Europe

Taking half within the Eurovision Song Contest is nerve-racking, even when the viewers welcomes you to the stage. For one singer at this 12 months’s contest, it’s going to seemingly be a very anxious expertise. When Eden Golan, 20, performs representing Israel on the second semifinal on Thursday, a good portion of the viewers won’t […] More

Ukrainian drones struck two oil depots and a refinery throughout Russia in a 24-hour interval, together with one deep in Russian territory, officers on either side stated Thursday, as Kyiv presses a marketing campaign aimed toward hampering the nation’s army operations and placing pressure on its most essential trade. Radiy Khabirov, the top of Russia’s […] More

Ukraine’s Parliament handed a invoice on Wednesday that can permit some convicts to serve within the navy in trade for the potential for parole on the finish of their service, a transfer aimed toward replenishing the military’s depleted ranks after greater than two years of warfare. The invoice should nonetheless be signed into legislation by […] More

The ballistic missiles rolled via Red Square, the fighter jets zipped overhead and rows of international dignitaries impassively regarded on. Russia’s annual commemoration of the tip of World War II introduced a standard ceremony on Thursday cherished by tens of millions of Russians, a mirrored image of President Vladimir V. Putin’s broader makes an attempt […] More

Students who oppose the struggle in Gaza started dismantling their protest camp at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland on Wednesday night, after the establishment agreed to divest from three Israeli firms listed by the United Nations for his or her hyperlinks to settlements within the occupied Palestinian territories. Trinity stated that it will transfer to […] More

Fencing is a distinct segment however elementary sport within the Olympics, contested at each Summer Games since 1896. Yet regardless of its genteel status and easy goal — contact an opponent together with your blade earlier than being touched — the game has lengthy been rife with drama and suspicion. Two months earlier than the […] More

Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken vacationers and college students. Earsplitting volumes in as soon as quiet residential neighborhoods lengthy after midnight. When Milan’s authorities embarked years in the past on plans to advertise town as a buzzy vacation spot by constructing on its repute as Italy’s […] More

Luis Rubiales, Spain’s former soccer chief, will stand trial on a depend of sexual assault for grabbing the pinnacle of Jennifer Hermoso, a star participant, and forcibly kissing her on the mouth on the Women’s World Cup medal ceremony in August. The resolution on Wednesday night by Spain’s National Court got here after a judge […] More

Britain’s diplomatic feud with Russia escalated on Wednesday after the British authorities introduced it could expel a senior Russian diplomat who officers declare is an “undeclared” army intelligence officer, and likewise shut down a number of Russian diplomatic services within the nation. The authorities accused Russia’s overseas intelligence service, the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., […] More

Before a crowd thronging the waterfront and hilltops of this historic port metropolis of Marseille, the Olympic flame arrived in France on Wednesday, starting a 79-day relay throughout the nation and its territories that can culminate in Paris with the beginning of the Olympic Games on July 26. In an elaborate ceremony attended by President […] More

China and Serbia on Wednesday proclaimed an “ironclad friendship” throughout a go to to Belgrade by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, underlining the shut political and financial ties between two international locations that share a wariness of the United States. Mr. Xi arrived in Serbia late Tuesday — the twenty fifth anniversary of a mistaken […] More

A big Russian missile and drone assault brought on critical harm to a number of energy vegetation throughout Ukraine early Wednesday, Ukrainian officers stated. It was Russia’s fifth assault on vitality amenities prior to now month and a half, a part of a broader marketing campaign aimed toward chopping off electrical energy to swaths of […] More