Europe

Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, resigned on Monday within the newest setback for his Scottish National Party, which has been engulfed in a slow-burn disaster over a funding scandal that erupted after its widespread chief Nicola Sturgeon stepped down final 12 months. Mr. Yousaf’s departure had appeared more and more inevitable after he gambled final […] More

A 12 months and a half after police and intelligence officers in Germany uncovered a plot to overthrow the nation’s authorities and exchange its chancellor, the primary of three trials within the sprawling case is about to start on Monday in Stuttgart. Most of the would-be insurrectionists have been arrested in December 2022, when closely […] More

The Ukrainian marine infantryman endured 9 months of bodily and psychological torture as a Russian prisoner of struggle, however was allotted solely three months of relaxation and rehabilitation earlier than being ordered again to his unit. The infantryman, who requested to be recognized solely by his name signal, Smiley, returned to responsibility willingly. But it […] More

Ukrainian officers have taken a number of steps in latest weeks to swell the ranks of a military depleted by greater than two years of grueling fight. The authorities handed a brand new mobilization invoice aimed toward growing troop numbers and has stepped up border patrols to catch draft dodgers. Now, officers are concentrating on […] More

A terrorist assault of 2015 that left her metropolis indignant and heartbroken persuaded Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to marketing campaign for the Olympic Games. “I mentioned to myself, ‘We have to do one thing that’s unifying,’” she mentioned in an interview this month, remembering the horrifying afternoon when masked gunmen charged into the workplaces of […] More

One of the lads, a younger Briton identified for his hawkish views on China, labored as an aide to a outstanding member of the British Parliament. Another, a German citizen of Chinese descent, was an assistant to a member of the European Parliament representing Germany’s far proper. While from completely different international locations and seemingly […] More

There’s a locked door on the eastbound platform of the Chancery Lane station of the London Underground. The door is unassuming, sturdy and white. Behind it’s a vast set of stairs resulting in a roughly mile-long maze of tunnels constructed within the Forties that have been first meant to function a World War II shelter […] More

Things began with a brawl and have scarcely gotten higher from there. Over the course of the previous 5 months or so, there have been a string of arrests; allegations of drug trafficking and cash laundering; darkish whispers of unlawful knowledge breaches; imprecise accusations of intimidation; and several other charged invectives about monetary impropriety, dishonesty […] More

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is about to institute a uncommon tax enhance on firms and excessive earners, a transfer that displays each the burgeoning prices of his struggle in Ukraine and the agency management he has over the Russian elite as he embarks on a fifth time period in workplace. Financial technocrats in […] More

Russia attacked railway services in three totally different areas throughout Ukraine on Thursday night time and Friday morning, because the Russian protection minister vowed to step up strikes aimed toward slowing the circulation of critically wanted American weapons and gear to the entrance. At least six civilians have been killed and 31 others wounded within […] More

“The flame is coming residence,” the director of the Paris Olympics, Tony Estanguet, advised a crowd of reporters and critics gathered within the Louvre’s inside sculpture backyard on Tuesday. The solar streamed by the vaulted glass roof, lighting up a bronze sculpture of a discus thrower put in beneath a lapis blue arch emblazoned with […] More

The previous week has seen a rising wave of protest encampments and different demonstrations on college campuses throughout the United States, lots of which have been met by mass arrests and different forceful police actions, in addition to intense media scrutiny. And the demonstrations proceed to unfold. But campus protests abroad have been sporadic and […] More