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Turkey has increased its base interest rates by a whopping 6.5%, the clearest indication yet that the unconventional economic policy dubbed "Erdonomics" might be history now in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's new government.

It was a long time coming, but a shift back to normality after the years-long Covid pandemic is reshaping the list of the most liveable cities in the world....

The oldest known cave engravings in France, and possibly Europe, have been discovered in the Loire Valley, with researchers uncovering designs dating back at least 57,000 years to the age of Neanderthals.

Electric flying taxis could be operating in French capital by next summer

The President of Ukraine has signed a law banning the import of books from Russia, Belarus and the occupied Ukrainian territories. The law was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine last year....

Hungary broke EU law by forcing asylum seekers to present themselves at its embassies in Serbia or Ukraine, the EU’s top court ruled on Thursday (22 June).

One said: “I don’t see any benefit from it all”, another added: “We haven’t started Brexit yet, when’s it going to start?”

Stockholm wants to build a temporary arena in order to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports.The temporary arena ...

Electric scooters will only be allowed to be used from the age of 14 with a cycling or any other category license. Scooters will also require registration, according to amendments to the Road Tra...

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought a sobering realization that, even 30 years after the fall...

Over the course of several months, he had been bamboozling his thousands of subscribers on Douyin (China's version of TikTok) with supposedly real-time reports from Ukraine....

The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Chonhar Bridge last night, presumably with Storm Shadow missiles....

WASHINGTON—Last week, members of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Chairman Representative Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ranking Member Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09), Commissioners Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17), and Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-09) sent a letter...

Four of the injured are in a critical state after the blast in the historic Latin Quarter, police say.

Ukraine’s SBU security service has exposed a retired Ukrainian pilot who collected intelligence on Ukrainian Armed Forces airfields and the personal data of military pilots for Russia, the agency reported on June 20.

Moldova has fully met three of the European Commission's nine recommendations and has made "good progress" in two other areas, says a report to be presented to European ambassadors on 21 June and foreign ministers from member countries next week in Stockholm....

A defense council meeting held at the Elysée Palace examined the possibility of Kiev joining the Atlantic Alliance, which had so far been ruled out by Paris, Berlin and Washington, but was supported by Central European countries such as Poland and the Baltic states. This French overture would be designed to increase pressure on...

Finland will not give any development aid to governments and countries that support Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to the programme of Finland’s new right-wing government, Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio told YLE on Monday.

At the beginning of the month, a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war will be transferred from Russia to Hungary - according to Ukrainian Foreign Office spokesman Nikolenko, Ukraine will not be informed about this. Now he accuses the EU country of holding the eleven Ukrainians incommunicado. Hungary denies....

‘I am proud of Estonia,’ says PM Kaja Kallas.

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