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Concerns surround Israeli president’s visit to Netherlands’ National Holocaust Museum
The museum in Amsterdam tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps, as well as the history of their structural persecution under German World War II occupation before the…
Man arrested for crashing car into Buckingham Palace gates
The Metropolitan Police said the car "collided with the gates" of the royal residence at 02:30 GMT on Saturday.
Portugal votes with centre-right poised to oust Socialists
Final opinion polls published Friday show the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party (PS) but short of an outright majority in parliament, which could make the far-right party Chega a kingmaker for…
UK Trade Minister Kemi Badenoch says free trade pact is ‘possible’ before India’s…
India and the UK have been negotiating an FTA since January 2022 to significantly enhance the GBP 36 billion bilateral trading partnership.
France establishes abortion rights in its constitution on International Women’s Day
While abortion is a deeply divisive issue in the US, it's legal in nearly all of Europe and overwhelmingly supported in France, where it's seen more as a question of public health than politics.
Spain prosecutors seek jail term for Madrid coach Ancelotti in tax case
Madrid state prosecutor's office accused the 64-year-old Italian of having deprived Spain's treasury of over one million euros in earnings from image rights in 2014 and 2015.
Russia adds chess legend Kasparov to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’
The 60-year-old former world chess champion has been a longtime opponent of President Vladimir Putin and has repeatedly spoken out against Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine launch overnight drone attacks
Kyiv has appealed to its Western allies to help bolster its air defences to fend off systematic Russian aerial attacks on key infrastructure throughout the two-year invasion.
France enshrines abortion as constitutional right in world first, owe ‘moral debt’ to…
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the right to abort remained "in danger" worldwide, with our "freedoms in essence threatened... at the mercy of decision makers".
EU seeks to boost defence two years after Russia’s Ukraine invasion
An overall aim is to make up lost ground and see Europe's defence industry become as competitive as that of the US.
Ukraine says it has destroyed another Russian warship in the Black Sea
"One Russian ship has been upgraded to a submarine," Ukraine's defence ministry said in an ironic post on X.
France set to make abortion constitutional right
In January France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, overwhelmingly approved making abortion a "guaranteed freedom" in the constitution.
Left-wing firebrand wins UK by-election dominated by Israel-Hamas war
Galloway, long accused by critics of stoking community tensions, put the Gaza conflict front and centre of his campaign in Rochdale, which has a 30 percent Muslim population.
British govt watchdog says UK’s Rwanda deportation plan could cost nearly 500 million pounds
The Sunak-led Conservative government had earlier only revealed a 290 million-pound commitment. But new figures, costing nearly half a billion pounds, opened the plan to wider scrutiny from critics.
Alexei Navalny, who galvanised opposition to Putin, is laid to rest after his death in prison
Navalny's supporters said several churches in Moscow refused to hold the funeral for the man who crusaded against official corruption and organised big protests.
Russia’s Putin ‘warns’ that sending Western troops to Ukraine risks global nuclear…
Putin cast Western leaders as reckless and irresponsible and declared that the West should keep in mind the "tragic consequences" for any country that dared to send troops to Kyiv.
MEA says about 20 Indian citizens ‘stuck’ in Russian army; families of recruits say they…
An apple farmer, an airline caterer and an out-of-work graduate are among the Indians hired to fight in Ukraine; recruits say they were lured by promises of high salaries and a Russian passport.
Pope Gregory XIII gave us the leap year – but his legacy goes so much further
The need for calendar reform was driven by the inaccuracy of the Julian calendar.
France’s navy finds a body and looks for 2 people missing on the treacherous English Channel route
The maritime authorities overseeing French waters in the channel said about 180 people were assisted Wednesday in four rescue operations coordinated by the French side.
Russia jails veteran activist Orlov of Nobel-winning Memorial rights group
The 70-year-old, a key figure of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial group, is the latest target of Kremlin repression, which has intensified since the offensive in Ukraine.