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The two-day Berlin meeting was also attended by US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump.
Europeans vow to assist Ukraine against future Russian attack after Berlin talks
BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed progress with US negotiators after two days of talks in Berlin as European leaders committed to coming to Kyiv's aid in a future attack by Russia to end a cycle of aggression extending more than a decade.Still, questions remain about the future of Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia and the operational details of how security guarantees, particularly those provided by the US, would work in practice.Europeans also welcomed the outcome of the meetings, after which they listed assistance measures that would encompass "armed force, intelligence and logistical assistance, economic and diplomatic actions".In a joint statement released on Monday evening, European leaders provided their most detailed outline yet of the security...
December 16, 2025

Europeans vow to assist Ukraine against future Russian attack after Berlin talks

Blaise Metreweli
MI6 operating in space between peace and war, says UK spy chief
LONDON — The new MI6 chief has said "we are now operating in a space between peace and war" as she laid out the "interlocking web of security challenges" that the service is working to tackle.Blaise Metreweli's first public speech since taking the role focused on the multi-faceted threat posed by Russia, which she said was "testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war".She also highlighted the "the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia" while referring to the war in Ukraine, insisting the UK would maintain pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine's behalf.Ms Metreweli is the first woman to head Britain's overseas spy agency.She took over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service from Sir Richard...
December 16, 2025

MI6 operating in space between peace and war, says UK spy chief

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Steve Witkoff in Berlin
US offers Ukraine 'strong' security guarantees but territory still unresolved
BERLIN — The US has said it is ready to offer Ukraine Nato-like security guarantees to safeguard an eventual ceasefire, following talks in Berlin with European officials and a delegation from Kyiv.The "very strong" guarantees would be modelled on Nato's Article 5 clause of mutual protection, US officials said, adding that the Russians would hopefully agree to them.While US officials talked up progress towards ending the war, there was little detail on how the thorny issue of Ukraine's sovereignty would be resolved in any peace deal.Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky described the meeting as "productive" but not easy.He added that Kyiv needed a "clear understanding of security guarantees" before it could make any decisions about other contentious issues.Ukraine has long argued it...
December 16, 2025

US offers Ukraine 'strong' security guarantees but territory still unresolved

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
Meloni calls for Europe to strengthen defense as US signals pullback
ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni closed her party's annual Atreju rally on Sunday by defending her government's record and calling on Europe to strengthen its own defence capabilities in response to US President Donald Trump's shifting security strategy.Speaking at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Meloni said Trump had made clear that the US intends to disengage from Europe and that Europeans must organise their own defence."Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe," Meloni said."For eighty years we outsourced our security to the US pretending it was free, but there was a price to pay and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price."Meloni's comments come...
December 15, 2025

Meloni calls for Europe to strengthen defense as US signals pullback

Ahmed managed to wrestle the gun from the attacker in the struggle
Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman
SYDNEY — A bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from Sydney's Sutherland Shire.Video footage shows Ahmed, wearing a white T-shirt, charging one of the shooters from behind, wrestling away his rifle and then pointing it at the attacker, who retreated towards a bridge where the second gunman was positioned.Ahmed then placed the rifle against a tree and raised his hands, apparently to signal to police he was not a threat.During the struggle, Ahmed was shot twice by the second gunman..Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.Fifteen people died and dozens were...
December 15, 2025

Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman

Crowds outside Australia House in London. A small number of people can be seen waving Israel and UK flags
UK events remember Bondi victims as police step up security in Jewish communities
LONDON — The victims of a mass shooting during an event marking Hanukkah at Australia's Bondi Beach have been remembered at events around the UK.Police forces in England and Scotland have said they are increasing their visibility among Jewish communities, as events celebrating the religious holiday get under way.Fifteen people, including a child, were killed during the Bondi shooting, officials have said, in an attack targeting members of the Jewish community.A crowd of around 100 people gathered outside the Australian High Commission in central London for a vigil on Sunday evening.People could be seen waving British and Israeli flags, while some held signs reading: "Stop the Hate".Speaking at the vigil, the rabbi for Marleybone, Yisroel Lew, lit a menorah and said: "After hearing...
December 15, 2025

UK events remember Bondi victims as police step up security in Jewish communities

 Police officers install barriers in front of the Brandenburg Gate as part of the closure of the city centre in Berlin, Germany, 14 December 2025. (EPA)
Five arrested in Germany over suspected plot to ram vehicle into Christmas market crowd
BERLIN — German authorities have arrested five men suspected of involvement in a plot to carry out a vehicle attack at a Christmas market in the southern state of Bavaria, prosecutors said. The suspects — three Moroccan nationals, an Egyptian and a Syrian — were detained on Friday amid suspicions of an Islamist motive. Prosecutors said a 56-year-old Egyptian man is alleged to have called for a vehicle attack with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible, while the three Moroccan men allegedly agreed to carry out the attack. The Syrian suspect, a 37-year-old, is accused of encouraging the others in their decision to commit the crime, authorities said. Officials did not specify when the planned attack was to take place or which market was targeted, but said...
December 14, 2025

Five arrested in Germany over suspected plot to ram vehicle into Christmas market crowd

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilize €210 billion of Russian assets
STRASBOURG — The European Union has agreed to indefinitely immobilize the assets of the Russian Central Bank, a central element of the reparations loan to Ukraine, still under intense negotiations ahead of a make-or-break summit next week.By doing so, the EU locks in the assets under its jurisdiction for the foreseeable future amid fears that the United States might seek control of the Russian funds and use them in a future settlement with Moscow to end the war.The long-term immobilization was agreed by ambassadors on Thursday afternoon under Article 122 of the EU treaties, which only requires a qualified majority from member states and bypasses the European Parliament.The law prohibits the transfer of the €210 billion in assets back to the Russian Central Bank. The bulk of the assets,...
December 12, 2025

EU agrees to indefinitely immobilize €210 billion of Russian assets

A view of the Austrian parliament in Vienna
Austria's parliament passes law banning headscarves for schoolgirls under age of 14
VIENNA — Austria's parliament passed a law on Thursday banning schoolgirls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf.The coalition government, made up of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and Neos, said the new law represents a "clear commitment to gender equality" and applies to girls in both public and private schools.Under the new law, all girls under 14 are forbidden from wearing what the government called "traditional Muslim" head coverings, which includes hijabs and burqas.If any student is found to have violated the ban, they must enter into discussions with the school authorities and parents or legal guardians.In the case of repeated violations, the youth welfare agency must be notified and families or responsible adults could be...
December 12, 2025

Austria's parliament passes law banning headscarves for schoolgirls under age of 14

A Ukrainian serviceman works with a ground-based robotic system during their training at an undisclosed location near the frontline in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 11 December 2025. — EPA
US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says
KYIV — The United States has suggested creating a “free economic zone” in parts of the eastern Donbas region from which Ukraine would withdraw under a negotiated peace with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.In wide-ranging comments to reporters, Zelensky said that Kyiv has presented the US with an updated version of a peace plan — “not a single document, but a set of documents,” many of which need to be finalized. He said the Trump administration wants a “full understanding” of the status of the plan by Christmas.Questions of territory remain unresolved, the Ukrainian leader said. “The Russians want the whole of the Donbas — but we, of course, do not accept this,” he explained. Russia has been fighting in the Donbas region, which spans the...
December 12, 2025

US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says

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