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A student waves a Bulgarian flag as tens of thousands of Bulgarians gather in Sofia's central square, demanding the government's resignation, Sofia, 10 December 2025
Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests
SOFIA — Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned on Thursday after tens of thousands of Bulgarians joined protests across the country the night before, demanding that the government step down over allegations of widespread corruption."We hear the voice of the citizens, we must rise to the demands. Both the young and the old raised their voices in favour of the resignation. This civic position must be encouraged," Zhelyazkov said, announcing his cabinet's resignation at an extraordinary session in the National Assembly."However, a challenge lies ahead, the protests must convey what the profile of the government should be from this moment on," he added."Citizens must demand this from the leaders of the protest, this is a call for a government that builds on the achievements of the...
December 12, 2025

Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests

French anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci (centre) is mourning his brother Mehdi, who was murdered in Marseille
Panic in France as children fall victim to lethal violence of Marseille drug gangs
MARSEILLE — A group of children spotted Adel's body on their way to school, just as his parents were heading to the police station to report him missing. A grotesque, charred silhouette, reclining, with one knee raised, as if lounging on one of Marseille's nearby beaches.He was 15 when he died, in the usual way: a bullet in the head, then petrol poured over his slim corpse and set on fire.Someone even filmed the scene on the beach, the latest in a grim series of shoot-then-burn murders linked to this port city's fast-evolving drug wars, increasingly fuelled by social media and now marked by chillingly random acts of violence and by the growing role of children, often coerced into the trade."It's chaos now," said a scrawny gang-member, lifting his shirt in a nearby...
December 11, 2025

Panic in France as children fall victim to lethal violence of Marseille drug gangs

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine presents response to US peace plan
KYIV — Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the contours of a tenuous potential deal take shape and the US president continues to make clear he wants the conflict resolved quickly.Efforts to end the yearslong war have sharply accelerated in recent weeks. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested a solution could soon be “figured out,” telling reporters at the White House that “a lot of people say it’s closer than it’s ever been.”He said he “discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words” with his British, French and German counterparts, whom he said had floated the idea of Trump flying to Europe for a meeting, along with...
December 11, 2025

Ukraine presents response to US peace plan

Nicolas Sarkozy arriving at a book signing event on Wednesday
The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars
PARIS — Twenty days, 213 pages.For every 24 hours behind bars, Nicolas Sarkozy wrote more than 10 pages of his new book recounting his stint in Paris’ La Santé Prison.“It could have been a budget hotel, if you ignored the armored door with its eyehole,” the former French president recalls in the book, which hit shelves Wednesday, one month after he left jail on November 10.Prison was “hell,” Sarkozy writes in “Diary of a Prisoner,” which rides the waves of intense public interest and scrutiny around his September conviction for criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya.He was released early from his five-year sentence in November pending his appeal.The view out of his window was blocked by plastic panels, Sarkozy says of his time...
December 11, 2025

The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025
Daughter of Venezuela’s Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf
OSLO — The daughter of Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado spoke of the country’s fight for democracy as she accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on behalf of her mother, who was unable to attend the event in person.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who lives in hiding, had been expected to attend Wednesday’s acceptance ceremony in Oslo, in defiance of a decade-long travel ban placed on her.Statements on Wednesday suggested she would still be in Oslo at some point despite not attending the ceremony.In an audio recording released by the Norwegian Nobel Institute before the ceremony was due to start, Machado said, “I will be in Oslo, I am on my way to Oslo right now.”Earlier, her representatives said, “We confirm that she will not attend the Nobel...
December 10, 2025

Daughter of Venezuela’s Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

US President Donald Trump
US pounds the European Union in sharpest takedown yet as bloc mulls future of alliance
BRUSSELS — It's not a beating, it's a pounding.That's how one European diplomat described a week-long political hammering from the Trump administration directed straight at the European Union.First, a US government National Security Strategy warned that the bloc needs to either reverse course on a range of issues or risk "civilisational erasure", igniting a week of tensions.From Europe's international standing to entirely sovereign, domestic matters like migration and regulation, the Trump establishment has gone after the EU more sharply than ever. The question for Europeans now is whether the US remains a true ally.The campaign went global when Elon Musk, the world's richest man and owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, lashed out at...
December 10, 2025

US pounds the European Union in sharpest takedown yet as bloc mulls future of alliance

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine 'ready for elections' if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says
KYIV — Ukraine is "ready for elections", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid holding them.Zelensky's five-year term as president was due to end in May 2024, but elections have been suspended in Ukraine since martial law was declared after Russia's invasion.Speaking to reporters following Trump's comments in a wide-raging Politico interview, Zelensky said he would ask for proposals to be drawn up which could change the law.Elections could be held in the next 60 to 90 days if security for the vote was guaranteed with the help of the US and other allies, he said."I'm asking now, and I'm stating this openly, for the US to help me, perhaps together with our European colleagues, to ensure...
December 10, 2025

Ukraine 'ready for elections' if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting in London earlier this year. — EPA
Major talks on changes to ECHR migration rules set to start
STRASBOURG — International talks to revolutionize how the European Court of Human Rights handles migration cases will begin on Wednesday.The British government is urging partners to modernize the way states tackle the continent-wide illegal migration crisis.The talks are the most significant sign yet that international human rights law could be reinterpreted to make it easier for states to target people smuggling and set up "returns hubs" to hold people with no right to be in Europe.Writing ahead of the major meeting in Strasbourg, Sir Keir Starmer and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said other nations should rethink human rights laws to make protecting borders easier.Critics say the ECHR is getting in the way of removing more illegal migrants, while supporters say claims about...
December 10, 2025

Major talks on changes to ECHR migration rules set to start

Andrej Babiš arrives to be sworn in as the country's new prime minister at the Prague Castle in Prague, 9 December, 2025
Right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš sworn in as Czech Republic's new prime minister
PRAGUE — Andrej Babiš was sworn in as the Czech Republic's new prime minister on Tuesday following October's parliamentary elections.The billionaire, who previously served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021, promised Czechs that he would fight for their interests "at home and anywhere in the world" and would work to make the Czech Republic "the best place for life on earth."President Petr Pavel had asked Babiš to form a government after his right-wing ANO (YES) party won big in the October ballot.Babiš agreed to form a majority coalition government with two smaller political groups, the anti-migrant Freedom and Direct Democracy party and the right-wing Motorists for Themselves.The parties have agreed to form a 16-member Cabinet, with ANO holding eight posts, including the...
December 10, 2025

Right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš sworn in as Czech Republic's new prime minister

In this undated photo released by Lithuania's State Border Guard Service, an officer inspects a balloon used to carry cigarettes into Lithuania
Lithuania declares state of emergency over balloon incursions from Belarus
VILNIUS — Lithuania's government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency over security risks posed by smuggler balloons from Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks.Tensions between Vilnius and Minsk have escalated after meteorological balloons originating from Belarus forced neighbouring Lithuania to repeatedly close its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded.While the balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania, officials in the Baltic state say they are deliberate acts of disruption orchestrated by Russia-allied Belarus.Announcing the state of emergency, the Lithuanian government cited "national security interests" and the threat to human life, property and the environment from the balloons.The decision followed a cabinet...
December 09, 2025

Lithuania declares state of emergency over balloon incursions from Belarus

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