous analyses and widespread perceptions.
10 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia downs wave of Ukrainian drones

Russia downed 11 Ukrainian drones nearing Crimea and two headed for Moscow, officials said yesterday, the latest in a blitz of air strikes on Russian-held territory.
10 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Central Mediterranean: 41 people dead in migrant shipwreck

Italian authorities yesterday said 41 migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, according to accounts by survivors who have been taken to the island of Lampedusa.
9 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Russian missiles destroy apartments, hotel

Russian missiles struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk twice on Monday night, destroying a popular hotel and apartments, killing at least seven people and wounding scores, officials said yesterday.
8 August 2023, 18:00 PM

UK police arrest man after stabbing outside museum

Police in London arrested a man yesterday after a stabbing outside the British Museum which led to the evacuation and temporary closure of the popular tourist attraction.
8 August 2023, 18:00 PM