Twenty-four hours in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, where life goes on despite the war
7.15am: At the Barabashovo market, hit by a drone The Barabashovo market in Kharkiv, hit by a Russian drone strike overnight February 5 – 6, 2025. © David Gormezano, FRANCE…
France’s parliament votes to limit use of man-made ‘forever chemicals’
France‘s parliament on Thursday voted to limit the production and sale of some items containing polluting and health-threatening “forever chemicals” including cosmetics, most clothing and ski wax in the Alpine…
Russia agrees to resume dialogue with US ‘on all parametres’ of Ukraine war
The Kremlin said it “absolutely” agreed with the US administration after President Donald Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to “move fast” to end the conflict. Trump has made repeated diplomatic…
French pension deficit set to more than double in a decade – despite reform
France’s pensions system will steadily sink deeper in the red in the coming decades despite a 2023 overhaul to keep it afloat, adding nearly half a trillion euros to the…
Why Europe’s leadership is skeptical of negotiating with Putin
“About us, without us”. Hearing this slogan, popularised across what was then Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1938 Munich agreement, it’s not hard to see why some commentators are…
Baltic region prepares for war as Russia and US debate Ukraine’s fate
As Russia and the US held talks in Saudi Arabia this week over the future of the conflict in Ukraine, countries on the Baltic Sea released a flurry of intelligence…
Zelensky accuses Trump of falling for Russian ‘disinformation’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Donald Trump of succumbing to Russian “disinformation”, deepening a rift between Kyiv and the new US administration. Speaking to reporters at a press…
France’s Senate backs bill to ban Muslim headscarf in sport competitions
France‘s right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and…
Live: ‘You should never have started it’, Trump tells Zelensky of Russia’s invasion
Home Europe Live Issued on: 19/02/2025 – 06:55Modified: 19/02/2025 – 07:24 1 min US President Donald Trump meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York, September 27, 2024. © Julia…
Former US deputy sheriff turned-Russia-propagandist on major disinformation spree in Germany
From a fabricated sex scandal to a fake museum heist, disinformation aimed at influencing Germany‘s high-stakes election is originating from dozens of AI-generated German sites apparently linked to a US…