The deadly collapse of a concrete overhang at a recently renovated train station has become a flashpoint for broader dissatisfaction with Serbia’s authoritarian rule. It has led to growing public demands for transparency in the graft-plagued country that has carried out a quick series of large infrastructure projects, mostly with Chinese companies.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says that Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against her and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and Africa.
The Air Force has again cut funding for the popular Recharge for Resiliency program that provides airmen and their families substantial discounts for recreational trips and other activities.
European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed to begin lifting sanctions on Syria, while insisting that the measures should be reimposed if they see any abuses by the country’s new rulers.
A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.
Auschwitz survivors warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders Monday on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced the fall of Velyka Novosilka, which had around 5,000 residents before the war, following a monthslong battle.
Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.
The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power.
The repatriation of Ossama Anjiem to Libya sparked outrage from human rights groups and questions from Italy’s opposition parties. Libya is a key partner in Europe’s efforts to keep migrants from crossing the Mediterranean and landing on its shores.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. has not stopped military aid to Ukraine after newly sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days. Zelenskyy did not clarify Saturday whether humanitarian aid had been paused.
A group of former American military officers and diplomats who served in Kyiv are teaming up with a Ukrainian winery owner to bring a taste of the Black Sea coast to a U.S. audience.