Daniel Bellamy

Europe News

Ukrainian strike reportedly kills one person in Russian-occupied city

Meanwhile, three civilians were injured after the Russian army shelled the city of Kherson on Saturday morning, local media reported.

8 February 2025

Lebanon

Newly appointed prime minister Nawaf Salam forms government in Lebanon

President Joseph Aoun has accepted the resignation of the former caretaker government and signed a decree with the new prime minister to form the new government.

8 February 2025

Ukraine

Ukraine's president says North Korean troops have returned to battle

Ukraine's claim came just days after South Korea's intelligence service stated that North Korean troops had been pulled back from the front lines.

8 February 2025

Europe News

Baltic states cut Russian electricity ties, ending decades of reliance

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all disconnected from the Soviet-era grid on Saturday morning and will merge with the European energy system on Sunday.

8 February 2025

USA

US judge stops Musk's DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury data

A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material.

8 February 2025

Russia

Russia and Ukraine blame each other for attack on school in Russia

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region, that Ukraine has controlled for five months.

2 February 2025

USA

US businesses fear Trump's tariffs will trigger inflation

The Budget Lab at Yale University estimates Trump's tariffs would cost the average American household 965 euros to 1,160 euros in annual purchasing power.

2 February 2025

Somalia

US airstrikes target IS fighters in Somalia, Trump says

The US president said he had ordered airstrikes on the so-called IS group targets in Somalia on Saturday.

1 February 2025

Sudan

Dozens killed after market is shelled by paramilitary group in Sudan

An attack on an open market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman by a paramilitary group killed 54 people and wounded at least 158, health authorities said on Saturday.

1 February 2025

Myanmar

Four years ago Myanmar's military staged a coup and sparked a war

Peace prospects look bleak as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government.

1 February 2025

United Kingdom

UK ambulance service pleads with public to stop non-urgent calls

Ambulance Service, is the patient breathing? Yes, but we haven’t got any heating due to a power cut, can someone bring us a heater?

1 February 2025

Norway

Norway releases Russian-crewed ship after cable damage investigation

Norway has released a Russian-crewed ship authorities suspected of damaging a fibre optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.

1 February 2025

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Rebels move deeper into eastern DR Congo as UN says hundreds killed

Rwanda-backed rebels are quickly expanding their presence in eastern DR Congo after capturing Goma, the region's major city, the U.N. said on Friday.

1 February 2025

Venezuela

Venezuela frees six US citizens after Trump's envoy meets Maduro

The visit by the envoy came as a shock to many Venezuelans who hoped that Trump would continue the “maximum pressure” campaign he pursued against Maduro during his first term.

1 February 2025

Gaza

Three Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed

Israel has begun releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners after Hamas freed three hostages as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.

1 February 2025

Italy

Italian court refers asylum seekers case to ECJ in challenge to Meloni

The Italian appeals court refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a controversial migration deal.

31 January 2025

Health news

New CIA report claims COVID 'probably' leaked from Chinese lab

It points the finger at China, despite acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion of a lab leak in Wuhan.

26 January 2025

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Thousands flee as rebels enter the outskirts of the city of Goma

M23 rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in Dr Congo said.

26 January 2025

USA

Trump floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza by depopulating it

“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’”

26 January 2025

Poland

A third coal miner dies in Poland after a methane explosion

The victims were among 16 miners injured at the Knurow-Szczyglowice coal mine on Wednesday, when methane gas ignited about 850 metres below ground level.

26 January 2025