2023-01-27

Top News Stories Today

Latest news bulletin | January 27th – Midday

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Eva Green called "diva" in court over film collapse

Production of 'A Patriot' stopped in 2019. Now the film company and the actor are facing each other in court.

27/01/2023

West Bank

Rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel after deadly West Bank raid

Rockets were fired by Gaza militants overnight as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.

27/01/2023

Europe Decoded

In the weeds: Germany's plan to legalise cannabis in 2024 in doubt

Berlin unveiled its bold project to legalise cannabis in October 2022 but has yet to draft the law it then needs to present to the European Commission to launch talks.

27/01/2023

Ukraine

Moscow's 'big revenge' has begun and other top stories

Here are the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.

27/01/2023

Ukraine

Canada and France pledge tanks supplies for Ukraine

The announcement comes one day after the United States and Germany both announced they are sending battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month.

27/01/2023

World News

Migration: EU vows to punish 'uncooperative' countries

Brussels says it wants to crack down on states who do not accept the deportation of their own people from the bloc.

27/01/2023

Europe News

#LastSeen: Holocaust researchers appeal for Nazi deportation images

Historians want to collect, analyse, and publish photographic evidence of the forced removal of victims from German towns and cities well before they reached a camp.

27/01/2023

The Cube

Why is Elon Musk's Twitter being sued in Germany?

The organisations behind the lawsuit are hoping this will set an international legal precedent that will help communities around the world keep Twitter accountable

27/01/2023

Top News Stories Today

Latest news bulletin | January 27th – Morning

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Spanish museum returns paintings plundered by Nazi forces to Poland

Poland saw much of its cultural patrimony destroyed or looted during the country’s wartime occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Approximately 500,000 items are still missing.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Billionaire Richard Lugnar to bring Jane Fonda to Vienna Opera Ball

Richard Lugnar has somewhat of a reputation for getting some of the world's most sought after and influential women to waltz at the Vienna Opera Ball in the Austrian capital.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

Want to understand all the references in a Big Bang Theory episode, the discovery on this day in 1926 is the secret to it all.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Britain wants to ban laughing gas to reduce anti-social behaviour

Nitrous Oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, is the second most used drug in 16-24-year-olds after cannabis and is at the centre of an anti-social behaviour row.

27/01/2023

Russia

EU mission in Armenia condemned by Moscow

Russia's Foreign Ministry believes the EU mission will 'introduce geopolitical confrontation into the region and exacerbate the existing contradictions there'.

27/01/2023

Slovakia

'Forgotten' Holocaust heroes help Slovakia come to terms with its past

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler were the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and warn the world of concentration camp genocide.

27/01/2023

Ukraine

New barrage of Russian strikes in Ukraine kills at least 11

A fresh barrage of Russian strikes in Ukraine comes a day after Kyiv's allies confirmed they would send advanced military tanks to the war-torn country.

27/01/2023