Category: News Desk

Fri 10 January 2025: Ukraine’s Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it has secured 3 billion euros (about 3.09 billion U.S. dollars) from the European Union (EU) backed by the revenues of the frozen Russian assets. The funds are part of the EU’s contribution to the Group of Seven (G7) Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine […]

Fri 10 January 2025: Thousands of homes have been destroyed by nearly a half-dozen wildfires tearing through Los Angeles communities Thursday evening as the grim death toll was confirmed to have risen to 10. The remains of two victims of the Palisades Fire were found as authorities continue their search, multiple news outlets quoted the […]

Fri 10 January 2025: Europena Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says that Greenland’s sovereignty must be respected. Russia is closely monitoring Donald Trump’s territorial claims to Greenland, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said, after the US president-elect refused to rule out the possibility of using military force to acquire the Danish territory. “We are […]

Thu 09 January 2025: The number of right-wing extremist crimes in Germany reached a new high last year, local media reported on Monday. By Nov. 30, 2024, police had registered 33,963 ​​“politically motivated, right-wing crimes,” reported the RND media group, citing a response from the Interior Ministry to an inquiry by the parliamentary fraction of […]

Thu 09 January 2025: Headteachers have warned that schools and colleges will be forced to make cuts if costs continue to outstrip the growth in school funding. In their annual report on education spending in England, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that mainstream school funding per pupil will grow by 2.8% in cash terms […]

Thu 09 January 2025: The number of untraceable privately-made “ghost guns” recovered at crime scenes surged nearly 1,600% between 2017 and 2023, according to the results of a new federal gun trafficking study released on Wednesday. The study’s results, announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), come after President Joe Biden and Attorney […]

Thu 09 January 2025: Germany on Thursday dismissed efforts by US President-elect Donald Trump to press NATO members to spend a staggering 5% of the gross domestic product on defense – more than double the military pact’s current spending target. “What Donald Trump is proposing is unrealistic. We won’t end up with 5%,” Vice Chancellor […]