U.S. President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies to sharply raise defense spending as leaders gathered in Ankara, singling out Spain as a "terrible partner" for refusing to commit to a 5% GDP target by…
Thousands of protesters gathered outside Budapest's Sándor Palace on Thursday in a rally organised by Fidesz against the removal of President Tamás Sulyok, the opposition party mobilising under the sl…
A powerful magnitude-5.5 earthquake initially reported on Thursday near the Czech-Slovak border was downgraded to a minor tremor after seismologists determined the alert was triggered by routine quarr…
The NATO leaders' summit in Ankara entered its second and final day on Wednesday with a North Atlantic Council session at the heads-of-state level, as the alliance works to shift conventional defence…
Russian attacks killed at least 265 civilians and wounded 1,816 others across Ukraine in June 2026, marking the deadliest month since the first months of the full-scale invasion, according to prelimin…
President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies on Tuesday to channel rising defence budgets into American weapons systems, casting a shadow over a summit in Ankara where economic commitments dominate the…
Oil prices jumped more than 5% on Wednesday as mutual military strikes between the United States and Iran intensified and Washington moved to choke off Iranian crude exports. Brent futures climbed $3.…
Ukraine has installed 97 onshore wind turbines between 2023 and 2025, far outpacing Denmark's 22 over the same period, prompting questions to Danish Climate and Energy Minister Samira Nawa about the c…
Italy has arrested two former intelligence officers and expelled two Russian military attachés over what officials described as a systematic espionage operation funnelling state secrets to Moscow. The…
Ukraine's prosecutor general said on July 9 that no evidence has been found of Ukrainian state involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, rejecting German suspicions that the sabotage was car…
The European Union is weighing a diluted proposal to bar Russian military personnel from entering the bloc after France and Italy pushed back against a broader initial plan from the European Commissio…
The European Parliament has voted to hold an emergency ballot on Thursday over whether to revive a lapsed regulation allowing platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp to voluntarily scan private messa…
The European Commission has referred Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its caps on retail price margins, escalating a dispute over rules that Brussels says distort the single…
AI chatbots exhibit significant editorial bias and surface Russian disinformation when retrieving news, according to a study published Wednesday by Agora Digitale Transformation, a Berlin-based think…
A crowd of residents in Lviv overturned and damaged a military recruitment centre vehicle during a confrontation that left two servicemen with minor injuries, authorities said on Wednesday. The clash…
A Dublin man has been sentenced to 14 years in a high-security Hungarian prison without parole for the murder of American tourist Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse from Portland, Oregon. The Bu…
A Polish court on Wednesday sentenced a Russian man to seven years in prison for spying for Moscow's Federal Security Service and participating in a plot to mail an explosive device, while his wife re…
Czech President Petr Pavel has warned that Western allies have a narrowing two-month window to pressure Russia into peace negotiations with Ukraine before Moscow may escalate the conflict. Speaking on…
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is reviewing his cabinet's progress on its governing programme six months after the coalition of ANO, SPD, and Motorists won approval in early January. The third Babi…
Hungary's state television and radio networks suspended regular programming on 7 July in what Prime Minister Péter Magyar called a historic end to propaganda on public airwaves. The move fulfils a key…
The European Central Bank has given Europe's largest lenders until October 31 to submit plans for countering cybersecurity risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence models. The ECB's Supervisory…
A major fire broke out on Thursday morning in a ten-storey building in the former Bata shoe factory complex in Zlin, Czech Republic, causing an estimated 60 to 80 million korunas in damage to footwear…
Russia has banned exports of diesel following a government meeting on the fuel and transport sector held on 7 July 2026, as the country prepares to begin importing fuel this month to meet surging dome…
The Russian Athletics Federation has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging World Athletics' decision to maintain restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes' particip…
U.S. President Donald Trump proposed granting Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot air-defense missiles during a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit i…
U.S. President Donald Trump expressed optimism on Monday about a potential peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, saying both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky want a deal to end the war that…
President Donald Trump repeatedly misidentified Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Japan" during a press briefing in Ankara on Wednesday, claiming the country had fired 111 missiles at the USS Abraham L…
U.S. President Donald Trump declared a very successful NATO summit on Wednesday, telling reporters that fellow leaders expressed personal affection toward him and that he felt love in the room during…
Authorities in Italy and seven other countries have arrested 35 people and identified dozens more in a sweeping crackdown on the distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material online. Ital…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Rome will continue providing military assistance to Ukraine, with Defence Minister Guido Crosetto currently assessing the next steps, she told reporters at a…