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'Balancing life and death': Ukrainian activists urge minute of silence 14 Dec 2024 - 09:42 am
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France's Mayotte on highest alert as Cyclone Chido nears 14 Dec 2024 - 08:39 am
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France's Macron names centrist ally Bayrou as PM 13 Dec 2024 - 09:17 pm
France's outgoing Prime minister Michel Barnier (left) applauds newly-appointed Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) party Francois Bayrou (right) during a handover ceremony at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on December 13, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Saboor / POOL / AFP)
Georgia crisis deepens as government set to name far-right president 13 Dec 2024 - 06:10 pm
Anti-government protesters wave a Georgian (L) and European Union (R) flag during a demonstration against the Georgian government's postponement of European Union accession talks until 2028, outside the Parliament in central Tbilisi on December 12, 2024. Photo by Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP.
German hospitals fear labour shortages if Syrians leave 13 Dec 2024 - 04:54 pm
Members of the Syrian community hols flags of Syria and Germany as they rally on December 8, 2024 in Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the end of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's rule after rebel fighters took control of the Syrian capital Damascus overnight. Islamist-led rebels toppled Syria's longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive that a UN envoy called
Serbian students refuse to end protest over fatal station collapse 12 Dec 2024 - 08:21 pm
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2025 'likely' to be in top three warmest years: UK Met Office 12 Dec 2024 - 03:55 pm
Arborists cut a tree blocking a road in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, on December 7, 2024 as storm Darragh brings winds of nearly 90 mph to the west of Wales and north-west England. (Photo by Paul Ellis / AFP)
EU states agree 'historic' full Schengen accession for Bulgaria, Romania 12 Dec 2024 - 03:23 pm
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Serbian mass shooting gunman jailed for 20 years 12 Dec 2024 - 03:02 pm
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German e-commerce giant Zalando snaps up local rival 11 Dec 2024 - 03:31 pm
Peninsula
Trump defends choice of Kushner for France envoy 11 Dec 2024 - 10:59 am
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and US President-elect Donald Trump (C) speak ahead of a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral, in central Paris, on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP)
Macron aims to pick new French PM 'within 48 hours' 10 Dec 2024 - 09:36 pm
France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Guinea-Bissau's president before a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Stephane De Sakutin / AFP)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Hidankyo calls for a world without nukes 10 Dec 2024 - 07:35 pm
The representatives of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki applaud during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2024. Photo by Javad Parsa / NTB / AFP
EU to consider 'measures' over Georgia protest crackdown 10 Dec 2024 - 06:29 pm
Photo used for representational purposes. Anti-government demonstrators take photographs of a coffin containing an image depicting Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili as it burns after being set on fire during the twelfth consecutive day of mass protests against the government's postponement of EU accession talks until 2028, in central Tbilisi on December 9, 2024. Photo by Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP
Shell, Greenpeace settle lawsuit over ship protest 10 Dec 2024 - 06:25 pm
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Polish PM says Ukraine peace talks could start this winter 10 Dec 2024 - 06:22 pm
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks with concrete anti-tank barriers in the background during his inspection of the first completed section of fortifications
German factory outfitters warn of difficult 2025 10 Dec 2024 - 06:11 pm
Photo used for representational purposes. An overview shows employees gather as they attend a rally of the metalworkers' union IG Metall in front of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) headquarters, during a warning strike at the company's main factory in Wolfsburg, northern Germany, on December 9, 2024. Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP.
Police make first arrests in deadly Dutch building collapse 10 Dec 2024 - 03:24 pm
Rescuers work on the site where an explosion and fire destroyed an apartment block, killing at least six people, on the Tarwekamp in The Hague on December 9, 2024. Photo by Josh Walet / ANP / AFP