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Andreas Rogal

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Ukraine: Kharkiv hit by massive Russian aerial attack

Kharkiv’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attack damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. According to him it was “the most powerful attack” on the city since the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Italy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins aid ship sailing to Gaza

Activist Greta Thunberg and 11 other people have set sail for Gaza on board a flotilla. The group aims to bring in some aid and raise “international awareness” of the situation in the enclave.

Turkey

Patriarch Bartholomew I marks 1,700th anniversary of Council of Nicaea

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big denominations.

Europe News

Two dead, hundreds arrested during PSG Champions League celebrations

Around 200 people were injured, 21 of whom were policemen. One officer is in an induced coma after being hit in the face by fireworks.

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Iran

IAEA: Iran has amassed more near weapons-grade uranium

In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency warns that Iran is now “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material" — something the agency said was of "serious concern.”

Europe News

Tight security in Munich for Inter vs PSG in Champions League final

Police is reckoning on around 500 violent-prone fans from Milan and 150 from Paris.

Europe News

Mexican navy sailing ship hits New York's Brooklyn Bridge

The vessel had 277 people aboard, 22 of them were injured, of whom 19 needed medical treatment.

Europe News

Zelenskyy: Power plants 'belong to the people of Ukraine'

The fate of Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia remains unclear as it is still under Russian control.

Europe News

Merz travels to Paris for dinner with Macron

The winner of Germany's parliamentary elections has travelled to Paris to meet the French president for a working dinner on Wednesday.

Culture news

Singer and pop icon Marianne Faithfull dies at 78

Her admirers included Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Rolling Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger, epitomising 'Swinging London'.

World News

Italy PM Meloni under investigation for repatriation of Libyan warlord

Meloni said her justice and interior ministers and an under-secretary are also targeted in the investigation.

Turkey

Death toll in Turkey's Kartalkaya ski resort fire rises to 76

The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Local media suggested that the wooden cladding on the hotel's exterior may have accelerated the spread of the fire.

Europe News

Protests in Georgia continue as new president is about to be elected

For the first time, the president of Georgia is not elected by popular vote.

Europe News

Pelosi hospitalised in Luxembourg after injury

The former US-House of Representatives Speaker had travelled to Luxembourg to attend commemorations on the 80th anniversary of WW II 'Battle of the Bulge'.

Europe News

Declassified reports hint at 'state actor' behind Georgescu's campaign

Five secret reports from different Romanian institutions and agencies have been made public by the country's president upon their request.

Israel

Israeli cabinet approves ceasefire deal with Hezbollah

US President Joe Biden announced that the ceasefire will come into force at 4am GMT on Wednesday morning.

Europe News

COP29 Baku: a platform from which to build on?

Several delegates stressed the significance of having reached an agreement and making progress in "difficult geopolitical times".

Europe News

German government on edge as Scholz fires his finance minister

"He has broken my trust too many times", the chancellor said of his Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

Europe News

Europe reels from far-right victory in eastern Germany elections

Will the results from Saxony and Thuringia influence Germany's energy transition and support for Ukraine?

Germany

Relief in Germany over French parliamentary elections turnaround

With most major politicians holding back until the official results are in, the extraordinary turnaround away from a looming hard-right government indicated by the exit polls has led to first reactions in the neighbouring European nation.

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