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EuropeGermany pledges €50 million to repair Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant as the G7 raises €260 million for the damaged protective arch ahead of a November donor conference in Paris.
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EuropeUkraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries after a brief pause, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Financial Times, ending the US-backed energy truce.
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EuropeNATO will review its defence posture in the Black Sea region after drone attacks on commercial vessels off Bulgaria's coast left one cargo ship sunk and eleven sailors missing. Secretary General Mark Rutte said the alliance is monitoring the situation closely and will adjust its deterrence and defence measures if needed — NATO's first major
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EuropeFormer Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of 18 historic sexual offences against two children, closing one of the most shocking criminal cases in Northern Ireland's modern political history. Jeffrey Donaldson, 63, in an official portrait from his time as an MP. He denied
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EuropeRescuers are searching for eight missing sailors after a Black Sea ships fire left two chemical tankers ablaze inside Romania's territorial waters overnight. Romania's naval authority said it received an emergency alert from the San Marino-flagged tanker Wine Trader, which had 12 crew members on board when the fire broke out. Eight sailors were missing
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EuropeA large Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Ryazan region has triggered a fire at the Ryazan oil refinery, one of the country's most important fuel plants, regional officials said on Thursday. The strike is the first Ukrainian attack on Russian energy infrastructure since US President Donald Trump announced that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to
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EuropeYara J tanker drone attack off Romanian coast The Yara J tanker drone attack became the latest flashpoint in a widening campaign against commercial shipping in the Black Sea on Wednesday evening, October 14, 2026, when the Comoros-flagged chemical and oil tanker Yara J reported a fire on board while anchored inside Romanian territorial waters.
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EuropeUkraine said on Wednesday that new speed limits imposed on SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service had disrupted its military drone operations, and SpaceX chief Elon Musk responded that the military-grade Starshield system is "owned and controlled by the US government" — with any restrictions decided by the US military and ultimately President Donald Trump. FAKTA
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EuropeTIRANA: Student protests in Albania turned violent on Tuesday as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police outside the Ministry of Education in the capital, Tirana, in the most serious escalation of months of youth-led unrest in the country. What began as a nationwide rally over university conditions, education costs and graduate job prospects spiralled into
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EuropeRussian President Vladimir Putin brought together top government ministers, senior security officials and leading banking executives on Wednesday for a high-level meeting on cybersecurity, which the Kremlin described as an increasingly urgent challenge for the country. The session, announced by the Kremlin on 14 October, was set to examine the resilience of Russia's digital infrastructure
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EuropeTurkish police raided the Istanbul office of the pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV early Wednesday and a government-appointed trustee took control of the channel, with live broadcasts cut off in what the station called a "dawn raid." Halk TV said "hundreds of police" entered its headquarters, staff were barred from entering the building, and its live
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EuropeA massive Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure early Wednesday left more than 600,000 people without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, hours after he appealed to Kyiv's partners for better early warnings of incoming strikes. Zelensky said Russia launched more than 120 drones and 39 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv,
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