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Ukrainian service personnel use searchlights as they search for drones in the sky over Kyiv on Tuesday night
Russia and Ukraine carry out attacks after Putin-Trump call
KYIV — Russia and Ukraine have launched air attacks that damaged each other's infrastructure, hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's targets included hospitals and power supplies. He said the Russian leader had in effect rejected a comprehensive ceasefire in his call on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump.Putin told Trump a full ceasefire would only work if Ukraine's allies stopped giving military assistance — a condition Ukraine's European allies have previously rejected.Officials in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot.Within hours of Putin agreeing to halt attacks on energy infrastructure,...
March 19, 2025

Russia and Ukraine carry out attacks after Putin-Trump call

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, speaks during a session of the lower house of parliament on March 18, 2025, in Berlin
Germany's parliament passes historic package boosting defense spending
BERLIN — Germany's parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country's constitutionally enshrined fiscal rules.The vote made it through the parliament with 513 votes in favour — above the 489 votes required.The law still needs a two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house representing the country's states, to become law.The crucial vote in the Bundestag followed weeks of debate sparked when Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and would-be coalition partners Social Democrats (SPD) unveiled plans to unleash hundreds of billions in spending through loosening Germany's constitutionally-enshrined "debt brake."Merz faced a tense race to push...
March 19, 2025

Germany's parliament passes historic package boosting defense spending

The functional toilet was called America
Gang guilty over £4.8m gold toilet heist
LONDON — A gang has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019.Michael Jones was found guilty of planning the burglary. Fred Doe was convicted of conspiring to sell the gold, while Bora Guccuk was cleared of the same charge.The BBC can now reveal the full criminal history of the heist gang's kingpin James Sheen. He has been jailed at least six times since 2005 and has led organised crime groups that made more than £5m from fraud and theft — money authorities have largely failed to recover.Five men were seen on CCTV carrying out the heist, but only two — Sheen and Jones —...
March 19, 2025

Gang guilty over £4.8m gold toilet heist

The legislation, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, passed in a 136-27 vote.
Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights
BUDAPEST — Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday banning Pride events and allowing police to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-wing populist party on the country's LGBTQ+ community.The legislation, supported by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner the Christian Democrats, passed in a 136-27 vote. It was pushed through parliament in an accelerated procedure after being submitted only a day earlier.It amends Hungary’s law on assembly to make it an offense to hold or attend events that violate the country's contentious "child protection" legislation, which prohibits the "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality to anyone aged under...
March 19, 2025

Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights

US President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of a press conference in Helsinki, 16 July, 2018
Putin rejects full ceasefire, agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine energy 
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, following a call with US President Donald Trump.The Russian leader declined to sign up to the comprehensive month-long ceasefire that Trump's team recently worked out with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.He said a comprehensive truce could only work if foreign military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine came to an end. Ukraine's European allies have previously rejected such conditions.US talks on Ukraine are due to continue on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said.In the grinding three-year war, Russia has recently been taking back territory in its Kursk region that was occupied by a...
March 19, 2025

Putin rejects full ceasefire, agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine energy 

In this photo taken on March 16, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, Ukrainian soldiers fire 120mm mortar towards Russian army positions
Trump says much remains to be agreed on Ukraine ceasefire with Putin
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday said that "much remains" to be agreed upon with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, ahead of a highly anticipated phone call centring on a ceasefire in Ukraine."Many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to, but much remains," Trump said.Trump confirmed on his Truth Social platform that he and Putin will speak on Tuesday morning about the proposal for a 30-day interim pause in fighting in the region.The Trump administration has been generally optimistic that it can secure Russian backing for the ceasefire agreement, which Ukraine has already agreed to."We’re going to see if we can work a peace agreement, a ceasefire and peace. And I think we’ll be able to do it,” Trump told reporters on...
March 18, 2025

Trump says much remains to be agreed on Ukraine ceasefire with Putin

John 'Paddy' Hemingway
'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies
LONDON — The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, has died at the age of 105.Hemingway, who was originally from Dublin, joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before World War Two.At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to Hemingway, saying his courage and those of all RAF pilots had "helped end WWII and secure our freedom".Those who fought in the three-and-a-half-month battle came to be known as "The Few" after a speech by the then Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill."Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by...
March 18, 2025

'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies

Germany has been Europe's main donor of weapons to Ukraine
Germany set to vote on historic increase in defense spending
BERLIN — What happens in Berlin on Tuesday will impact the entire future of Europe's defense and its ongoing support for Ukraine.Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, is voting on whether to take the brakes off defense spending. This could pave the way for a massive uplift in military investment just as Russia makes gains in Ukraine and Washington signals that Europe can no longer rely on US protection."This vote in the Bundestag is absolutely crucial," says Prof Monika Schnitzer, who chairs Germany's Council of Economic Experts."After the Munich Security Conference, then the Trump-Zelensky row, Europe got a wake-up call. For the first time Europeans may not be able to rely on Washington. A lot of people had sleepless nights after that.""The outlook...
March 18, 2025

Germany set to vote on historic increase in defense spending

Many have been paying respects to the young victims
North Macedonia mourns nightclub disaster
KOCANI — Marija Taseva was enjoying a night out with her sister at the Pulse club in Kocani, North Macedonia, on Saturday when disaster struck.They were watching DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country, when a fire broke out , which killed at least 59 people and injured 155 others."Everyone started screaming and shouting 'get out, get out!'" the 19-year-old told Reuters.People desperately tried to escape the flames but there was only one exit for around 500 people, as the only other door at the back of the venue was locked."I don't know how but I ended up on the ground, I couldn't get up and at that moment people started stomping on me," Ms Taseva said.She eventually managed to get to safety, but her sister did not."My sister died. I was saved...
March 17, 2025

North Macedonia mourns nightclub disaster

Only one member of the band survived and was being treated in hospital.
Ten detained after North Macedonia nightclub fire kills 59
KOCANI — Police have detained 10 people after a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia killed at least 59 people, officials have told the BBC.The blaze broke out around 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday at the Pulse club in Kocani, where about 500 people had gathered for a concert by DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country.Only one member of the band survived and was being treated in hospital, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office told the BBC's Newshour. In total, 155 were injured at the concert.Biljana Arsovska said short-term detentions had been issued for 10 suspects believed to be responsible for the fire — including "officials from the ministries which gave out this license".Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said on Sunday afternoon the venue did...
March 17, 2025

Ten detained after North Macedonia nightclub fire kills 59

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