Several news outlets in the UK yesterday reported on the corruption charges brought against UK Treasury’s Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Russia said yesterday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine’s SBU security service.

Scholz's three-party coalition fell apart last month after the pro-market Free Democrats quit in a row over debt

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for an early general election on February 23.

Five migrants died early yesterday when a migrant boat sank off Crete, Greece’s coastguard said, leaving 40 people reportedly missing while 39 survivors were rescued. The boat sank 12 nautical miles southwest of the island, according to ERTNEWS, which reported the 40 missing.

Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite Mountains but is not leaving its two main bases in the country after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, four Syrian officials told Reuters.

The UK weather service forecast yesterday that 2025 would likely be among the top three warmest years globally, falling just behind the record-breaking temperatures set in the past months.

Britain, Germany, France, Italy and several other European countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad

France yesterday prepared to throw open the doors of the capital’s Notre Dame cathedral after a half-decade closure, in a ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders celebrating the rebirth of the Paris landmark ravaged by a devastating fire.

Notre Dame will formally reopen Saturday five years after the Paris cathedral was devastated by fire, with US president-elect Donald Trump among world leaders there to celebrate its remarkably rapid restoration

In a year set to be declared the hottest on record, natural disasters caused $310 billion in economic losses globally in 2024, as climate change increasingly takes its toll, Swiss Re said Thursday.

Romanians yesterday flocked to the polls to elect a new parliament with the far right tipped to gain ground, potentially heralding a shift in the foreign policy of the Nato country bordering Ukraine.

Police in Georgia arrested dozens of people overnight and early yesterday in a violent crackdown on protests against the government’s decision to delay EU membership talks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday praised US President-elect Donald Trump as an experienced and intelligent politician and questioned whether he was safe after attempts on his life.

Russian missiles damaged residential buildings in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv and Odesa in the south, and a blizzard of drones caused temporary power cuts in Mykolaiv region and targeted the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

Russia needs migrants in order to develop because of its dwindling domestic workforce, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published yesterday.

Spain’s left-wing government yesterday announced an immigration law reform regularising tens of thousands more migrants per year, in a fresh contrast to harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.

Sweden’s newspaper of reference, Dagens Nyheter (DN), said yesterday it would stop publishing its articles on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, citing a “harsh and extreme” climate.

UK jets were scrambled to monitor a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying close to UK airspace, the defence minister in London said yesterday.

Russia said yesterday it captured another village in east Ukraine, closing in on the town of Kurakhove after months of steady advances.