Europe

Digital Markets Act: Tech titans yield to new EU rules before March deadline

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb 23, 2024 (AFP) - 2024 will be a year of change for the world's biggest tech companies…

Underfunded & under-maintained: Eiffel tower workers strike for repairs, fair treatment

France's iconic Eiffel Tower was closed for a fourth day on Thursday as employees extended a strike over the monument's…

US to level more sanctions as Russia claims fresh gains in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine, Feb 23, 2024 (AFP) - The United States plans to impose sanctions Friday on more than 500 targets…

UK police seize record 5.7 tonnes of cocaine hidden in bananas

British police said Friday that they had made what is believed to be its biggest ever seizure of serious drugs.…

“They’re blackmailing me”: Kremlin pressures Navalny’s mother for “secret burial”

The mother of Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's main opponent who died in an Arctic prison last week, said…

4 dead as fire engulfs residential block in Spain’s Valencia

VALENCIA, Spain, Feb 23, 2024 (AFP) - At least four people have died in a huge fire that gutted a…

Kyiv says Russia used N. Korean missiles in deadly attacks on Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) - The Ukrainian security service (SBU) said Thursday it had established that Russia had…

Portugal’s Bobi loses oldest dog title

LISBON, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) - Bobi, previously crowned the world's oldest dog, has lost his title due to inconclusive…

Pupils injured in knife attack at German school, suspect detained

  BERLIN, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) - A secondary school pupil stabbed several classmates before turning the knife on himself…

Russian leader Vladimir Putin took ride on supersonic bomber, state TV says

  MOSCOW, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin took a test ride on a supersonic military plane…

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