Russia's President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a righteous battle in Ukraine. Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard, he said. President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
Moldova's pro-Western ruling party has decisively won a parliamentary election which was plagued by claims of Russian interference and was widely seen as a definitive choice between staying in Europe's orbit or lurching into Moscow. With nearly all polling station reports counted on Monday, electoral data showed the pro-European Union Party of Action and Solidarity had 50.2 percent of the vote, while the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc has 24.2 percent, according to the Associated Press News agency.
More than 100,000 people rallied in Berlin, protesting against German support for Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators marched from Berlin's City Hall to the Grosser Stern on Saturday, following a call from a broad coalition of some 50 groups, including pro-Palestinian organisations, Medico International, Amnesty International, and the opposition Left Party, for a large demonstration. Organisers of the All Eyes on Gaza Stop the Genocide rally demanded an end to German complicity in Israel's genocidal war in the Palestinian enclave.
Slovakia has approved a constitutional amendment to limit the rights of same-sex couples. The country's parliament on Friday approved the change, which states that male and female will be the only recognised genders, and that school curricula must respect the cultural and ethical positions set out in the constitution. The amendment was approved with the minimum necessary 90 votes in the 150-seat lower house with the help of some conservative members of the opposition.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said his country's navy will join Italy in sending warships to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, which has come under drone attack in international waters en route to deliver aid to Gaza. Speaking to reporters in New York on Wednesday, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Sanchez said international law must be respected and the citizens of 45 nations participating in the aid mission had every right to sail in the Mediterranean unharmed.
Alleged Russian violations of Estonian and German airspace after its drone incursion in Poland have put NATO on edge. In the past week, Russia has ramped up a diplomacy of intimidation in the Baltic Sea using planes, drones and words aimed at Ukraine's European allies. After threats towards Finland earlier in September, Russia violated Estonian airspace on Friday and German airspace on Sunday, days after it had flown two dozen drones into Poland.
Just four men who crossed the English Channel in small boats from France to the United Kingdom have been deported back to France under a migrant-swap scheme signed between the two countries in July. The deportations, which have taken place over the past week, were carried out under a one-in-one-out migrant deal signed between the UK and France. A fifth, Eritrean, man has won a High Court ruling placing a temporary block on his deportation.
Russians will compete as neutral independent athletes without a national flag or anthem at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee has said, maintaining the same sanctions as the Paris Summer Games last year. The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in October 2023 for recognising regional Olympic councils for Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying the move had violated the Olympic Charter.
The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza. The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable. The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel. list of 3 itemsend of list And it wants to impose sanctions on two ministers as well as settlers in the occupied West Bank.
The 47-year-old anticorruption campaigner, who was serving a 19-year sentence at the time of his death, was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Navalnaya said that before his burial, his allies were able to obtain and securely transfer biological samples of Alexey abroad. They were then sent to two laboratories for testing, she added. These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion: Alexey was killed. More specifically, he was poisoned, Navalnaya said.
A backpack is forgotten on the train. It seems a simple enough problem to resolve, especially in Germany, oft famed for its orderliness and efficiency. But when you're living as a refugee or in exile, the documents the bag contained are not mere pieces of paper to be reissued. They very well may be irreplaceable a displaced person's only means of existing within a coldly bureaucratic society. To lose them can be devastating, turning borders into walls.
Russian attacks killed four people and injured 10 in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram on Monday. Two people were killed and one person was injured as Russian forces launched 449 strikes on 17 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack on Russian-occupied Donetsk, killing two civilians, Russia's state TASS news agency reported, citing local officials.
New data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has found that asylum applications to the 27-nation bloc fell 23 percent during the first six months of 2025 after a significant drop in Syrians seeking asylum in Europe since the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December. Syrians, who had been the largest group of asylum seekers in the past decade, sharply dropped to fourth place in May, the EUAA found.
We cannot close our eyes at what's happening in our country, said the Pride march organisers, who cited police violence and the arrest of protesters. Pride won't take part in creating a semblance of normalcy, they added, noting that this year's Pride march was itself a protest. At the gathering in the centre of the Serbian capital, participants held banners, including one that read Gays against police state!
Fenerbahce have sacked Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, two days after elimination from the Champions League playoffs by Benfica, the Turkish club said in a statement. We have parted ways with Jose Mourinho, who served as head coach of our professional A team since the 2024-2025 season. We thank him for his efforts for our team and wish him success in his future career, Friday's statement said.
Denmark has summoned the United States charge d'affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark's main national broadcaster reported that the government believed that at least three people with connections to Donald Trump's administration have been carrying out covert influence operations aimed at promoting Greenland's secession from Denmark to the United States.
Liam O'Hanna, 27, has been charged with a terror' offence for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag. A member of the Irish rap group Kneecap is due to appear in court, charged with a terror offence for allegedly supporting Hezbollah. Liam O'Hanna, 27, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, will appear at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on Wednesday after he was charged in May for displaying a Hezbollah flag during a London concert in November.
Europe outpaces the US in military support to Ukraine. Donald Trump wants to lead in diplomacy and end Russia's war. Europe is now pledging more military aid to Ukraine than the US. Meanwhile, Washington is negotiating the nation's future. President Donald Trump has held talks with the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents in a bid to end Moscow's war.
