LONDON – Britain said on Wednesday it would provide more support, including items such as tents and blankets, to help survivors in freezing conditions in Turkey and Syria following earthquakes there. “Our priority is to ensure life saving assistance is given to those most in need, coordinated with the Turkish government, UN and international partne

VILNIUS – Firefighters in the Latvian capital Riga were tackling a blaze on Wednesday at a factory of a U.S.-based drone maker which supplies the Ukrainian army, Latvian public broadcaster LSM said. Lativa is the sole European production facility for U.S. company Edge Autonomy. LSM quoted a police spokesperson as saying officers investigating the i

KYIV – Ukraine will use all international legal mechanisms to try to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to justice for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over east Ukraine in 2014, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on Wednesday. “The difficulty of obtaining evidence and functional immunity do not allow prosecuting the presiden

By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Brazil’s central bank newfound independence that was designed to shield it from politics has turned it into a convenient punching bag for the new government that can use it to fire up its leftist base and blame it for economic woes. Since his Jan. 1 inauguration President […]

LONDON -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he would do everything he could to persuade the world to provide Ukraine with the modern planes Kyiv needs to help his forces defeat Russia. “We … will do everything possible and impossible to make the world provide us with modern planes to empower and protect pilots […]

AMSTERDAM – The Netherlands will continue to hold Russia to account for the downing of passenger flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Wednesday. Rutte said it was a “bitter disappointment” that the international investigation into the downing of MH17 had ended without further prosecutions for lack of [&h

An Egyptian fisherman who was facing a 4760-year sentence in a Greek prison has been sentenced to centuries in jail.  H. Elfallah was found guilty this week of ‘smuggling’ nearly 500 people from Libya to Greece in November 2022 — including 336 men, 10 women, 128 boys and nine girls — has ended up with […]

Armando is just one of thousands of students each year who enjoy the opportunity to study abroad without having to freeze their studies at their home university. Originally from Italy, he has recently started his new adventure in the Greek capital Athens, thanks to the Erasmus programme, which has been sending students across Europe to study abroad

The UK government said on Tuesday it was ready for legal challenges against a new law intended to stop migrants from reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel. Home Secretary Suella Braverman claimed the government had “pushed the boundaries of international law” with its bill barring asylum claims by anyone who reaches [&helli

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a fascinating discovery of a limestone sphinx statue with a “smiley face and two dimples” near the Hathor Temple, a well-preserved ancient site in the country.  The find, announced by the tourism and antiquities ministry, is just the latest in a series of discoveries made in recent months.  Researchers