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Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut was sentenced to eight years of hard labour in a penal colony on Wednesday by a court in Minsk. He has been in pre-trial detention since March 2021. The Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent was convicted on charges of endangering national security through his anti-government reporting. Poland's press is shaken.

Denmark, Finland and New Zealand occupy top slots in the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published by NGO Transparency International. Somalia, Syria and South Sudan were ranked as the most apparently corrupt countries, while Turkey and Hungary dropped several notches. The index is compiled with the help of expert assessments.

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia on Friday morning (10 February) as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east.

Belarus on Friday (10 February) slammed a decision by Poland to close a border checkpoint between the two countries as "catastrophic", saying it could lead to a "collapse" on both sides of the border.

In the past weeks, Big Tech companies have slashed their staff in preparation for an economic recession. What do these mass layoffs mean for the tech sector? Are we looking at structural adjustments or temporary fluctuations? And what does this...

EU leaders backed the European Commission's green industrial plan in response to the US Inflation Reduction Act at a summit on Thursday (9 February) but left the details to the EU executive, which is expected to table new proposals next month.

Moldova's intelligence service said Thursday (9 February) that Russia was acting to destabilise the ex-Soviet country, following comments by Ukraine's president that Kyiv had intercepted a plan by Moscow.

Bern said it will not join the European Union’s proposed mass exit from a controversial energy investment protection treaty, sparking fears that fossil fuel companies will use Switzerland as a rear base to keep suing governments over climate action.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday (9 February) several Western countries were ready to provide Kyiv with aircraft to defeat Russia's invasion.

The rescue of several survivors from the rubble of buildings in Turkey lifted the spirits of weary search crews on Friday (10 February), four days after a major earthquake struck the country and neighbouring Syria, killing at least 20,000 people.

German authorities searched the premises of three companies early Thursday (9 February) as part of an ongoing probe into the possible violation of European Union sanctions against Russia, prosecutors said in a statement.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the number of asylum seekers soaring in Croatia, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticising President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz meeting Zelenskyy without inviting her, and so much more.

The exclusion of the Italian government from two key meetings of France and Germany with US officials and Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenskyy has sparked a debate in Rome about Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s “EU isolation”. For its part, the...

Cypriots return to the polls Sunday (12 February) to choose a new president from between the two front-runners in last weekend's first round -- ex-foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides and career diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis.