Turkey plans to reopen the long-shuttered Halki seminary as a university, reviving an institution central to Orthodox Christianity and addressing a longstanding demand from the US and the European Union.

“It is idiotic” to immediately pay back post-pandemic loans, French President Emmanuel Macron says on visit to Athens.

Four years after the Ukrainian town experienced some of the war’s worst atrocities, a 21-year-old planted bombs outside his own apartment building On a recent evening in March, Bohdan Tymchenko, a quiet and unassuming man from Bucha, logged on to his computer to play the popular video game World of Tanks. Less than two weeks later, he planted two bombs outside his flat. What unfolded in the intervening days offers a stark glimpse into a growing pattern: Ukrainians drawn in online by Russian intelligence services, promised money or coerced into carrying out sabotage attacks against their own country. Continue reading...

Russia violated its self-declared Easter ceasefire 2,299 times over 15 hours, Ukraine said, as attacks across multiple oblasts killed four civilians and injured 35 others.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that during the final week of winter, Russia launched over 1,720 attack drones, nearly 1,300 guided aerial bombs, and more than 100 missiles of various types against ...

Russia said at recent talks in Geneva it would accept the U.S. proposal for Ukraine's post-war security guarantees, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Saturday.

The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner against mercury pollution.

In invoking what he claimed were virtually unlimited powers to impose tariffs under a 1977 emergency law, US President Donald Trump took unprecedented action. Now, the Supreme Court has determined that it was illegal, too.

The attack comes during a winter freeze and despite efforts by President Trump and others to get the two countries to negotiate a truce.

US health department’s new food pyramid places red meat and cheese high in saturated fats over plant-based proteins The new food pyramid rolled out in US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) places animal-based proteins, including cheese and red meats high in saturated fats, above plant-based proteins, which has raised alarm bells among health and environmental experts. This rejiggered food pyramid is in line with Kennedy’s previous signals that he will recommend increasing saturated fat in US diets as part of the “Make America healthy again” movement. Continue reading...

«Καμία εκφοβιστική πρακτική και καμία απειλή δεν θα μας επηρεάσει, ούτε στην Ουκρανία, ούτε στη Γροιλανδία, ούτε οπουδήποτε αλλού στον κόσμο»

Ukraine is ready to hold elections in the next 60 to 90 days if its allies can guarantee security for the vote, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, following criticism from his American counter...

Οι εμπλεκόμενοι αναμένεται να βρεθούν αντιμέτωποι με βαριές κατηγορίες σε βαθμό κακουργήματος, μεταξύ των οποίων και η συμμετοχή σε εγκληματική οργάνωση.

Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv European leaders rallied behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday night amid hopes they might finally achieve a breakthrough to allow Ukraine access to billions of pounds of frozen Russian assets. Despite vociferous support for the Ukrainian president, who has come under heavy pressure from Donald Trump to cede territory in order to bring the war to a speedy end, there was still no agreement on the thorny question of turning immobilised assets into a loan for Kyiv. Continue reading...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.

Πολλοί από τους 15 έχουν κατηγορηθεί ή και εκτίσει ποινές φυλάκισης για βομβιστικές επιθέσεις, διακίνηση ναρκωτικών, ζωοκλοπές και εκβιάσεις, ενώ ένας από αυτούς αποφυλακίστηκε πριν από έξι μήνες έχοντας καταδικαστεί για ανθρωποκτονία.

Legal fightback comes as Trump administration has imposed increasingly draconian rules on media outlets

The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.

Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage Some of the first homes in the UK designed to meet new building standards put less pressure on the electricity grid than expected, a study has found. The all-electric properties in Handsworth, Birmingham, have heat pumps, which use electricity to provide heat rather than oil or gas. Continue reading...

President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

Fighting in Ukraine will grind on in 2026. Vladimir Putin will continue to throw away Russian lives pointlessly, but sooner or later a reckoning is coming

Το Ιδρυμα Μπιλ και Μελίντα Γκέιτς θα διαθέσει τουλάχιστον 1,4 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια τα επόμενα τέσσερα χρόνια, με στόχο να βοηθήσει αγρότες στην υποσαχάρια Αφρική και την Ασία να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση σε τεχνολογίες που τους επιτρέπουν να προσαρμοστούν στα ολοένα πιο ακραία καιρικά φαινόμενα, δήλωσε στο Reuters ο διευθύνων σύμβουλος του οργανισμού, Μαρκ Σούζμαν.

Ireland’s president-elect Catherine Connolly caught the anti-establishment tide

Jeffrey Tucker, who elevated Covid contrarians now working for the health secretary, is building support for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.

In a new book, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims wrote a lurid account of being sexually abused by Prince Andrew, a younger brother of King Charles III.

Laughter is now a government-regulated product.

Some Israeli officials believe the military assault on Gaza City will deliver a decisive blow to the group, which continues to stage ambushes and guerrilla attacks.

An American version of the popular app will be partially owned by a consortium of Trump-allied investors, people familiar with the deal said, sidestepping a legally mandated ban the president has repe...

Von der Leyen, who began her second five-year term last year, plans to focus on strengthening Europe’s defense posture and boosting economic competitiveness, especially in response to Russia’s war aga...

Ερευνες που αποτελούν μήνυμα πλήρους απαξίωσης του τουρκολιβυκού μνημονίου, και των ισχυρισμών περί δικαιοδοσίας της Λιβύης, διεξάγει η Αίγυπτος σε θαλάσσιες περιοχές που βρίσκονται στα δυτικά σύνορά της.