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The European Union has underlined that the status quo of holy sites in the occupied Old City of al-Quds should be preserved. It comes after Israel’s new far-right “national security” minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in what…
Ukraine’s military says it launched strike that resulted in Russian loss of equipment and possibly personnel near Makiivka
Much of the Alps does not look right for this time of year following unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe, including record high January temperatures in Switzerland. The sparse snowfall has seen grass blanketing the continent’s central mountains…
Moscow’s ‘unprofessional practices’ leading to high death rate, says UK
Kyrylo Budanov says he expects fighting to be ‘hottest’ in March, with a Ukraine counter attack in the spring. This blog is now closedRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceThe city administration in Kyiv has said that 160 million passengers used the city’s sub…
Gaelic origins of Icelandic words and landmarks challenge orthodox view of Viking heritage, says authorAccording to folklore, a Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud was among Iceland’s earliest settlers. Her story is central to an emerging theory t…
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Mosc…
Burial place has fallen into severe disrepair, to dismay of families of those laid to rest thereWild vegetation smothers the crumbling tombs, most of them dating back to the 1800s, that line the square beneath the imposing Chiesa Madre, or Mother Churc…
About 200 people laid roses and wreaths in a central square in the city of Samara, where some vowed to ‘avenge’ the victimsRussia-Ukraine war: full coverageMourners have voiced grief and anger at a rare public commemoration in Russia for the scores of …
Berlin insists all financial claims have been settled as Warsaw seeks £1.2tn for war lossesGermany has rebuffed the latest push by Poland’s nationalist government for vast reparations over the second world war, saying in response to a diplomatic note t…