The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich will remain shut on Wednesday until at least 5 pm (1500 GMT) after police said they discovered explosives in a residential building in the north of the city that caught fire and left one person dead. As part of a major operation that police earlier s
The Kremlin on Monday accused the authorities in Moldova of preventing hundreds of thousands of Moldovans living in Russia from voting in an important parliamentary election by providing only two polling stations for voters in the country. Moldova's pro-European Union ruling party won a resounding
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged his Labour Party on Sunday to stop "navel gazing" and unite against Reform UK, accusing the rising populist party of planning a "racist policy" of mass deportation if it wins power. Labour is well behind Reform in opinion polls, and Starmer kicked off its
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's prison sentence has deepened divisions in France over judges' handling of political wrongdoing, months before far-right chief Marine Le Pen attempts to overturn an embezzlement conviction and run for top office. A Paris court jolted the political sphere on Thursd
Moldova's election authority excluded the pro-Russian political party 'Greater Moldova' from participating in Sunday's parliamentary vote due to suspected illegal financing, officials said on Saturday. The decision was made late on Friday. It is the second pro-Russian party to be excluded within d
Unidentified drones were observed near military installations in Denmark overnight, the Armed Forces said on Saturday, following several drone incursions near airports and critical infrastructure this week. "The Danish Defence can confirm that drones were observed at several of the Danish Defence'
Disruption to airports caused by drones is an irritant but is unlikely to affect profitability, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said on Thursday. "Really, I don't think it's going to affect profitability," he said. "It disrupts our operations. We recover pretty quickly. You know, the airlines are us
Russia's finance ministry proposed raising the rate of value-added tax on Wednesday to 22 per cent from 20 per cent in 2026 to fund military spending in what would be the fifth year of the war in Ukraine. The proposal comes as US President Donald Trump called Russia a "paper tiger" for "fighting a
The judge in the trial of the sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers ruled on Wednesday that key military statements could be entered as evidence by prosecutors. Judge Patrick Lynch said the hearsay statements th
Moldovans are facing a flood of disinformation driven by artificial intelligence ahead of a critical parliamentary election, which will determine whether the small country can stay on its path toward the European Union or is pulled back into Moscow’s orbit. Ahead of Sunday's vote to choose a
Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a UN expert said on Monday. Rights groups say President Vladimir Putin's government has lurched further into authoritarianism since the fu
Russia on Monday accused NATO member state Estonia of falsely claiming that Russian military jets had violated its airspace last week, saying Tallinn had no evidence to back up its claim and was seeking to ratchet up East-West tensions. Estonia said on Friday that three Russian MiG-31 fighte
NATO member Poland will not hesitate to shoot down objects that violate its airspace and pose a threat, but will take a more cautious approach to situations that are less clear-cut, the prime minister said on Monday. Estonia said three Russian fighter jets violated its airspace on Friday, adding t
