The German chancellor spoke after laying a white flower at a makeshift memorial in the western German city. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers on Monday as he visited the … Read More
The arrest of Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov is part of a broader investigation into the social media app that is accused of allowing criminal activity to run rampant while failing to reliably cooperate with law enforcement, French prosecutors said. Durov, … Read More
Lithuania has begun constructing a military campus that will house up to 4,000 German troops in Rūdninkai, a southeastern region of the Baltic country near the border with Belarus, which shares close ties with Russia. The cost of project is … Read More
Denmark is strengthening its border controls with neighboring Sweden following a string of violent crimes involving Swedish gangs in the Danish capital. The police are increasing their inspections on trains crossing the Oresund Bridge that connects Copenhagen with Malmo, Sweden’s … Read More
VALEC, Czech Republic, Aug 9 (Reuters) – As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting flagging enlistment numbers crawl through forest scrub carrying combat rifles and learning proper shooting positions. … Read More
PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) – Vandals sabotaged France’s telecoms networks overnight, piling pressure on French security services trying to secure the Olympics after authorities said they suspected left-wing groups of attacking rail lines ahead of the opening ceremony in Paris. … Read More
Everything was in place. Streets in the centre of Paris have been blocked off, metro stations closed and thousands of police, soldiers and other guards deployed to maintain security on the big showpiece day to kick off the Olympics. But … Read More
BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance’s military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous … Read More
PARIS, July 23 (Reuters) – French security services have been probing migrant communities from former Soviet republics in an effort to safeguard the Olympics from the ISIS-K militant group, the interior minister said, confirming a Reuters report published last week. … Read More
Greens emerge as kingmakers as von der Leyen vows to keep the centrist coalition strong. Pro-European forces celebrated the comfortable re-election of Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg’s European Parliament on Thursday. Von der Leyen relied mainly on allies to … Read More