Europe

France has come under fire by several states at the United Nations over racism and police violence, including against demonstrators during mass rallies over a controversial pension reform bill that finally became law. On Monday, the French government was accused of conducting attacks on migrants, racial profiling and religious intolerance during …

Russia’s air defenses shot down three Ukrainian military aircraft over the past day, the defense ministry said on Tuesday, as Moscow continues its large-scale missile barrage on Ukraine. Defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: “Air defense capabilities destroyed three Ukrainian Air Force planes. Two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters were shot down …

Russia on Tuesday summoned the Polish embassy’s charge d’affaires after Warsaw closed a school run by the Russian embassy, domestic news agencies reported. Poland and Russia have historically had tense relations, which have plummeted even further since the Ukraine offensive. The RIA Novosti news agency published a video of diplomat …

The British government will implement a pay offer covering more than a million National Health Service staff, after trade unions representing a majority of those involved in a dispute over wage increases voted to accept the deal on Tuesday. The offer, covering nurses, paramedics, midwives and other workers in England, …

Law enforcement agencies around the world seized an online marketplace and arrested nearly 300 people allegedly involved in buying and selling drugs, European Union law enforcement agency Europol said Tuesday. The worldwide operation targeting the “Monopoly Market,” coordinated by Europol, is the latest major takedown of sales platforms for drugs …

Violent clashes erupted across the country as part of continuing demonstrations against controversial pension reforms. Almost 300 protesters were arrested during massive French Labor Day demonstrations against controversial pension reforms on Monday. More than 100 police officers were injured during the unrest, according to local authorities. French Interior Minister Gerald …

Russia has promised a harsh response to Poland’s “illegal seizure” of an embassy school in the capital Warsaw. Polish media reported that the country’s police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school in Warsaw on Saturday morning. According to Press TV, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement later …

Thousands of protesters, including a large group of migrants, have marched in Paris and other French cities, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte. During Saturday protest In the French capital, Paris, demonstrators held a banner reading, “No to the [Interior Minister …

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training. The measure will be approved at next week’s cabinet meeting and will create 45,000 bilingual vocational training places, 824 new training centers, and more than 1,500 classrooms for applied technology …

Russia has promised a harsh response to Poland’s “illegal seizure” of an embassy school in the capital Warsaw. Polish media reported that the country’s police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school in Warsaw on Saturday morning. Polish authorities had burst onto the embassy school’s grounds with the aim …

A drone strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky before it was extinguished, the city’s Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday. Experts examined the site and “it became clear that only one drone …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the latest attempts by the United States and its Western allies to isolate Moscow have so far been a complete failure. Addressing the online Global Conference on Multipolarity on Saturday, Lavrov said that efforts by Washington and its allies “to reverse the course of …

A drone strike has led to a massive fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, its governor Mikhail Razvozhaev has said. The fire was still burning, but it had been contained as firefighters reached the site, and no one was injured, Razvozhaev said on Saturday. …

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin slams the “economic aggression” that is being practiced by the “collective West” against the country, pledging that Moscow will take “proactive” action against the West’s hostile economic campaign. Putin delivered the remarks on Friday, addressing Russia’s Council of Legislators in St. Petersburg on Friday, Russia Today …

Russia has criticized a recent nuclear agreement between the United States and South Korea, warning that the new deal would escalate the existing tensions in the region and destabilize the world. “We call on the United States and its allies, who, in pursuit of decisive military superiority, are implementing a …

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the only way to end the war in Ukraine is negotiation between Kiev and Moscow. According to a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday, “Xi Jinping had a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,” during which he said “talks …

US-led NATO allies and partners have provided Ukraine with 1,550 armored vehicles and 230 tanks, chief of the US-led military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg has claimed. Since the start of the war in February last year “more than 98 percent of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine have been delivered,” Stoltenberg …

Russia says missing the opportunity to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is a “huge mistake,” noting the parties that destroyed the multilateral agreement bear responsibility to bring it back to life. Speaking to reporters after chairing a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister …

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced he would like to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss a potential solution to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The president is on an official trip to Spain where he participated in a business forum held in …

Ten Norwegian diplomats in Moscow were ordered to leave Russia Wednesday, in what Oslo said was “an act of revenge” for its move this month to expel 15 Russian diplomatic staff for alleged spying. Norway’s ambassador to Moscow was informed that ” 10 of our diplomats at the embassy in …