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Two towering plumes of smoke billow from smoldering vehicles and storefronts in central Dobropillia after a 500-kg Russian airstrike on 16 July 2025
Russia strikes shopping center in eastern Ukraine with 500-kilogram bomb
KYIV — Russia attacked a shopping centre in the eastern Ukrainian town of Dobropillia with a FAB-type 500-kg aerial bomb, killing at least four people and injuring 27 others, regional officials reported Thursday.Fifty-four retail outlets, 304 apartments, and eight vehicles have been struck, and a fire broke out following the attack, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as "simply horrific" and said there was "no military logic" to it.“This is horrendous, dumb Russian terror. Simply an attempt to kill as many as possible. Russia is all about vile strikes like this.”Dobropillia is a town located in the west of the Donetsk region, approximately 15 kilometres from the front line....
July 17, 2025

Russia strikes shopping center in eastern Ukraine with 500-kilogram bomb

Ukrainian soldiers fire shells on July 20, 2025, during fighting in the area of Pokrovsk, where Russian forces have made progress in recent days.
Russia tightens its stranglehold on Ukraine battlefield as Trump gifts Putin 50-day window
KYIV — US President Donald Trump’s 50-day pause ahead of possible secondary sanctions on Russia gifts the Kremlin a window to exploit the incremental gains of recent weeks, which analysts say increasingly put key Ukrainian strongholds in the east in peril.Russia is thought to be days or weeks away from surging into a heightened summer offensive, perhaps using the 160,000 troops Ukrainian officials have said are amassing near their front lines. But in the past two weeks, Russia has also made small but vital advances, placing its forces in a better position to cut off Ukrainian troops in three key towns – Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Kupiansk – on the eastern front line.The Kremlin appeared unperturbed by the new Trump deadline, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying on Tuesday:...
July 17, 2025

Russia tightens its stranglehold on Ukraine battlefield as Trump gifts Putin 50-day window

Ursula Von der Leyen
EU budget: Parliament revolts against Commission proposal
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament's members are deeply unsatisfied with the proposal for a seven-year budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) put forward by the European Commission on Wednesday and have threatened at the outset not to enter into negotiations on the paper.The level of information provided by Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin in a briefing to MEPs from the Parliament’s Committee on Budgets (BUDG) on Wednesday was deemed unsatisfactory by most. “Commission President’s Ursula von der Leyen is giving a press conference and she is giving to the press more information than you to us,” lamented Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt, the committee’s chair.Some of his colleagues underlined the lack of figures, official documents, and explanatory materials from...
July 17, 2025

EU budget: Parliament revolts against Commission proposal

Crews tackle a fire caused by a Russian air strike in Vinnytsia, 16 July, 2025
Russia launches fresh wave of overnight attacks targeting several Ukrainian cities
KYIV — Russian forces launched a fresh wave of attacks on several Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, with at least 15 people injured in one of the strikes.Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, through the night, the Ukrainian air force said.The strikes targeted north-eastern Kharkiv, which is Ukraine's second-largest city, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, Vinnytsia in the west and Odesa in the south."Russia does not change its strategy," Zelenskyy said. "To effectively counter this terror, we need a systemic strengthening of defence: more air defence, more interceptors, and more resolve so that Russia feels our response."A barrage of Iranian-made Shahed drones was fired in the early hours...
July 16, 2025

Russia launches fresh wave of overnight attacks targeting several Ukrainian cities

François Bayrou said France risked being crushed by debt
French PM looks to scrap two public holidays in bold bid to cut national debt
PARIS — France's Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash overall spending while also increasing defence expenses.Bayrou suggested axing Easter Monday and 8 May, a day that commemorates the Allied victory at the end of World War Two in Europe.He said the various bank holidays had turned the month of May into a gruyère — a Swiss cheese full of holes — although he added he was open to other suggestions.Bayrou runs the risk of having his budget voted down in parliament in the autumn, which could eventually cause his government to collapse.But on Tuesday he stressed that France — the eurozone's second economy — was "in mortal danger" of being crushed by debt.Standing in front of a lectern...
July 16, 2025

French PM looks to scrap two public holidays in bold bid to cut national debt

A new resettlement scheme has seen 4,500 Afghans arrive in the UK so far
Thousands of Afghans were moved to UK in secret scheme after data breach
LONDON — Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed.In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to the UK after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan were leaked.The previous government learned of the breach in August 2023 when some of the details appeared on Facebook.A new resettlement scheme for those on the leaked list was set up nine months later, and has seen 4,500 Afghans arrive in the UK so far.But the existence of the leak and relocations were kept secret after the government obtained a super-injunction stopping it from becoming public.Details of the major data breach, the response and the number of Afghans granted the...
July 16, 2025

Thousands of Afghans were moved to UK in secret scheme after data breach

Houthi supporters burn a US flag during a military march marking the anniversary of Yemeni unity in Sanaa, 22 May, 2024
German court rejects Yemeni plaintiffs' case over 2012 US drone strike deaths
BERLIN — Germany's highest court rejected a case on Tuesday brought by Yemeni plaintiffs who argued the German government failed in its duty to protect relatives who they say were killed in a 2012 drone strike that was carried out with help from a US military base in Germany.Ruling in a case that has been making its way through the German judicial system for over a decade, the Federal Constitutional Court found the German government can have a concrete duty to protect foreign citizens abroad in some cases.However, the court said that this could only apply when there is a "sufficient connection" to the German state's authority and "a serious danger of systematic violation" of international law.The judges found this case didn't fulfil those requirements.The...
July 15, 2025

German court rejects Yemeni plaintiffs' case over 2012 US drone strike deaths

Yulia Svyrydenko addresses the Italy Ukraine Business Forum in Rome, 20 November, 2024
Zelensky names Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's new PM
KYIV — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has invited the country's deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko to be prime minister."We are launching a transformation of the executive branch in Ukraine. I have invited Yulia Svyrydenko to head the government of Ukraine and to significantly upgrade its work," he said in a post on X."I look forward to presenting the new government's action program in the near future."Svyrydenko has a background as an economist and has held several positions in the Ukrainian government, including minister of economic development and trade and deputy head of the office of the president. — Euronews
July 14, 2025

Zelensky names Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's new PM

Leclerc tanks drive down the Champs-Élysées avenue during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, 14 July, 2025
France celebrates Bastille Day with annual military parade in Paris
PARIS — France is celebrating its biggest national holiday, Bastille Day, with military jet flyovers, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in almost every city.Around 7,000 people are marching on riding on horseback or in armoured vehicles, along the cobblestones of the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris, with events planned to take place across the country.The holiday marks the day when Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison on 14 July 1789, the event that sparked the French Revolution, ultimately overthrowing the monarchy.In the ensuing two centuries, France witnessed Napoleon's empire rise and fall, followed by uprisings and two world wars, before settling into today's Fifth Republic established in 1958.Bastille Day has become a central...
July 14, 2025

France celebrates Bastille Day with annual military parade in Paris

The practice of 'baby farming' is well known in West Africa, the court was told
Woman smuggled baby into UK using fake birth story
LONDON — Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl.The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was pregnant.That was not true.When the woman returned about a month later with the baby, she was arrested on suspicion of trafficking.The case, the second the BBC has followed through the Family Court in recent months, reveals what experts say is a worrying trend of babies possibly being brought to the UK unlawfully - some from so-called "baby factories" in Nigeria.'My babies are always hidden'The woman, who we are calling Susan, is Nigerian, but had been living in England since June 2023, with her husband and children.A...
July 14, 2025

Woman smuggled baby into UK using fake birth story

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