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A police trade union has come forward with accusations of a “purge” after the terms of all commanders and directors ended following the passing of new legislation. The situation developed amid warnings over increased political influence on the police, an...

Russia's military said it would establish a new paratroop regiment in annexed Crimea, completing a reshuffle of forces announced by defence minister Sergei Shoigu in March, Reuters writes. At the same time, Moscow voiced its objections to a framework agreement under which Ukraine will use British funding to improve its naval capabilities, allowing it to buy missiles and build a navy base on the Sea of Azov.

As Germany registered over 52,000 new infections on Wednesday, chancellor Angela Merkel said that the epidemiological situation was dramatic, Reuters reported. "Everyone who gets vaccinated protects himself and others. And if enough people get vaccinated that is the way out of the pandemic," she said, arguing that it is never too late to take the first jab. Only 68 percent of the German population is fully-vaccinated.

The head of the USKOK anti-corruption office admitted that it made an oversight by failing to notify the European Public Prosecutor’s Office about inquiries in the ‘Software’ case, saying the inquiries were no longer active and dismissing claims of a...

Politicians, human rights organisations and former foreign detainees have raised concerns about major general Ahmed Naser Al-Raisia, a United Arab Emirates candidate running for presidency of the International Police Organisation (Interpol), Deutsche Welle writes. German MPs accuse the major of being "directly involved in human rights violations in a number of high-profile cases." The new head of Interpol will be elected next week.

The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee will urge the European Commission to strengthen the monitoring and audit of EU funds for Bulgaria, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility. This is expected to happen at the committee’s next meeting on Thursday...

The Belgian Appeal Court delivered a landmark ruling, in what Kazakhstan's legal representatives described as "one of the biggest frauds in the history of international arbitration."

A new wave of Covid-19 infections has been sweeping through central Europe, where the vaccination rate is generally below the EU average - partly due to low trust in institutions.

A leaked internal document reveals dozens of operational plans to crack down on migrant-smugglers next year, including a target to make over 1,400 arrests - mostly under the aegis of the EU's border agency Frontex.

The European Commission has unveiled a landmark piece of legislation to reduce and reverse the impact of EU consumption on global deforestation, targeting companies selling soy, beef, palm oil, wood, cocoa and coffee in the bloc.

Once again, it is time for global progressives to join forces and take the lead in changing the world.

As some politicians, including in the neighbouring countries Serbia and Croatia, ratchet-up their inflammatory rhetoric, the international community is struggling to find a response to escalating tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Germany may at first have been naive in some areas of cooperation with China, but should not sever all connections in reaction to growing tensions, Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Reuters.

On Wednesday (17 November) data from the Polish health ministry confirmed a sharp rise with 24,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 460 deaths. The new COVID-19 cases come as the Polish government faces criticism for its response to the pandemic....

Bratislava is stepping up its effort to fight disinformation, which many consider one of the main reasons for the country’s low vaccination rate, by setting up a centre to combat hybrid threats. The technical solution for the detection and assessment...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Germany should stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe if it wants to work for peace, linking the project to his country's handling of migrants on the Belarus border.

Portugal is one of the EU countries with the lowest inflation rates, Finance Minister João Leão said on Wednesday, stressing that the increase is considered to be temporary, and reiterated wage increases of 0.9% in the public sector. “Portugal remains...

The volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma eased Wednesday, but air quality is seriously deteriorating, prompting school closures and flight cancellations due to ash, on Wednesday. Experts said there was still no indication of when it will...

Nurses and doctors gathered in Rome on Wednesday to protest the lack of emergency department staff as the sector faces a deep crisis due to a shortage of about 4,000 nurses and doctors and poor working conditions. They said that...

The Russian foreign ministry published on Wednesday (17 November) a number of diplomatic letters it exchanged with Germany and France to try to show that its diplomatic stance on talks over east Ukraine has been misrepresented.