Turkish police have detained 525 suspected drug dealers in dawn operations across the capital Ankara in what Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said was the "biggest narcotics operation" in the country's history.
The operation involved thousands of (...)
Authorities have dismantled four major criminal networks responsible for fuelling the flow of drugs into the European Union and Turkey, the EU's law enforcement agency Europol said in a statement.
It follows a series of "coordinated raids" supported (...)
The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired after she reportedly sent an email distancing herself from Vice President JD Vance's criticism of Denmark.
The US military's Space Operations Command said Col Susannah Meyers had been (...)
Ukraine's key allies from across the globe have announced €21 billion in new military support at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) held in NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday.
The group, once exclusively led by the US but now (...)
Last year, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius declared that Germans "must be ready for war by 2029". The government is ramping up defense spending, and car manufacturers are considering repurposing factories to produce military supplies as the (...)
US special envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to "get moving" on a ceasefire in Ukraine.
It will be Witkoff's third meeting with Putin this year, during which the US has (...)
Iran is ready to engage with the US at talks on Saturday over its nuclear program "with a view to seal a deal", its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.
But US President Donald Trump must first agree there can be no "military option", Araghchi (...)
Police in India have arrested a man, who is accused of impersonating a British doctor, for performing surgeries that allegedly led to the death of seven patients.
Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav — also known as Dr N John Camm — worked as a cardiologist (...)
The US and Iran will hold "direct talks" over a possible nuclear deal on Saturday, says Donald Trump.
The meeting has also been confirmed by Iran's foreign minister who said the talks would be "indirect" but could be "as much an opportunity as it is (...)
A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.
The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's (...)
The United States announced Saturday that it is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and halting the issuance of new visas, citing the African nation's refusal to accept deported nationals.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (...)
Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), its government said Wednesday, as the country's Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed Israeli Prime Minister and ICC fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest.
Netanyahu's visit to (...)
Spain will push for the use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's defense during the G5+ (Weimar+) summit held Monday in Madrid, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, Albares said Russia must (...)
European Union citizens should stockpile enough food and other essential supplies to sustain them for at least 72 hours in the event of a crisis, the EU Commission has said.
In new guidance released Wednesday, the commission stressed the need for (...)
German authorities carried out raids across six states on Wednesday targeting individuals suspected of involvement in Brigade N'Hamedu, a group accused of attempting to overthrow the government of Eritrea.
According to a statement from the Federal (...)
"Do you think you can trust Putin?" German Brig. Gen. Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile.
It's a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no.
As the Trump administration continues to pursue a deal to end the war (...)
Germany has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shuttered in the early phase of Syria's civil war.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reopened the mission during a visit to the Syrian capital, her second trip to the country since (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda (...)
Thousands of protesters in the Serbian capital of Belgrade gathered Friday for a massive anti-government demonstration against President Aleksandar Vucic, following months of unrest over alleged government negligence.
The Students in Blockade (...)
Almost a decade since world powers sealed a historic deal to limit the Iranian nuclear program, this is a crunch moment for Iran and the international community.
The country is now closer than ever to being able to make a nuclear bomb.
And the (...)
Defense ministers from Europe's five largest military nations—France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Poland—met in Paris on Wednesday to discuss a new security framework for Ukraine in response to the US-Russia rapprochement.
French Defence Minister (...)
Authorities in India have arrested a cryptocurrency exchange administrator wanted by the US for allegedly helping cybercriminals launder money and violate sanctions.
Aleksej Besciokov, a Lithuanian citizen and Russian resident, was arrested in the (...)
The EU executive on Wednesday launched a set of proportionate countermeasures on US imports into the EU, targeting a variety of American products, ranging from boats to bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorbikes.
The move comes in response to what the EU (...)
