The oil tanker ‘Eventin’, believed to be part of Russiaโs efforts to evade sanctions, was already towed into safer waters by a German tugboat in January after it was discovered adrift in heavy seas off the Baltic coast.
Elon Muskโs visit to the Pentagon on Friday will focus on the threat China presents to the region but wonโt include classified war plans, according to an official with knowledge of the plans. The meeting, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Indo-Pacific commander Adm. Sam Paparo โ who will attend virtually from Hawaii โ shows [โฆ]
Alexander Skobov jailed for 16 years over social media post and alleged involvement in opposition groupA Soviet-era dissident has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia for his anti-war views, in a case that observers say highlights how the cou…
Suspects used fake online accounts to lure people to remote places, then filmed abusing and robbing them.
Amid uncertainty as to when part-ceasefire will take effect, Kremlin says it will cover only โenergy infrastructureโWaves of Russian drones pounded the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, setting it ablaze in an attack that underscored Moscowโs int…
“They will be found,” warns U.S. President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser as White House lashes out at the media.
Thousands of passengers will be affected after a huge fire at an electrical substation, with 1,351 flights scheduled at Heathrow on Friday.
The weeklong blitzkrieg on the EUโs fiscal rules generated more blowback than Germany ever expected.
If thereโs ever a good time to explore dangerous, innovative tools whose impacts on society and humanity as we know it we still donโt really understand, thatโs definitely now.
โWe expect that in the era of the new leader โฆ Russia will return to the Olympic podium,โ Moscow’s sports chief said.
Actor suggests she may have been intentionally smeared and says โno one has to forgive meโ after recent controversyKarla Sofรญa Gascรณn has described herself as โless racist than Gandhiโ and insisted โno one has to forgive me for anythingโ as she returns…
Journalists working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty at risk of being stranded without legal status after Trump administration decisionExiled Russian journalists are being left โhigh and dryโ and at risk of being stranded overseas without any legal …
Some 37 people have been arrested for “provocative” social media posts, the interior ministry says.
Accredited journalists are invited to an under-embargo briefing on a new survey on what the public think about the EU and its priorities. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2025 – EP
Ursula von der Leyen shuns the media and favors social media posts to position herself as the embodiment of Europe while avoiding critical questions.
Commons leader Lucy Powell tells POLITICO a new review will consider whether long hours are excluding MPs with disabilities and impairments.
Search continues for missing woman after three tourists were caught by rushing snow in Lyngen municipalityA tourist buried by an avalanche in northern Norway has been pulled out alive in a โmiracleโ rescue after spending seven hours trapped beneath the…
With France about to advise its citizens on how to survive an โimminent threatโ, itโs time to wise up to what the real essentials areItโs a fairly strong indication that your US presidency is not going well when, within three months of you taking offic…
The call came a day after Trumpโs lengthy conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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After Romanian ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu was disqualified from the country’s presidential race, a series of posts sharing disinformation have appeared on social media platforms. Euroverify debunks their claims.
MEPs are demanding the Parliament president strengthen internal reporting mechanisms.
Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis stressed the flexibility is a stop-gap until countries reframe budgets around higher defense needs.
Held 100 days after the inauguration of the new European Commission and following the publication of the Clean Industrial Deal, the Competitiveness & Security Business Summit 2025 (CSBSโ25) provides a timely platform for high-level discussions on t…
Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu of CHP opposition party detained alongside 100 others accused of corruption and links to terror groupsTurkish police have arrested the mayor of Istanbul, detaining the primary challenger to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan, in dawn ra…
A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done โ and who is going to pick up the bill.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media terminated the global news outletโs federal grant Saturday, a move that would effectively gut its operation.
In ending media mission Washington will be “ceding territory to the Russians, the Iranians and the Chinese,โ says Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty CEO.
Russia is delaying a full ceasefire in Ukraine. But that didn’t stop Trump and Putin planning hockey matches for the future.
German lawmakers gave the green light on Tuesday for a colossal spending boost for defence and infrastructure pushed by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz amid deep fears in Europe over the future strength of the transatlantic alliance. The unpreced…
Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv.
Belgian authorities on Tuesday charged four people on counts of corruption and criminal organization.
Booklet to give guidance on preparing for โimminent threatsโ including armed conflict and natural disasterThe French government is reportedly planning to send a โsurvival manualโ to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for…
The senior Green Party politician could be on track for a position heading the General Assembly.
โWe couldnโt shut them down, unfortunately, but America did so itself,” editor-in-chief of Russia’s state broadcaster said.
Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used โfor everything โ the writing, the headlines, the quotes โฆ even the ironyโ An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an edition entirely produced by artificial intelligence.The ini…
European Union government ministers are discussing ways to keep the pro-democracy media outlet afloat after the Trump administration stopped its grants over the weekend.
Ukraine โ and the world โ watches with bated breath.
Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.
57 MEPs from five political groups are urging the Commission to defend the Audiovisual Media Services Directive against the US.
Rural communities are more than energy consumersโthey are critical contributors to Europeโs industrial and energy ecosystem.
Britain may have left the EU, but when it comes to keeping our continent safe, Europe cannot afford to be less than the sum of our parts.
Kaja Kallas says the bloc cannot automatically fill the gap left by the USThe EUโs foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, expressed disappointment over US funding cuts to Radio Free Europe and said the EU could not automatically fill the gap.The US Agency …
The former mixed martial arts champ โ recently found civilly liable in Ireland for raping a Dublin woman โ brings his anti-immigration message to the White House.
Russian leader and US president to speak by phone and discuss Ukraine ceasefire planPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has commented on the Lithuanian prosecutor generalโs report on Russian-linked acts of sabotage and arson in the EU (9:42), linking it …
Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law โin nearly all aspectsโItalyโs government has profoundly undermined the rule of law with changes to the judiciary and showe…
“Il caso Al-Masri” raises serious questions over Rome’s dealings with Libya.
Defence minister says Ukraine โsystematically transformingโ its military; Macron says allied security force does need Russiaโs blessing. What we know on day 1,118The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has appointed Andriy Gnatov as chief of the…
French Socialist MEP says Washingtonโs embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.
“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale,” French president says.
The decision to stop funding media including Voice of America “will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda,” the White House said.
President Trump’s administration has cut off funding for Voice of America, Radio Liberty and other pro-democracy media that broadcast to undemocratic states.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the fire, which broke out early Sunday morning.
President Donald Trump is gutting U.S.-backed global media, including Voice of America, that broadcasts news to millions worldwide โ and that he has long held a grudge against. The move comes after Trump signedย an executive order to hollow out a string of small government agencies and officesย late Friday. The order calls for the U.S. Agency [โฆ]
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The attacks are the largest foreign military action taken to date by the Trump administration.
For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence.
Abu Khadija was considered “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” Iraqi prime minister says.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africaโs ambassador to the U.S. is a โrace-baiting politicianโ who is no longer welcome in the country โ the latest sign of tension between the Trump administration and the African nation. Rubio declared that Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool is persona non grata in a social media post [โฆ]
A deal cut in Berlin on Friday secured enough votes to pass a massive debt-backed infrastructure and military spending package, according to German media reports.
Russian air defences repelled an attack by four drones flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday, with no injuries reported in the capital or in an earlier attack on an oil complex in one of Russia’s southern regions. State media report…
Russia may have to accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine while Kyiv could be forced to cede territory and abandon hopes of NATO membership, U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz indicates.
As it chooses a new president, the worldโs biggest sporting event is facing an exodus of major sponsors and a fast-changing media landscape
The country’s air force has recommended buying the jets, but the outgoing defense minister said “the predictability of our allies” must be taken into account when making procurement decisions.
The Arctic island’s election winner panned U.S. president’s comments as “unacceptable.”
The prosecutor’s office said it raided 21 addresses in Belgium, according to local media.
A Facebook post by an ex-KGB agent claiming that Donald Trump was recruited by Moscow in 1987 under the code name ‘Krasnov’ has sent social media into a spin. What’s the story behind the claim? Euroverify investigates.
His predecessor, Anastasia Colosimo, is expected to join the private sector.
From stringent media rules to meticulously controlled meals, the new coalition is leaving nothing to chance, a leaked document shows.
Christo Grozev, forced to flee Austria for his journalistic investigation of secret Russian operations, is the central focus of a dynamic and powerful story Finally getting a release after the verdict in the Bulgarian spy-ring trial, James Jonesโs grip…
This live coverage has ended, thank you for following along. You can find all of the latest Ukraine news here.Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and partially occupied Zaporizhzhia…
The procedure has been kick-started after an anonymous email was sent to the media, accompanied by a video and a letter.
The Russian leader promised to treat captured forces as “terrorists.”
Muskโs most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.
Irelandโs visiting prime minister endures an excruciating 45 minutes in Trumpโs live-TV star chamber as the U.S. leader swings at Brussels, not Dublin.
Investigation showed pro-Russia groups were offering crypto payments in exchange for hybrid attacks across Europe.
The man filmed the fire to “document the act of sabotage,” according to Polish prosecutors.
In a remarkable volte-face, the U.S. is making clear it now regards Russia as the “impediment” to peace if it rejects a ceasefire.
The attack killed at least five people.
The pro-Western opposition figure has been in detention since October 2021.
Europe faces a unique challenge: maintaining an open economy in an increasingly complex and hostile geopolitical landscape, while ensuring the technology industry remains a key resource for its competitiveness and resilience.
The Democrats party comes first, after its leader clapped back at the U.S. president, saying Greenland is not for sale.
A minority of MPs in the ruling Labour Party are feeling mutinous โ but there’s a sharp divide among its newest members.
It will be Portugalโs third parliamentary election in as many years.
Since pontiff was hospitalised conspiracy theories have swirled online claiming he has diedWhile Pope Francis was being treated for double pneumonia, Italian TikToker Ottavo made his way unchallenged into a ward at Gemelli hospital in Rome, followed by…
Evidence of Ukrainian involvement in X disruptions is very thin, cyber experts say.
The White House said it would not double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum after Ontario agreed to pause new duties on electricity exports to the U.S.
Since Donald Trump has made overtures to Moscow and JD Vance has proclaimed that free speech is threatened in Europe, the far-right broadcasters and newspapers owned by Vincent Bollorรฉ are backing Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s defense ministry said it shot down down 337 drones, with 74 over the capital.
Contrary to what the wall-to-wall coverage of Greenlandic affairs in international media might lead one to believe, the election is about redefining ties with Copenhagen.
An extraordinary social media row erupted over the weekend between top U.S. and Polish officials over Starlink. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski of “making things up” and suggested on Sunday he wa…
The purported cyberattack comes amid a groundswell of unrest over his crusade to slash the federal government.
Henna Virkkunen tells U.S. member of Congress that the EU is ‘deeply committed’ to protecting free speech.
The problem is media outlets canโt abandon X because thatโs where the news โ and the readers โ still are.
What does the future of European defense look like, now that the United States is retreating from the continent? Sylvie Kauffmann, foreign affairs columnist at Le Monde and specialist in international relations, answers reader questions on social media.
Reform UK leader’s falling-out with a fellow MP is the latest in a long list of quarrels with allies.
Horaลฃiu Potra called the election bureau’s decision to block Cฤlin Georgescu’s presidential bid a “globalist coup.”
Polish prime minister tells โfriendsโ to cast aside arrogance after his foreign minister and Marco Rubio trade barbs onlineDonald Tusk, Polandโs prime minister, has called on โfriendsโ to respect their allies and not be arrogant in a post on X that men…
Elon Musk slams Romanian authorities for banning far-right frontrunner Cฤlin Georgescu. Itโs another win for the Kremlin.
U.S. Trump administration has been pressing Romanian officials to allow him to stand in May’s vote.
