Germany: Far-right AfD wins first city mayoral election
Tim Lochner saw off the CDU candidate to become the far-right Alternative for Germany's first city mayor. Under the German mayoral...
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Dec 18, 2023
North Korea flouts ban, fires ballistic missile, says Seoul
South Korea's military says Pyongyang fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan late Sunday night. North Korea, a...
Dec 17, 2023
Head of animal food bank in Antwerp aims to bring community closer with social initiatives
The Koffie met Koekskes Animal Food Bank is looking for volunteers and hopes to see donations rise as the holidays draw closer. Alexander...
Dec 17, 2023
As electoral violence looms, Belgian defence chief visits Congo to discuss cooperation
Electoral violence in Congo threatens to derail next Wednesday's parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The...
Dec 15, 2023
Ukraine gets historic EU green-light after Orban drops veto
In a dramatic twist, Ukraine and Moldova got the OK to start EU membership talks after days of hardballing from Hungary. Viktor Orban,...
Dec 15, 2023
German lawmakers approve supplementary budget for 2023
It comes after the Bundestag approved a proposal by the governing coalition to suspend borrowing rules, known as the debt brake, for the...
Dec 15, 2023
Russia says it has 'no desire' to locate Navalny
Aides of the prominent Kremlin critic have said he was moved from a penal colony near Moscow and has not been seen by his lawyers for 11...
Dec 15, 2023
Ukraine updates: EU approves accession talks, rejects funds
EU leaders agreed to open accession talks with Ukraine at the bloc's final summit of the year, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban...
Dec 15, 2023
Migrant boat capsizes in English Channel, 1 dead
The inflatable dinghy carrying over 60 people got into trouble off the coast of northern France. One person drowned and another is...
Dec 15, 2023
Iran: Gunmen kill several officers in police station attack
State television has reported that suspected militants from a separatist group attacked a police station in Sistan-Baluchistan province,...
Dec 15, 2023
Haiti: MSF shuts clinic after patient shot dead
Gunmen pulled out a patient from an MSF ambulance and shot him dead in the capital, Port-au-Prince. MSF announced the indefinite closure...
Dec 15, 2023
Guyana, Venezuela agree not to escalate conflict
Venezuela and Guyana agreed not to use force to settle a border dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region. The territorial dispute...
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