The right-wing conservative National Coalition Party, known locally as Kokoomus, has swept to victory in the Finnish general elections, winning 48 seats in the 200-seat parliament. The far-right populist Finns…
At least three people died and eight others were injured in three separate shooting incidents in the crime-plagued French city of Marseille overnight Sunday to Monday, police said. This has…
Residents of Paris have voted overwhelmingly to ban for-hire electric scooters from the city’s streets, in what is seen as a victory for road safety campaigners. In a referendum on…
Pope Francis has presided over Palm Sunday Mass, a day after leaving hospital due to bronchitis. In his homily he defended the “abandoned” of the world. “No one can be marginalised,”…
With her biological clock ticking louder and louder, and a partner whose wish for children had already been fulfilled, Kim, a 37-year-old woman from the Netherlands, decided in June 2020 it was…
With her biological clock ticking louder and louder, and a partner whose wish for children had already been fulfilled, Kim, a 37-year-old woman from the Netherlands, decided in June 2020 it was…
Last year, parts of Europe saw drought so severe that supplies of drinking water were limited. A winter with little rainfall was followed by one of the driest summers on…
Finland’s centre-right leader, Petteri Orpo, claimed victory in Sunday’s tightly-fought parliamentary election. His centre-right National Coalition Party (NCP) came out on top at 20.8 per cent, followed by the right-wing…
A woman has been arrested following the killing of a prominent pro-Kremlin military blogger in a St. Petersburg café bomb blast, Interfax news agency has reported. Vladlen Tatarsky died while…
The Russian mercenary group Wagner says it has taken control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut – a claim denied by the Ukrainian General Staff. “In the legal sense, Bakhmut…
