Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that he planned to replace the head of the country's SBU security service, Vasyl Maliuk, as part of a wider reshuffle that has also seen a new presidential chief of staff. Maliuk was appointed SBU chief in Feb 2023, having already served as act
Lebanon 's government on Friday signed a deal with an international consortium to explore gas in an offshore area bordering Israel. The deal for exploration at the so-called Block 8 off the coast of southern Lebanon comes after Lebanon and Israel signed a 2022 agreement over their maritime border.
Russia attacked two seaports in Ukraine's Odesa region on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring eight others, Ukrainian officials said. Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine's ports and foreign-flagged vessels sailing from them in recent weeks, after President Vladimir Putin vowed to cut Ukr
US and Ukrainian negotiators will revisit the thorny issues of territory and the fate of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, the most problematic points in peace talks to end Russia's war. Kyiv is under US pressure to secure peace in the
Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died in the bar fire on New Year's Eve that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope passed on his sympathies to the victims and their families. Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who
As he approached Le Constellation bar to celebrate the New Year in a snowy Swiss ski resort bright with Christmas lights, Dominic Dubois saw flames engulfing the building. "You could see the orange, the orange, yellow, red," Dubois told Reuters, describing chaotic scenes as bystanders and emergenc
Around 40 people have been killed and 100 injured, most of them seriously, after an explosion tore through a crowded bar during a New Year's Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana, Swiss officials said on Thursday. A fire broke out at 1.30 am (0030 GMT) in a bar called "Le Constellat
Swiss police believe around 40 people died and 100 were injured in a fire during a New Year's Eve party in the resort town of Crans-Montana, the Italian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. It added that the blaze was not thought to have been caused by arson. The victims could not be
Dozens of people are feared to have been killed and around 100 injured after an explosion tore through a crowded bar during a New Year's Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Swiss police said on Thursday. The Italian foreign ministry said information from Swiss police indicated about 40 de
Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual televised New Year's address to rally his troops fighting in Ukraine, saying he believed in them and in victory in a war that he has framed as part of an existential struggle with the West. US President Donald Trump is trying to broker an end to the
Finnish authorities have inspected a vessel suspected of causing undersea cable damage in the Gulf of Finland, President Alexander Stubb said on Wednesday. Baltic Sea nations have been on high alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded Ukr
General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia's General Staff, said on Monday that Moscow's forces were advancing in Ukraine along the entire front line, while Kyiv's forces were by contrast focused on defence and attempting to counter attack. In a televised meeting with President Vladimir Putin a
An emphatic election victory for Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti marks a resurgence for the nationalist leader, ending a political deadlock in Europe’s youngest state and potentially determining its domestic and international agenda for years. The win strengthens Kurti’s mand
