By Annabel Murphy It’s early morning in May and Dutch farmer, Jos Verstraten is busy harvesting the first cut of grass on his sandy soil farm in the south east of the country, close to the German border. The harvest will be dried, compressed and stored to use as feedstock for 150 dairy cows during […]

“The Russian army has attacked Kherson three times tonight. The islands and the shore communities were shelled…” – local media reports, citing the regional authorities. Reports like this come regularly from the southern Ukrainian city that used to be in the headlines during the initial stages of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukr

Ukrainian border guards released a video on Monday purportedly showing their forces fighting in the embattled city of Bakhmut, amid claims by Russian forces that they have captured the city. The undated video was published with a caption reading “Bakhmut fortress. We stand”, with no additional information. The video shows a small group of soldiers

Britain said that together with its Challenger 2 tanks, it would also be sending Ukraine armour-piercing shells containing depleted uranium (DU). The UK has described the comment as disinformation as Russian President Vladimir Putin accused London of proliferating “weapons with a nuclear component”. So, what are these depleted uranium s

It was on April 3, 1973, that an engineer working for American company Motorola made a phone call that ushered in a new era for humanity. The phone he was using weighed nearly a kilo. It took 10 hours to charge for 30 minutes of call time. But the Motorola DynaTac 8000X was the world’s […]

Mixed reality glasses, unmanned underwater vehicles, 3D radars, radio frequency analysers, and 360 cameras – these aren’t items from a sci-fi film. They are what’s being used on the EU border. Since the 2015 Migration Crisis, which saw over one million people seek asylum in Europe, the EU and its partners have deployed increasingly more

The right-wing party led by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has pushed forward proposed new  legislation which will punish the use of English and other foreign words in official communications with fines between €5,000 and €100,000. The goal of the legislation, which has received wide condemnation in the country even by Italy’s most renowned

Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaci, has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as his trial got underway Monday at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. Thaci, who served as commander-in-chief of the ethnic Albanian rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), is accused together with three others of crimes [&

At least three people died and eight others were injured in three separate shooting incidents in the crime-plagued French city of Marseille overnight Sunday to Monday, police said. This has increased fears that tit-for-tat violence between rival drug gangs in the southern port city is spiralling out of control after a spate of fatal shootings [&hel

Residents of Paris have voted overwhelmingly to ban for-hire electric scooters from the city’s streets, in what is seen as a victory for road safety campaigners. In a referendum on Sunday, 90 per cent of voters backed the ban, but with less than 8 per cent of those eligible placing a vote. The scooters are […]