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Backing Ukraine is causing living costs to soar, the bloc’s chief Jens Stoltenberg admitted Europeans are about to face numerous hardships due to Western support for Kyiv, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Welt an Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. Despite this, he insisted that the members of the US-led …

The United States and NATO countries have started to speedily restock their own arsenals after efforts to supply Ukraine with arms and ammunition to fight Russia exhausted their own stocks. The New York Times reported on Saturday that after nine months passing since the Ukraine war kicked off, the West’s …

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit of French-speaking nations in Tunisia, Macron was asked to …

Drug-resistant ailments kill 35,000 people a year in Europe, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which called for the responsible use of antibiotics and antivirals to help fight the rising threat. The health impact of the phenomenon is comparable to that of influenza, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS …

Russia warns the West against attempts to seize its frozen international reserves to be used as compensation for damage and loss in Ukraine, promising to do “everything possible” to stop the “plundering” of its assets. The West froze around half – or more than $300 billion – of Russia’s international …

The Pentagon has reportedly accelerated the delivery of more accurate bombs to Europe The US has brought forward delivery of upgraded B61-12 air-dropped unguided nuclear bombs to NATO bases in Europe, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing a US diplomatic cable and two people familiar with the matter. According to the …

Iran has announced tit-for-tat sanctions against institutions and individuals in the European Union (EU) due to their deliberate actions in support of terrorism and terrorist groups. In a statement released on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry once again strongly rejected and condemned the EU’s October 17 sanctions targeting Iranian individuals and …

The Tunisian coastguard has recovered 11 bodies thought to be of irregular migrants lost at sea while attempting to reach Europe, a spokesman said Friday. The partly decomposed bodies were found on Thursday and Friday in Mediterranean waters off the central province of Mahdia, National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli …

Kiev is already making a substantial contribution to the “security of the free world,” Aleksey Reznikov claimed Ukraine is a de facto member of the NATO alliance, despite not having officially joined the US-led military bloc, Kiev’s Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov has claimed. He made the statement in a tweet …

The entire continent wonders how it will get through the season, Turkey’s president said European countries are about to face significant difficulties this winter amid limited deliveries of Russian natural gas, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Speaking at the TUGVA youth forum, Türkiye’s leader noted that the …

The German Army (Bundeswehr) has enough ammunition for only one or two days of warfare, the German edition of the news website Business Insider (BI) reported on Saturday, citing defense industry and parliamentary sources. According to BI, Berlin is significantly lagging behind the NATO requirement of maintaining stocks for at …

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen secured a second six-year term in office on Sunday by winning a clear majority of votes in an election to avoid a runoff, according to projections based on a partial vote count. The 78-year-old former leader of the Greens has garnered broad popularity by …

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday ordering his country’s authorities to take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine and make it a “federal property”. The biggest nuclear plant in Europe is controlled by Russian troops since early March but continues to be operated …

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that the alliance must not be dragged into a war with Russia Germany will do everything to avoid NATO becoming a direct party in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said. Her remarks came after Kiev requested to become an official member of …

Russia said on Thursday that leaks spewing gas into the Baltic Sea from pipelines to Germany appeared to be the result of state-sponsored “terrorism”, as an EU official said the incident had fundamentally changed the nature of the conflict in Ukraine. The European Union is investigating the cause of the …

UKRAINE’S ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION JOINS RUSSIA ANNEXATION VOTES The Russian-held Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, will join three other occupied territories in holding votes on becoming part of Russia, a pro-Moscow official said Tuesday. “Today I signed an order on the holding of a referendum on …

Germany was pressing on Monday to secure liquefied natural gas contracts with Gulf producers and other European states outlined measures to conserve energy, with Russian flows running at severely reduced levels as winter approaches. Berlin said it aimed to sign LNG contracts in the United Arab Emirates to supply terminals …

Washington and its allies are discussing whether to provide fighter jets to Kyiv in the future, the newspaper reported The US and its allies are in talks over whether to send Ukraine more advanced weapons in the future, including fighter aircraft, a US defense official has said, according to the …

Iran has slammed as “wrong” and “ill-considered” the joint statement issued by Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Speaking at a weekly presser on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said …

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 12, Tunisia’s ministry of interior said on Monday. A total of 37 migrants, all of the Tunisian nationality, were involved in this attempt to illegally reach the Italian coast from the region of Sfax (central-east), according …