Italy delivers first migrants to Albania under new deal
Reuters SHENGJIN, Albania – A ship carrying the first group of migrants to be processed in Albania under a deal with Italy arrived in the port of Shengjin on Wednesday…
EU talks deportation hubs to stem migration
AFP Luxembourg – European countries are to discuss “innovative” ways to increase deportations of irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers on Thursday, including controversial plans to set up dedicated return…
EU Commission chief: Hungary’s Russia, China policies pose security risk
Reuters BRUSSELS – Hungary is putting European security at risk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in an unusually blunt speech blasting Budapest’s relationship with Russia…
Floods in Romania kill at least four people as rain batters central Europe
More rainfall is forecast in the coming days in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, southern Germany and parts of Austria. Reuters At least four people died and thousands of…
US bans European charter flight officials over migrant trips
Reuters WASHINGTON – The U.S. has imposed visa restrictions on senior officials at a European charter flight company for “facilitating irregular migration” through Nicaragua as the Biden administration seeks to…
Telegram founder & billionaire Russian exile Pavel Durov ‘arrested at French airport’ after stepping off private jet
Since leaving Russia in 2014, Durov has been living in self-imposed exile Agency Report THE founder and CEO of Telegram has been arrested at an airport in France, reports say.…
Scotland drug deaths rise, among worst in Europe
AFP Scotland recorded an increase in drug deaths last year, official figures showed Tuesday, as the country continues to have one of the highest rates of such deaths in Europe.…
Far-right Israeli minister sparks outrage by praying at flashpoint mosque
AFP A far-right Israeli minister drew international condemnation Tuesday by praying with thousands of Jews at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in annexed east Jerusalem, defying a ban on Jewish prayer…
Iran dismisses European calls for restraint amid Mideast tensions
Reuters Calls from France, Germany and Britain that Iran should exercise restraint with regards to Israel “lack political logic and contradict principles of international law,” Iran’s foreign ministry said on…
Italy’s abortion divisions sharpen under Meloni’s leadership
Reuters ROME – With Giorgia Meloni, Italy has probably the most openly anti-abortion prime minister in western Europe, but terminating pregnancies in the majority-Catholic country that hosts the Vatican has…