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President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk at the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 in Boca Chica, Texas
Elon Musk sparks furor over support for British far-right instigator Tommy Robinson
LONDON — Elon Musk has called for the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, triggering a salvo of criticism from center-left and liberal British MPs.Musk pinned a post on X saying "Free Tommy Robinson" at the top of his profile Thursday after several posts criticising Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Minister for Safeguarding Jess Phillips over their responses to rape gangs in Rochdale and Oldham.This prompted questions about what should be done now that X, the social media platform Musk owns, is favouring more extreme world views and whether the UK government should leave it, domestic media reported.“(Musk) has pushed it too far this time. Twitter (now X9 is really rapidly becoming a cesspit, even for disinterested non-partisan types,” one MP told the...
January 03, 2025

Elon Musk sparks furor over support for British far-right instigator Tommy Robinson

People light candles in Podgorica for the victims of the a shooting rampage in Cetinje, 2 January, 2025
 Thousands attend vigil in Podgorica for 12 victims of Cetinje shooting rampage
PODGORICA — Thousands of people have attended a candlelight vigil to remember the 12 victims of a mass shooting in Montenegro.It happened on Wednesday in the central town of Cetinje when a man started a shooting rampage after a bar brawl, killing 12 and wounding at least four others.Two children were among the victims and the man, named as 45-year-old Aco Martinović, died after shooting himself in the head.This was the second such incident in the town in the past three years."I feel very bad. I can't believe that we failed so much as a society. We failed as people too. Why didn't they try to save him before? Now it's too late. It's just too late, I don't know what to say, it's very hard. It's very hard for our society, for all of us," said pensioner...
January 03, 2025

 Thousands attend vigil in Podgorica for 12 victims of Cetinje shooting rampage

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran
Italy summons Iran's ambassador to demand release of journalist Cecilia Sala
ROME — Italy has summoned Iran’s ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran in December, as the government and opposition ramp up public pressure on the politically sensitive case.Cecilia Sala, a reporter for the Il Foglio daily newspaper, was arrested in Tehran on 19 December, six days after she arrived in the country on a journalist's visa.Tehran confirmed on Monday that Sala had been arrested on charges of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.The agency did not give any further details about which laws Sala had allegedly broken.The Italian foreign ministry said it had summoned Iran's ambassador Mohammad Reza Sabouri to demand her release and to ensure...
January 03, 2025

Italy summons Iran's ambassador to demand release of journalist Cecilia Sala

The Finnish Coast Guard stopped a small boat which tried to reach the Eagle S anchored in Porvoo, 30 December, 2024
Police in Finland say Eagle S crew detained as Estlink-2 cable damage probe continues
HELSINKI — Police in Finland say the crew of a Russia-linked tanker suspected of damaging a power cable under the Baltic Sea have been detained indefinitely.The Eagle S crew consists of 24 people with Finland’s Central Criminal Police imposing movement restrictions on eight."During interrogations and investigations, the police have tried to find out who was involved in the incident and who was responsible for the ship's course during the incident. Accordingly, the freedom of movement of eight persons is currently restricted on the basis of suspicion of a crime," said Detective Superintendent Elina Katajamäki from the National Bureau of Investigation."However, this number may change as the hearings continue and the circumstances become clear on an ongoing...
January 03, 2025

Police in Finland say Eagle S crew detained as Estlink-2 cable damage probe continues

People resting at a refugee shelter in Ubla, Slovakia, in February 2022 after Russia launched its war against Ukraine
Slovakia threatens to cut benefit for Ukrainians
BRATISLAVA — Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates.On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas.Slovakia had been the main entry point and the country now stands to lose millions of euros in transit fees.The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) estimated last month that there were 130,530 Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia out of 6,813,900 globally.Fico, who in December made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, described Kyiv's move as "sabotage".The prime minister of the EU state said he would propose halting electricity...
January 03, 2025

Slovakia threatens to cut benefit for Ukrainians

Police officers and civil protection units at the crime scene
National mourning after mass shooting in Montenegro
PODGORICA — A gunman has shot dead at least 10 people, including two children, in southern Montenegro on Wednesday, police say.At least some of the deaths happened inside a restaurant in the Cetinje area following a verbal argument between guests, according to a police official quoted by public broadcaster RTCG.It was later confirmed that the attacker had killed himself.The government has declared three days of national mourning from Thursday with Prime Minister Milojko Spajic describing the shooting as a "terrible tragedy".The gunman killed members of his own family, two of the restaurant owner's children and also the owner, according to Interior Minister Danilo Saranovic.Mr Saranovic called the incident a "consequence of disturbed interpersonal relations",...
January 02, 2025

National mourning after mass shooting in Montenegro

Romanian minister of Internal Affairs Catalin Predoiu amid fireworks as Romania and Bulgaria join the EU's Schengen area
Romania and Bulgaria fully join Europe’s borderless travel zone
BRUSSELS — Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border controls in the bloc.The expansion was officially introduced at midnight on Wednesday and was marked by celebrations at some of the countries’ border posts.“Welcome to Schengen, Bulgaria and Romania!” the European Parliament wrote in a post on X Wednesday.“As of today, there will be no more checks when traveling across land borders between Bulgaria or Romania and any Schengen member country,” it added.At the stroke of midnight, the Bulgarian and Romanian interior ministers symbolically raised a barrier of the Danube Bridge, Reuters reported. That crossing, also known as the Friendship Bridge, connects the two countries and is a key transit...
January 02, 2025

Romania and Bulgaria fully join Europe’s borderless travel zone

Police officers stand guard in the streets after fireworks celebrations in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday
Five killed as firework chaos mars Germany’s New Year celebrations
BERLIN — Five people have been killed and dozens of emergency workers were injured as a spate of incidents involving fireworks marred New Year’s Eve celebrations in Germany.Despite calls for a nationwide ban on the private use of fireworks, they continue to be a significant part of New Year’s celebrations in the country, with thousands of the pyrotechnics set off on city streets each year.Among those killed were two people in the eastern state of Saxony, according to local public broadcaster MDR, including a 45-year-old man who was killed after handling what was described as a “firework bomb.”Firefighters and other emergency services personnel were targeted by the fireworks during festivities overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday, authorities said.In the capital Berlin,...
January 02, 2025

Five killed as firework chaos mars Germany’s New Year celebrations

A firefighter works at the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, on December 30, 2024
Damaged black box from crashed Jeju Air plane will be sent to US for analysis, says South Korea
SEOUL — The damaged flight data recorder from the Jeju Air passenger jet that crash-landed in South Korea will be sent to the United States for analysis, Seoul’s transport ministry said Wednesday, as bereaved families began visiting the crash site.The recorder is one of two “black boxes” retrieved from the Boeing 737-800 after it belly-landed at Muan International Airport in the country’s southwest on Sunday, killing all but two of the 181 people onboard, the deadliest aviation accident for South Korea in almost three decades.Authorities said the black box was damaged in the crash, and concluded that South Korea is not capable of extracting the data, Seoul’s deputy minister of civil aviation Joo Jong-wan told reporters Wednesday. Earlier, Joo said the flight data recorder was...
January 01, 2025

Damaged black box from crashed Jeju Air plane will be sent to US for analysis, says South Korea

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban prepares to address a media conference at the end of an EU Summit at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
Hungary's controversial presidency of the Council of the European Union comes to an end
WARSAW — Poland gears up to take over presidency of the European Union as the controversial Hungarian term comes to an end.The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the 27 member states once every six months.The country in the presidency is tasked with guiding the council’s work and representing all member states in negotiations with other EU institutions.Hungary led the council from 1 July through to the end of the year. On the first day of the new year, they will be succeeded by Poland.Hungary’s term began with a controversial start, as the presidency launched with a campaign titled "Make Europe Great Again”, a slight variation of former and incoming US President Donald Trump’s infamous “Make America Great Again”, or MAGA, slogan.But it didn’t...
December 31, 2024

Hungary's controversial presidency of the Council of the European Union comes to an end

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