Europe

Slovakia’s chief was attacked Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, was shot 5 occasions and critically wounded yesterday, essentially the most critical assault on a European chief in a long time. Officials mentioned the assault appeared to have been an assassination try and was politically motivated. The police mentioned a suspect had been detained. Fico was […] More

Robert Fico, 59, has performed a pivotal position in Slovakian politics within the years because it gained independence in 1993 and has served as prime minister longer than another chief. The nation gained independence after the so-called Velvet Revolution, a collection of well-liked and nonviolent protests in 1989 towards the Communist Party in what was […] More

A gunman shot Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, who is understood for defying his fellow leaders within the European Union, a number of occasions at shut vary on Wednesday, in probably the most critical assault on a European chief in a long time. Mr. Fico was shot after rising from the House of Culture […] More

If France is a rustic of illusions — an exquisite and seductive land providing lots of life’s best pleasures that sits atop and conceals a crime-ridden, drug-plagued world of violence — then the previous week provided a impolite awakening to this twin actuality. The Olympic flame arrived on French soil final week within the historical […] More

At midday on Tuesday, some church bells and carillons within the Netherlands didn’t sound like they normally do. Rather than solemnly tolling, they performed the melody of “Europapa,” the track that was speculated to be the Dutch entry within the Eurovision Song Contest last this previous Saturday. Dutch radio stations are additionally frequently enjoying the […] More

After surging throughout the border final week, Russia’s military seems to be advancing extra slowly in northeastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officers and army analysts mentioned on Wednesday, with the 2 sides engaged in fierce fight round villages about 5 miles from the border. In an indication of the priority that Russia’s northeastern offensive is inflicting in […] More

The phrase “victory” is all over the place in Moscow as of late. It is being projected from gargantuan LED screens alongside main intersections and highways and written on pink flags whipping within the wind. It’s distinguished at an exhibit of Western weapons destroyed on Ukrainian battlefields and lugged again to Moscow as conflict trophies […] More

Just 18 months in the past, White House and Pentagon officers debated whether or not Russia’s forces in Ukraine would possibly collapse and be pushed overseas completely. Now, after months of sluggish Russian floor advances and technological leaps in countering American-provided arms, the Biden administration is more and more involved that President Vladimir V. Putin […] More

Michael Cohen described a hush-money deal Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, returned to the stand yesterday to face legal professionals for the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace, in addition to Donald Trump’s authorized staff, within the case in opposition to the previous president. Cohen instructed jurors that he obtained month-to-month checks — most bearing […] More

King Charles III on Tuesday unveiled the primary official painted portrait of himself since his coronation simply over a yr in the past — a putting oil portray through which he stares head-on in opposition to a backdrop of mottled purple, pink and fuchsia hues. The portray, by the famend portrait artist Jonathan Yeo, was […] More

Jane Birkin pairing her beaded costume with a basket. Madonna in a Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bra and a garter set. Kristen Stewart barefoot in Chanel chain mail. Spike Lee in a sunset-inspired swimsuit. The Cannes Film Festival, with its sheer preponderance of purple carpets and boardwalk picture ops, its blockbusters and artwork home flicks, has […] More

The Parliament of Georgia gave closing approval on Tuesday to a contentious invoice that has prompted a sequence of tense protests within the capital, Tbilisi, spurred by fears that the laws may push the nation again into the Kremlin’s orbit. President Salome Zourabichvili has promised to veto the invoice. But Georgian Dream, the governing party […] More