Europe

Vladimir Putin’s Russia bombed a shopping center in kyiv on Sunday as the G7 summit in Germany opened. This increases concerns as the NATO summit approaches. In Germany, G7 leaders unanimously condemned the bombardment of a shopping center in the Ukrainian capital by the Russian army. “The G7 summit must …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has lifted a ban on a European-backed rights group, nearly 18 months after its suspension, the presidency said in a statement. Yoweri Museveni said the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) – backed by the European Union, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and other states – could reopen as long …

British police have arrested two Nigerian nationals, accused of trying to bring a child to the UK to harvest his organs, the BBC reported. Police in London said the man and woman – Beatrice and Ike Ekweremadu – had been remanded in custody and would appear in court later on …

After disappointing results for his parliamentary group in the last legislative elections, French President Emmanuel Macron rejects the hypothesis of a possible government of national unity. In a speech of about eight minutes, Mr Macron clearly rejected the idea of possible composition of a government of national unity. He intends …

Tetraplegic for 12 years, a 40-year-old died peacefully at home after receiving the lethal drug and a self-injection device in Italy, a first in the country. The Luca Coscioni Association, which campaigns for the right to assisted suicide and euthanasia, has received funds to provide this 40-year-old with the device …

Egypt, Israel and the European Union on Wednesday signed a natural gas deal in Cairo as Europe scrambles to cobble together an energy strategy to replace the Russian supplies it has relied on for decades, media reported. “This will contribute to our energy security. And we are building infrastructure fit …

Ukraine has lost a quarter of its cultivable land due to the Russian occupation of certain regions, in the south and east, its Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday. “Despite the loss of 25% of cultivable land, the structure of the crops sown this year is more than sufficient to …

African Union chairman, Senegalese President Macky Sall has urged Ukraine to remove mines from the port of Odessa to ease grain exports. Mr Sall said this in an interview with French media outlets, RFI and France 24. He added that he had received assurances from President Vladimir Putin that Russia …

In a letter sent to the United Nations, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, officially requested that his country be called Türkiye and no Turkey. Turkey took action to officially change its name with the letter deposited at the United Nations by the head of Turkish diplomacy. According to Anadolu Agency, …

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will give his Senegalese counterpart an “exhaustive” explanation as to what is happening to Ukrainian grain when the two meet later on Friday, Reuters reports the Kremlin as saying. Senegalese President Macky Sall, acting as African Union chairman, is in Russia to discuss the food crisis …