China's Defense Ministry has responded to questions about a state media report that the country's newest-generation nuclear submarine took part in a strategic missile test. A ministry spokesperson said he was not aware of the specific situa
As part of the Baltic Defence Line, about 150 bunkers are planned along the border with Russia in Ida-Viru County. Around 50 of them will be built on private land, the minister said, according to the record of a parliamentary session.The Ba
Ethiopia has taken delivery of 12 Su-35 fighter jets from Russia and intends to acquire four S-400 air defense systems, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow. The arms deal comes as fighting has intensifi
Greece has been hit by fresh flash floods: heavy downpours turned streets into streams of water. The central part of the country suffered most, above all the Pelion peninsula in Thessaly. In places, water and electricity supplies were cut,
Two high-speed trains collided in Spain’s Toledo province on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people, according to Al Jazeera. The Independent put the toll at at least 69, and the search for survivors among the wrecked carriages was still goi
In a forest near the Lithuanian airfield of Paluknys, German troops are fixing mobile sensors to trees that pick up signals from Russian and Belarusian radars and radios. According to Reuters, this is part of the permanent German brigade in
A Victorian coroner has found that the death of Australian actor and stuntman Richard Norton, 75, resulted from complications of injecting unapproved peptide products, and has asked the country's medicines regulator to consider tighter rest
Opposition lawmakers in Albania stormed the country’s parliament in Tirana on Thursday, setting off flares and smoke bombs in an attempt to stop a vote on a new law governing the central bank, according to Al Jazeera. The attempt failed, an
French Interior Minister Nuñez has warned that evening protests on Saturday, 31 October, could turn into serious violence. Organizers have disguised calls to take to the streets at 8 p.m. in squares across the country as Halloween parties,
The death toll from Thursday's rock collapse at the entrance to the Göreme Open-Air Museum in Turkey's Cappadocia region has risen to three, Turkish officials said in the evening, and five people were injured. Our first report on the collap
Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the site of a planned Google datacenter in northern Finland, the Guardian and Al Jazeera reported. Authorities say Tuike Finland, a Google s
On the day of Serbia’s parliamentary election, President Aleksandar Vučić was preparing to refuse to recognise the results, according to sources cited by Britain’s The Times: about 4,000 police officers and 3,000 men dressed in black were s