World / Europe

Bosnian Serb opposition calls election 'rigged', stages protest 06 Oct 2022 - 10:01 pm

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia: Thousands of people on Thursday protested in Banja Luka over what they said was a 'rigged' election in favour of...

France's Macron is a friend, British PM Liz Truss decides 06 Oct 2022 - 08:30 pm

Prague: French President Emmanuel Macron is a friend of Britain, Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Thursday, having declared earlier this year while...

UK govt to work closely with banks on mortgages after rates jump 06 Oct 2022 - 06:30 pm

LONDON: British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng told banks on Thursday his department would work closely with the financial sector on mortgage lending, the...

Ukraine's president nominates new central bank chief 06 Oct 2022 - 06:02 pm

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked parliament to approve banker Andriy Pyshnyi, who has helped advise the government on implementing sanctions against Russia,...

Energy savings drive directs EU parliament to turn down heat 06 Oct 2022 - 02:32 pm

BRUSSELS: The European Parliament will turn off heating in its buildings for three days per week and adjust its thermostats for other days...

French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature 06 Oct 2022 - 02:31 pm

Stockholm: French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the...

Spain: Train crash driver says he couldn´t avert accident 06 Oct 2022 - 02:04 pm

Madrid: The driver of a train that crashed in Spain in 2013, killing 80 passengers and injuring 145 others, told a court Thursday...

Ukraine 2023 early grain harvest could drop by at least 50%: Producer 06 Oct 2022 - 01:52 pm

KYIV: Ukraine's winter grain sowing area for the 2023 harvest will unlikely to exceed 2 million hectares and the harvest could fall by...

Russian missile strike kills woman, destroys apartment block in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia 06 Oct 2022 - 12:23 pm

KYIV: A Russian rocket strike destroyed a five-storey apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least one woman and...

US believes Ukrainians behind killing of Dugina in Russia: NYT says 06 Oct 2022 - 10:34 am

London: United States intelligence agencies believe parts of the Ukrainian government approved a car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Darya...

At least 16 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek island Lesbos 06 Oct 2022 - 09:50 am

Athens: At least 16 migrant women died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos in the central Aegean Sea early...

Germany, Spain stick to plan to build new gas pipeline as leaders meet 05 Oct 2022 - 08:56 pm

LA CORUNA: Germany and Spain are sticking to their plan to build a new gas pipeline across the Pyrenees in defiance of French...

France taps strategic fuel reserves as refinery strike grinds on 05 Oct 2022 - 08:56 pm

PARIS: France has tapped its strategic fuel reserves to resupply petrol stations that have run dry, the government said on Wednesday, amid strikes...

Serbia's police prevent 200 migrants from entering Hungary, seize money, weapons 05 Oct 2022 - 08:38 pm

Belgrade: Serbian police prevented 200 migrants from crossing into the country's northern neighbour Hungary and seized money and weapons, the interior ministry said...

Russian TV protester confirms she has gone on the run 05 Oct 2022 - 08:19 pm

Moscow: Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for staging an on-air protest against Russia’s war in Ukraine, confirmed she had escaped house arrest...

Nobel prize goes to pioneers of molecule-building "click chemistry" 05 Oct 2022 - 02:06 pm

Stockholm: Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022NobelPrize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecular building...

Putin signs annexation of Ukrainian regions as losses mount 05 Oct 2022 - 11:55 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws formally absorbing four Ukrainian regions into Russia, even as its military is struggling to hang on...

Japan reopens embassy in Ukraine after 7-month closure 05 Oct 2022 - 11:19 am

Japan reopened its embassy in Kyiv todayfollowing a seven-month closure due to Russia's warinUkraine, the Foreign Ministry said, as the security situation has...