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Police officers cordon off the area outside The American School of Madrid shortly after the former senior aide to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot

Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school

MADRID — Former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov, who worked as a senior aide to pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych, has been shot dead just outside the Spanish capital Madrid, a Spanish national police source told CNN.Portnov, 51, was shot several times as he was getting into a car around 9:15 a.m. local time (3:15 a.m. ET), the police source said. Various assailants shot him in the back and the head, and later fled into a wooded area, the source said.The shooting took place outside The American School of Madrid, located in Pozuelo de Alaracon, an affluent suburb just west of Madrid. It has just over 1,000 students from the United States, Spain and several dozen other countries.The school sent out various urgent messages to parents following the incident, which took place...

May 21, 2025

Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school

Russian ministry of defence video showed the training ground shortly before the missile strike

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise

KYIV — A Russian missile strike on a training exercise in Ukraine's Sumy border region has killed six servicemen and wounded more than 10 others, says Ukraine's National Guard.Russia's defense ministry had earlier released a video purporting to show an Iskander missile attack on a training camp, and state news agency Tass said up to 70 people had died.The Sumy region has come under repeated bombardment, and Ukraine launched a months-long occupation of part of Russia's neighboring Kursk region from there.The Ukrainian military said the aim of the offensive had been to help create a buffer zone to protect Sumy, but some have complained of the scale of military losses.Separately, the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had visited officials in Kursk the previous day, in...

May 21, 2025

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise

Police officers search buildings following the ban of the Reichsbürger group Kingdom of Germany in Gera, Germany, Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Germany arrests five teenagers over alleged right-wing extremist plot and attacks

BERLIN — German police on Wednesday arrested five teenagers linked to a right-wing extremist group that allegedly intended to carry out attacks on migrants and political opponents.The early morning arrests across several states in Germany followed raids on 13 properties associated with the self-styled "The Last Wave of Defense", federal prosecutors said in a statement.Four of those arrested — identified only as Benjamin H, Ben-Maxim H, Lenny M and Jason R, in line with German privacy rules — are suspected of membership of a domestic terror organization. The fifth, Jerome M, is accused of supporting the group.Two of the individuals are also accused of attempted murder and aggravated arson. All five are between the ages of 14 and 18.Prosecutors said they are also...

May 21, 2025

Germany arrests five teenagers over alleged right-wing extremist plot and attacks

Police and forensic investigators on the scene following an attack in the western city of Bielefeld, 18 May, 2025

German police arrest suspect in Bielefeld stabbing attack that injured five people

BERLIN — A suspect who allegedly attacked and injured five people outside a bar in the western German city of Bielefeld has been arrested after an almost two-day search, German media reported."The detailed work paid off and we were able to arrest the surprised perpetrator," the state interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, told dpa news agency after a man was arrested late on Monday evening in the town of Heiligenhaus near Düsseldorf.According to police, the suspect is a 35-year-old Syrian living in Germany.Early on Sunday, five men between 22 and 27 — football fans celebrating their team, Arminia Bielefeld, securing the league title in the German third division — were attacked by a suspect wielding a sharp object outside a bar in downtown Bielefeld.Four...

May 20, 2025

German police arrest suspect in Bielefeld stabbing attack that injured five people

Oil tanker (file photo)

Russia releases Greek-owned oil tanker after brief detention near Estonia

TALLINN — Russia has released a Greek-owned oil tanker which was seized on Sunday in Russian waters after leaving a port in Estonia, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported.The Liberian-flagged Green Admire is now sailing in the Baltic Sea and is headed for the Dutch port of Rotterdam, according to ERR and the LSEG ship tracking data service.The tanker was seized by Russian authorities after departing from the Estonian port of Sillamäe and using a designated navigation channel that crosses Russian waters, Estonia's foreign ministry said on Sunday.Estonia's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that Russia's action against the Green Admire was likely a response to the Estonian navy's campaign against Russia's so-called "shadow fleet", in which it is...

May 20, 2025

Russia releases Greek-owned oil tanker after brief detention near Estonia

A house outside of Kyiv that was heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike overnight

Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine ahead of expected Trump-Putin call

KYIV — Russia battered Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the war began, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, ahead of an expected phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending hostilities.Russia launched 273 Shahed drones in one night, the Ukrainian Air Force said, predominantly targeting the central Kyiv region, where they killed a 28-year-old woman and wounded three others including a 4-year-old child, according to the region’s governor.The barrage came as Trump said he would speak to Putin by phone on Monday.The Russian leader has previously ignored a proposal from Washington and Kyiv for a 30-day ceasefire and last week snubbed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet face-to-face for talks in...

May 19, 2025

Russia launches largest drone attack against Ukraine ahead of expected Trump-Putin call

Romanian Presidential candidate Nicusor Dan celebrates his electoral victory in Bucharest

Romania’s pro-West candidate Nicușor Dan wins presidential election in dramatic comeback

BUCHAREST — Pro-West independent candidate Nicusor Dan staged a dramatic comeback on Sunday to win the Romanian presidential elections with a firm 54% of the votes.His contender, hard-right candidate George Simion, with 46% of votes, at first refused to concede in an unprecedented political thriller which transfixed and polarised the country on NATO’s eastern flank, but then relented, congratulating Dan on his victory late on Sunday night.“It’s a bitter feeling, but this election is just the beginning," Simion said, congratulating his opponent.Romanians have chosen to continue their current pro-Western course by turning out in record numbers to vote for the unassuming mayor of Bucharest and against the nationalist doctrines represented by Simion and his ally Calin...

May 19, 2025

Romania’s pro-West candidate Nicușor Dan wins presidential election in dramatic comeback

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, center, chairs a Turkey Russia Ukraine trilateral meeting at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday.

Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul kick off with lowered expectations

ISTANBUL — Ukraine and Russia began their meeting in Istanbul on Friday, the first attempt at a ceasefire negotiation in a format that also includes representatives of the US and Turkey.The head of Ukraine’s delegation Rustem Umerov said the Kyiv team already met with the US Special Representative Keith Kellogg, National Security Advisor to the UK Prime Minister Jonathan Powell, Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to the Federal Chancellor of Germany Günter Sautter and French President Emmanuel Macron's top diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne.Ukraine’s defense minister was accompanied by the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.Umerov said the sides coordinated their positions with their partners, and that "the Ukrainian side...

May 16, 2025

Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul kick off with lowered expectations

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, center, embarks on a flight at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport on Friday, en route to Tirana for the European Political Community Summit.

German leader threatens Russia with fresh sanctions over no-show at Istanbul talks

BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the wrong for not attending Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, and pledged to slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.The talks are beginning on Friday and mark the first time the warring sides have held direct talks at any level since soon after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Putin snubbed the talks and sent a low-level Russian delegation to attend in his place.The German chancellor has pledged a fresh sanctions package against Moscow over Putin’s no-show. “The fact that President Zelenskyy traveled to Turkey despite this is an enormous gesture. Putin didn’t show up – and that put him in the wrong,” Merz wrote on X.“A new sanctions package is ready. We will adopt it in...

May 16, 2025

German leader threatens Russia with fresh sanctions over no-show at Istanbul talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday

A day of confusion and chaos as Russia and Ukraine agree to first direct talks in 3 years

ISTANBUL — After five days of confusion over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for direct talks with Ukraine, the day they were supposed to begin initially brought only more of the same: a seven-hour stakeout on the banks of the Bosphorus, an unruly scrum at the Russian consulate, and finally a decision from Ukraine’s president that may open a new chapter in this intractable conflict.The chaotic scenes that unfolded in Istanbul on Thursday set the tone for a difficult road ahead. As the world’s media descended in the morning on the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Ukraine still hadn’t confirmed it would take part or given any signals as to the makeup of its delegation, and a source from the Turkish foreign ministry told CNN there was “no scheduled meeting...

May 16, 2025

A day of confusion and chaos as Russia and Ukraine agree to first direct talks in 3 years

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