Finland announced Tuesday that it is preparing to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, citing changing security dynamics in the region.
President Alexander Stubb said the decision follows a comprehensive assessment (...)
Three US soldiers were found dead in Lithuania after their armored recovery vehicle was retrieved from a swamp, while a search continues for a fourth missing soldier, the US Army Europe and Africa announced Monday.
The soldiers, part of the 1st (...)
Lithuanian authorities have recovered the armored vehicle belonging to four missing US soldiers who disappeared during a routine training exercise last week, the country's defense minister confirmed on Monday.
"Six days of hard work have yielded (...)
The Lithuanian army says it is searching for four US soldiers missing for two days during drills in the Baltic state amid reports they had died.
The four soldiers and their tracked vehicle had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon near the border with (...)
JEDDAH — The Saudi Council of Ministers denounced the resumption of Israeli occupation forces' aggression on the Gaza Strip. Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman chaired the Cabinet session in Jeddah on Tuesday.
In a statement to the (...)
Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.
Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that (...)
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia officially disconnected from a shared energy system with Russia and Belarus on Saturday.
The BRELL (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) system was established after the Soviet Union's dissolution to ensure a (...)
Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus — and lean in more with their (...)
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election.
"It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."
For three (...)
Police in Finland say the crew of a Russia-linked tanker suspected of damaging a power cable under the Baltic Sea have been detained indefinitely.
The Eagle S crew consists of 24 people with Finland's Central Criminal Police imposing movement (...)
Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in November.
Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection (...)
A delegation from the European Parliament has visited Georgia and marched with pro-EU protesters with demonstrations against the government's decision to suspend accession talks now in a second week.
The six MEPs also met with Georgia's pro-Western (...)
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk inspected military fortifications along the country's eastern border with Russia's Kaliningrad region on Saturday, describing the initiative as "an investment in peace."
The visit comes ahead of Poland assuming (...)
Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents.
The cables — one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany — (...)
At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday.
The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house (...)
Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible Russian interference with global undersea infrastructure.
A communications cable between (...)
A series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada, Polish prosecutors say.
Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska revealed late last month that four people had been (...)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday urged China to cease its support for Russia in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, warning that continued backing would harm Beijing's interests and reputation.
Speaking in Oslo, Stoltenberg called on (...)
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico's first woman president in a historic landslide win.
Mexico's official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the (...)
The Council of Europe agreed on a treaty on artificial intelligence (AI) on Friday, claiming it is the first binding international treaty on the technology.
The treaty sets out a legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of AI systems and (...)
Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all approved by the Kremlin.
But when election officials said results gave him more than 87% of the vote, he said Russia's (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not "ruled out" in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia's full-scale invasion grinds into a (...)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will soon put forward a common strategy for the EU's defense industry, designed to strengthen military production and arms supply.
Von der Leyen, who has just announced her intention to run for a (...)
Donald Trump's suggestion the US would not protect NATO allies failing to spend enough on defense "undermines all of our security", the Western military alliance's chief has said.
Jens Stoltenberg also suggested it put US and European troops at (...)
Vladimir Putin has told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Washington should recognize Moscow's interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks.
The Russian president also said he believes a deal can be reached to release US reporter Evan (...)
