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President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday (8 January) for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he prepares for a re-election bid.

Albania is not currently under threat but it is prepared for the worst-case scenario, said Defence Minister Niko Peleshi, referring to the purchase of Bayraktar drones from Turkey. In December, Albania purchased three Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, a model used...

KFOR, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, has rejected Serbia’s request to return Serbian security forces to the country’s north following rising tensions over the last month. The request to send in 1,000 military and security forces was made...

Janez Zemljarič, a politician who held several top positions during the communist era, including head of the secret police, has been buried with military honours, sparking controversy and reigniting old political divisions. Zemljarič served as the first minister of Slovenia’s...

President Rumen Radev is expected to soon hand over the third and final government mandate, meaning that if parties will again fail to form a coalition, Bulgarians will be called back to the polls for the fifth time in  five...

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s widely known and respected Democracy Index (latest edition), “Democratisation suffered more reversals in 2021, with the percentage of people living in a democracy falling to well below 50% and authoritarian regimes gaining ground. This year’s report finds that democracy experienced its biggest annual decline since 2010, when the global financial crash led to major setbacks.”

President Zuzana Čaputová gave the coalition until the end of January to find a new majority in the National Council, while Prime Minister Eduard Heger said negotiations are underway, the prospects look bleak. Heger’s government lost a no-confidence vote in...

Parliament will start discussions this week on a bill to reform the Supreme Court in another attempt to convince the European Commission to unfreeze Poland’s EU recovery money. The Commission has blocked funds worth €35.4 billion that Poland is due...

Fashion giant Zara saw its workers strike in demand for wage increases and better labour conditions on Saturday – the day the much-anticipated winter sales started. Large Spanish retail companies like Zara’s mother company Inditex and El Corte Inglés are...

Discussions about donating tanks to Ukraine is gathering more ground in Finland following the recent decisions by France, Germany and the United States to do the same. In an MTV3 News interview, the Chair of the parliament’s Defence Committee, Antti...

The recent sharp drop in asylum seekers in mid-December and early January is a development Austria’s conservative interior minister attributes to Serbia restricting travel for Indians and Tunisians. At their peak, some 1,000 Indian citizens applied for asylum in Austria...

Police from all over the country are being sent to the western German village of Lützerath to evict climate activists currently blocking its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.

Brazilian security forces wrested back control of Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Sunday (8 January) after a flood of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's supporters stormed the seat of power, unleashing chaos on the capital.

Bosnian Serbs will hold a controversial parade on Monday to mark the “statehood day” of their entity, Republika Srpska (RS), although Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court had long ruled the holiday unconstitutional. At the end of a brutal 1992-95 war amongst Serbs,...

The Czech Republic is saying goodbye to the decade-long era of controversial Czech President Miloš Zeman, known for his pro-Russian and pro-Chinese positions, and is hoping for a new democratic president. Before the end of his mandate and start of...

Italian motorists are facing soaring fuel prices at the pump, but the government, which sets the currently very high excise duty and VAT, keeps pointing fingers at speculating resellers.

Right-wing party Les Républicains confirmed it will back the much-delayed pension reform promised by President Emmanuel Macron, meaning that after months of uncertainty, it could now be passed with a parliamentary majority. The pension reform bill, among Macron’s key campaign...

The founder of Russia's Wagner group said on 7 January he wanted his forces and the regular Russian army to capture the small city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine because it possessed "underground cities" that can hold troops and tanks.

Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg on Saturday (7 January) discouraged non-essential trips to China, the world's most populous nation, as it struggles with a surge in Covid cases after relaxing strict virus restrictions.

A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts.