Russians will compete as neutral independent athletes without a national flag or anthem at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee has said, maintaining the same sanctions as the Paris Summer Games last year. The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in October 2023 for recognising regional Olympic councils for Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying the move had violated the Olympic Charter.
The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza. The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable. The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel. list of 3 itemsend of list And it wants to impose sanctions on two ministers as well as settlers in the occupied West Bank.
The 47-year-old anticorruption campaigner, who was serving a 19-year sentence at the time of his death, was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Navalnaya said that before his burial, his allies were able to obtain and securely transfer biological samples of Alexey abroad. They were then sent to two laboratories for testing, she added. These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion: Alexey was killed. More specifically, he was poisoned, Navalnaya said.
A backpack is forgotten on the train. It seems a simple enough problem to resolve, especially in Germany, oft famed for its orderliness and efficiency. But when you're living as a refugee or in exile, the documents the bag contained are not mere pieces of paper to be reissued. They very well may be irreplaceable a displaced person's only means of existing within a coldly bureaucratic society. To lose them can be devastating, turning borders into walls.
Russian attacks killed four people and injured 10 in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram on Monday. Two people were killed and one person was injured as Russian forces launched 449 strikes on 17 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack on Russian-occupied Donetsk, killing two civilians, Russia's state TASS news agency reported, citing local officials.
New data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has found that asylum applications to the 27-nation bloc fell 23 percent during the first six months of 2025 after a significant drop in Syrians seeking asylum in Europe since the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December. Syrians, who had been the largest group of asylum seekers in the past decade, sharply dropped to fourth place in May, the EUAA found.
We cannot close our eyes at what's happening in our country, said the Pride march organisers, who cited police violence and the arrest of protesters. Pride won't take part in creating a semblance of normalcy, they added, noting that this year's Pride march was itself a protest. At the gathering in the centre of the Serbian capital, participants held banners, including one that read Gays against police state!
Fenerbahce have sacked Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, two days after elimination from the Champions League playoffs by Benfica, the Turkish club said in a statement. We have parted ways with Jose Mourinho, who served as head coach of our professional A team since the 2024-2025 season. We thank him for his efforts for our team and wish him success in his future career, Friday's statement said.
Denmark has summoned the United States charge d'affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark's main national broadcaster reported that the government believed that at least three people with connections to Donald Trump's administration have been carrying out covert influence operations aimed at promoting Greenland's secession from Denmark to the United States.
Liam O'Hanna, 27, has been charged with a terror' offence for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag. A member of the Irish rap group Kneecap is due to appear in court, charged with a terror offence for allegedly supporting Hezbollah. Liam O'Hanna, 27, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, will appear at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on Wednesday after he was charged in May for displaying a Hezbollah flag during a London concert in November.
Between August 2023 and August 2024, Australians consumed an estimated 22.2 tonnes of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and MDMA, reflecting a 34 percent increase from the previous year.
