Zelensky due at Downing Street for high-level Ukraine talks
Posted on Monday December 08, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer will also welcome the leaders of France and Germany as Europe looks to respond to a US-led push for a peace deal.
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
Posted on Sunday December 07, 2025
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
Water leak in Louvre damages hundreds of books
Posted on Monday December 08, 2025
The leak in the Egyptian department comes just weeks after a jewellery heist that put the museum's security infrastructure under scrutiny.
Chernobyl radiation shield 'lost safety function' after drone strike, UN watchdog says
Posted on Sunday December 07, 2025
The protective shield at the site of the 1986 disaster has lost its main safety function, the IAEA says.
Olympics flame arrives in Rome ahead of Winter Games
Posted on Saturday December 06, 2025
The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is set to take place in February.
Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
Posted on Friday December 05, 2025
The shift in its approach to its military follows a push to create Europe's strongest conventional army.
'I don't want to be part of this war machine': Young Germans protest against military service plans
Posted on Friday December 05, 2025
Germany is introducing voluntary military service to boost national defences after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Which European countries have mandatory or voluntary military service
Posted on Friday December 05, 2025
The issue of forcing citizens to serve in the military is back as the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on.