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.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday proposed that Turkey take an active role in initiating peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
At a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Tusk said both Turkey (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tech billionaire Elon Musk have had a contentious exchange with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in a series of X posts on Sunday over the use of Musk's Starlink satellite system in Ukraine.
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The European Commission remained conspicuously silent after Poland doubled down on its refusal to implement the Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was once described as a "historical" legislative achievement to allow member states to manage the (...)
European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to finally bring into force the Entry/Exit System (EES), the bloc's automated registry for short-stay travellers that has been repeatedly delayed over technical problems and lack of preparedness.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war and defend the country from Russia.
The UK, France and other countries will step up their efforts in a "coalition of the willing" and seek to involve (...)
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades beyond the end of World War II, has died at age 113. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.
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Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is facing serious charges and potential prison time after Polish prosecutors charged him over his involvement in attempting to organize presidential elections by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RIYADH — The Council of Ministers reaffirmed Saudi Arabia's commitment to promoting global peace and security and emphasized the importance of dialogue in resolving international crises. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman chaired the (...)
BEIJING — The Saudi U-20 national team clinched qualification for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup after a dramatic 1-0 victory over China in the quarterfinals of the AFC U-20 Championship.
With the match heading toward extra time, Ammar Al-Yahibi (...)
At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by an object zooming through the air in flames.
"I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack," Simon Eriksson, a (...)
Matilda came to King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center's (KSrelief) prosthetic limbs center in Poland sitting in a wheelchair. The eight-year-old Ukrainian girl though devastated had hope in her eyes.
Matilda was sad because the ongoing war (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is "ready and willing" to put UK troops on the ground in Ukraine to help guarantee its security as part of a peace deal.
The UK prime minister said securing a lasting peace in Ukraine was "essential if we are to deter (...)
Pope drama Conclave and immigration epic The Brutalist walked away with some of the biggest prizes at the Bafta film awards on Sunday.
Conclave, made by German director Edward Berger, picked up four awards in total including best film and best (...)
The external borders of the European Union registered more than 120,000 cases of pushback by national authorities against irregular migrants in 2024, according to a new report by a group of nine human rights organizations.
The report, released on (...)
Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski dismissed the idea of a common European army, emphasizing that European nations should focus on strengthening their individual national militaries instead.
In an interview with state-run TVP World on (...)
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 (...)
EU leaders on Monday didn't appear to have coalesced around key options to boost common spending in defence, calling for the European Commission to first explore ways they could increase their own national investments in the sector.
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BRUSSELS — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) participated in the fifth meeting of senior humanitarian officials on Ukraine, held on January 28, 2025, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.
The center was (...)
The European Union gives "full support" to Denmark against Donald Trump's threat to take control of Greenland and stands ready to defend the principles of national sovereignty and territorial integrity as it did when Russia launched the full-scale (...)
Their numbers are dwindling but the voices of the Auschwitz survivors remain powerful.
"We were stripped of all humanity," said Leon Weintraub, 99, the oldest of four who spoke beside the notorious Death Gate at the Birkenau extermination (...)
World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Britain's monarch King Charles, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French (...)
Poland's president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) successfully concluded a volunteer prosthetic limbs project in Rzeszow, Poland, on January 23.
The initiative provided 30 prosthetic limbs to Ukrainian refugees and was carried out from (...)
