Europe

Ivan Korcok, a 60-year-old pro-Western former foreign minister, and Peter Pellegrini, 48, a Ukraine-sceptic backed by the ruling populists, are vying to replace the outgoing liberal President Zuzana Caputova. They...

Whatever the exact territorial outcome of the war in Ukraine, the political outcome is already clear – Russia has lost its gambit to create a vassal state and buffer zone...

Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Israeli Ambassador Yacov Livne over his comments on the deadly Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen, including one...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have put out a “tentative timeline” for getting commercial shipping in and out of Baltimore by the end of the month, but a full...

German investigators seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills worth over $103 million. The bills were traced back to Turkey and were intended for transport to the United States. Tips from U.S....

A former advisor to President Emmanuel Macron has warned that if France continues down the same path with the green agenda, the country will likely face a “social revolt” far...

Just when you get rid of one cough, another emerges in its place.  While the the Covid-19 pandemic officially ended last year, cases of pertussis — or whooping cough, as...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at NATO’s 75th anniversary, the Biden-Netanyahu phone call over the Israel-Hamas war, and U.S.-China trade ties. Welcome back to World Brief, where...

The 42-year-old was the main defendant among four accused of helping Islamist militant Cherif Chekatt, who shot and stabbed shoppers at the market and was killed by police after a...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over two years ago, the West has already made serious strides to wean itself off reliance on Russian energy exports such as oil and...