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The European Court of Human Rights rejects Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu's bid to reinstate the presidential election result where he won but was accused of benefitting from a booster campaign involving TikTok, the court rules the case is not within its scope, new election to take place on May 4, right-wing Georgescu currently leading in the polls

EU bought record 837,300 metric tons of liquefied natural gas from Russia in the first 15 days of 2025, up from 760,100 tons during the same period last year, LNG analyst Charles Costerousse says there's been a cold spell and wind power generation hasn't been at its highest level

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wins the Charlemagne Prize for contributions to European unity, is praised for her services to the unity of EU member states, leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, decisive stance against Russia and commitment to EU's Green Deal, says she is deeply touched and that the prize is a reliable anchor in turbulent times

Two Just Stop Oil activists arrested for spray-painting Charles Darwin's grave inside Westminster Abbey, the church's spokesperson says they are taking immediate action and that they do not anticipate that there will be any permanent damage

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico calls Ukraine unreliable and says that Volodymyr Zelensky's begging and blackmailing has to stop, says solutions that Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal had agreed to have been thwarted where Slovakia could either receive Azerbaijani gas or allow Slovak state-owned energy supplier to set up a subsidiary on the Russian-Ukrainian border so that gas could be transported via Ukraine

Ukraine officially recognizes the Russian Empire's genocide against the Circassian people during the Caucasian War of 1817–1864, settlements were destroyed and starved by Russian forces before over 1.5 million Circassians were forcibly deported to the Ottoman Empire with nearly half perishing during the journey, around 750,000 Circassians today live in their historical homeland while around 3 million reside in the diaspora primarily in Turkey and Jordan

Blood and Honour becomes the first right-wing group to have its assets frozen by the UK government, the group which was formed in 1987 by Skrewdriver singer Ian Stuart due to him finding National Front to mainstream is accused of being involved in terrorist activities, affiliate groups like security faction Combat 18 and online radio station 28 Radio also affected by the asset freeze

Czech police ask parliament to remove Freedom and Direct Democracy leader Tomio Okamura's immunity to prosecute him for eurocritic poster where an African man holds a blood-stained knife alongside the caption "Deficiencies in healthcare will not be solved by imported 'surgeons'", Okamura says he reacted to the government's policy and to the EU migration pact and that his movement is acting very leniently compared to attacks by migrants across Europe

165 arrests for sexual offences per 100,000 of the foreign nationals' population in Britain as compared to 48 for British citizens between January and October 2024, made up 9% of the population but accounted for 16% of all arrests, Albanians most frequently arrested with 210 per 100,000 ahead of Afghans with 107 and Iraqis with 93, Romanians accounted for the most arrests regarding all crimes at 11,678, according to analysis by the Centre for Migration Control using official data

Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) receives a mandate to try to form a new government after attempts to form a governing alliance without them failed but the conservative Austrian People's Party then signaled that it might be open to working with FPÖ, the anti-immigration and eurosceptic party which opposes sanctions against Russia was the largest party last election with 28.8% but was shut out as all parties refused to work with them, President Alexander Van der Bellen says he did not take this step lightly

British Health Secretary Wes Streeting calls Elon Musk's criticism regarding the government's response to child rape gangs that for decades abused mainly white girls in dozens of towns misinformed but adds that they are willing to work with him if he rolls his sleeves up, Musk accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to bring the gangs to justice when he led the Crown Prosecution Service and calls for prison time for MP Jess Phillips who rejected requests for a national inquiry

Widespread debate regarding fireworks in Germany after five deaths in the country and 400 arrests in Berlin alone where 30 police officers were injured during New Year's Eve, bans on bullet bombs as well as harsher sentences for rioters attacking emergency workers among discussed measures, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says law imposing five years in prison for luring emergency service personnel into ambushes should be adopted before the national elections in February

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede uses his New Year speech to promote independence from Denmark, says history and current conditions have shown that the cooperation has not succeeded in creating full equality and that it is now time to remove the shackles of colonialism, suggests independence referendum along with the parliamentary elections in April

All industries except food production forced to close in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region after Ukraine shut down Russian gas supplies, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Obolonik says that the problem is so extensive that they risk having irreversible changes where enterprises will lose their ability to start up

Germany has outstanding arrest warrants against 189 members of far-right groups Reichsbürger or Selbstverwalter that do not recognize the modern German state, 20 of the warrants are for violent political crime while the majority is for "the area of general criminality without political motivation"

Bulgaria and Romania celebrate their new full membership in the Schengen Area, means their populations can travel through almost all of EU without identity documents or controls but random checks will be carried out focusing on larger vehicles during the first six months to deter criminal activities, hopes being raised that the free travel will ease the historically rocky relationship between Hungary and Romania

Hungary loses EUR 1.04 billion from EU funds under the conditionality mechanism due to not meeting 2022 EU Council requirements regarding transparency in spending EU funds and mechanisms to prevent corruption, risks losing another EUR 1.1 billion by the end of 2025 in the same manner, has also lost access to EUR 10 billion in the EU National Recovery Plan

85-year-old German woman loses ownership to property sold under duress by Jews in 1939, the property that is valued at USD 1.6 million will be seized by the state and transferred to the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the woman says that she has lived her whole life in the house and that she does not know where she and her son will go, Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor says they are willing to work out an arrangement where the woman stays as a tenant

At least three dead and seven in intensive care after boat with more than 50 migrants got in trouble off the French coast of Calais, Sangatte Mayor Guy Allemand says it's crossing after crossing without any let-up, 76 people have died attempting to cross the English Channel during the year

Slovakia threatens to halt electricity supplies if Ukraine ends Russian gas transit after January 1, says alternative arrangements could cost the country an additional EUR 220 million in transit fees

Elon Musk writes that Germany is on the brink of economic and cultural collapse and that Alternative for Germany is the last spark of hope in an opinion piece in Die Welt, adds that the party represents a political realism that resonates with many Germans who feel their concerns are ignored by the establishment, the newspaper's opinion editor Eva Marie Kogel submits her resignation due to the piece being posted

France rescues 107 people trying to cross to UK in 12 rescue operations on Christmas Day, 451 people on 11 boats managed to make it across during the day according to the UK Home Office

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg announces abdication in Christmas Speech, says he looks back with gratitude and humility on quarter century where the country made much progress and he was a part of the journey along with Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, steps down officially on October 3 2025 where his 43-year-old son Guillaume accesses the throne

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says US and Europe has spent EUR 300 billion on the Ukraine war which would have been enough to lifted all the Balkans to the level of European development or build an absolutely new European defense system but that these funds were burned, describes the Ukraine situation as apocalyptic and says the war will end in 2025 either through peace negotiations or the destruction of one side

Poland introduces mandatory Education for Safety lessons where pupils from 14 years of age will learn shooting and first aid among other things to be able to handle basic tactical rescue and threats caused by warfare

Tense situation in Greece as the number of migrant child arrivals more than doubles year on year in 2024, migrant activist Sofia Kouvelaki says large numbers arrived along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete and that recent arrivals included exceptionally young children from Syria and Egypt, Greece's Migration Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos says the border pressure is likely to continue in 2025

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico threatens serious conflict and reciprocal measures if Ukraine stops the gas transit, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić says that as far as he knows Fico will meet with Putin on Monday

Italy's former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini acquitted in a Sicily court of kidnapping where he risked six years in prison for preventing a migrant rescue ship with 160 migrants from docking in 2019, comments that he was being attacked by communist judges pushing a left-wing agenda and that he is proud of having defended his country, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni comments that Salvini has the solidarity of the entire government and Elon Musk posted on X during Thursday that it is crazy that Salvini is being tried for defending Italy

French authorities arrest 95 people in connection to an international child pornography ring, 36 of the arrested already known to the police for previous pedophilia crimes, all suspects are men between the ages of 18 and 74 except for one 16-year-old

At least 5 killed and 60 wounded after a 50-year-old Saudi doctor rammed his car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany during Friday evening, viewed as a deliberate attack

25-year-old Iraqi Shahraban K sentenced to life in prison in a German court for the murder of her doppelganger in a scheme to fake her death in 2022, found a 23-year-old woman via social media and offered her free beauty care to then stab her 56 times and place her in her car in acquaintance with a 26-year-old man who is also sentenced to life in prison

Germany changes its Basic Law to protect the Federal Constitutional Court from the growing right-wing Alternative for Germany, fixes the number of judges as well as terms and maximum age and gives the Upper House the power to appoint judges if the Lower House can't reach 2/3 majority, Social Democrat Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says that the law ensures that democracy enemies don't have a gateway to the judicial system

Ukraine says its security service killed Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant with a scooter bomb outside an apartment building in Moscow according to an anonymous SBU source to BBC, the killing followed the day after the SBU charged Kirillov in absentia for mass use of banned chemical weapons

Thousands of people feared dead after cyclone Chido with winds above 220 kilometers per hour hit France's territory of Mayotte outside Madagascar, locals compare the damage to nuclear war, 100,000 illegal immigrants live in the territory which is the poorest place in the EU

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses no-confidence vote with 207 votes where 367 were needed, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier now to decide whether to dissolve parliament where a snap election must be held within 60 days, polls indicating right-wing shift as Christian Democratic Union which have promised a fundamental change in migration policy tops the polls with 33% ahead of right-wing Alternative for Germany with 17%

At least five people killed in shootings in and around a French migrant camp outside Dunkirk, 22-year-old French national arrested after handing himself to the police, motive under investigation, two of the victims were Kurds who were rescued by French authorities after they along with 83 others tried crossing the English Channel during Saturday

Ukrainian man has Austrian citizenship revoked over refusal to sing the national anthem at the naturalization ceremony, Lower Austria State Vice-President Udo Landbauer says that citizenship is not a gift but an award that requires respect and identification with Austria, 15,824 people obtained Austrian citizenship between January and September 2024 of which one-fifth were born in the country

53-year-old former Manchester City football pro Mikheil Kavelashvili new Georgian President with 224 out of 225 votes in the electoral college, criticized by the opposition for anti-Western rhetoric and laws cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights, outgoing pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili says she considers the Parliament and thus the inauguration illegitimate and that she vows to stay on after her term ends on Monday

UK government makes the emergency ban on puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria indefinite, only exception is for use in clinical trials which will commence during 2025, the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM), which has provided expert advice to the government, comments that continued prescription of puberty blockers to children constitutes an unacceptable safety risk

Denmark moves to allow for deporting all immigrants that are sentenced to prison no matter the seriousness of the crime nor the time lived in the country, immigration and integration minister Kaare Dybvad Bek says foreigners are overrepresented especially in serious crimes which can't be accepted and that every deported foreign criminal is a victory for the country and for the rule of law, the law is expected to take effect in July 2025

Pope Francis approves LGBT+ pilgrimage as part of Jubilee 2025 celebrations, the pilgrimage title will be "Church: Home for All, LGBT+ Christians and Other Existential Frontiers" and be led chiefly by Italian gay rights group Tenda di Gionata which has previously depicted Jesus Christ as a transsexual

Planned terror attack on Christmas market in Bavaria foiled by police after tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency, 37-year-old Iraqi asylum-seeker arrested, the man shared Islamic State propaganda on social media and planned on driving a car through the Augsburg market

Romanian presidential election invalidated by Supreme Court, Calin Georgescu, who unexpectedly won the most votes, has been singled out for violating campaign finance laws and has been accused of being part of a Russian influence operation

Muhammad is the most popular boys' baby name in England and Wales for the first time, has been in the top 10 since 2016 but has now overtaken Noah, 4661 Muhammads born in the countries during 2023 with Mohammed in 28th place with 1601 and Mohammad in 68th with 835

France's government collapses as Prime Minister Michel Barnier loses no-confidence vote, Barnier whose term spanned 90 days on will become the shortest-lived prime minister in the history of the modern French republic said ahead of the vote that he cannot accept the idea that institutional destabilization could be the objective that brings together a majority of lawmakers at a moment when our country faces a deep moral, economic, financial and civic crisis, the no-confidence vote followed Barnier's decision to force through an austere budget without parliamentary support

Polish PM Donald Tusk condemns climate activist road blockades and pledges crackdown, Interior minister Tomasz Siemoniak also condemns the activists' "completely irresponsible and scandalous behaviour" and says new regulations could be introduced and that the road blocks will be fought ruthlessly

Denmark reinstates 1915 ban on flying foreign flags without special permission, Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard says the Dannebrog is the most important national symbol and should enjoy a very special status, exceptions made for the Nordic countries, Germany, Greenland and the Faroe Islands as well as allowances for specific contexts like sporting events and demonstrations

Over 100 000 soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian army, widespread exhaustion and demoralization among the soldiers where interviewed deserters say it is 50 Russian shells fired for each Ukrainian one and that the war seems unwinnable

EU will provide Ukraine an additional EUR 4.2 billion in December to support the country's budget and will start transferring EUR 1.5 billion monthly from frozen Russian assets starting in January 2025, the new President of the European Council António Costa says the money can be used for military purposes and adds that the EU is working on a 15th package of sanctions against Russia

The EU simplifies the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the EU Taxonomy, the decision is reported as a decisive pivot away from the last years' Green Deal program and to reflect rising skepticism about Europe's environmental regulations, the decision follows days after the re-election of Donald Trump who has promised to again withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and slash regulation

Romanian ultranationalist Călin Georgescu wins first-round in the presidential elections with 23% of the vote, first time in the country's 35-year post-communist history that the Social Democratic Party PSD does not have a candidate in the second round, Georgescu who campaigned on reducing reliance on imports, supporting farmers and increasing the domestic production of food and energy has also argued against the EU and NATO and claims the Ukraine wars is manipulated by American military companies faces liberal Elena Lasconi in the runoff

Berlin's top police chief urges Jews and homosexuals to hide their identities when in parts of the city dominated by Arabs, as the latter sympathize with terrorists and are often openly hostile to Jews

Italian courts block government plan to send migrants to Albania instead of dealing with them on Italian soil, two groups of migrants have been sent back to Italy shortly after arriving in Albania

Violent clashes in Amsterdam after soccer match between Israeli and Dutch teams, several people taken to hospital and dozens arrested by police, country's prime minister condemns what he calls anti-Semitic attacks while others point out that Israeli hooligans provoked and initiated violence

Severe floods in Spain cause more than 200 deaths, Spaniards' anger directed at the state for inadequate aid efforts and royal couple has mud thrown at them while visiting disaster area

18-year-old Axel Rudakubana charged for the high-profile murders of nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, six-year-old Bebe King and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe in Southport, England, which caused protests throughout the country, is suspected of terrorist offenses as he downloaded manual from al-Qaeda and is said to have tried to produce the nerve agent ricin

More than 75 percent of middle school students in Vienna, Austria do not have German as their mother tongue, and in some districts such as Margareten, Hernals and Alsergrund, the percentage is over 90 percent, according to data from Statistics Austria

Activist Tommy Robinson is arrested on Friday and sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court for breaching a previous conviction for defamation, the following day a large demonstration is held in London in support of him

The Social Democrats SPD and Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW in Brandenburg, Germany publish a joint statement in which a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war is promoted, comes as a result of demands from Wagenknecht for coalition talks between the parties to begin

Both the incumbent party and the pro-EU opposition party in Georgia claim victory in Saturday's parliamentary elections, the official election commission says Georgian Dream with party leader Bidzina Ivanishvili won 54.8 percent of the vote, while election observers claim the result does not reflect the will of the people

UN Secretary-General António Guterres intended to travel to Ukraine after attending the BRICS summit in Kazan attended by Vladimir Putin, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refuses to meet him

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells reporters that a Russian end to attacks on energy infrastructure and cargo ships could be a path to peace, until now he has maintained that he will not negotiate with Russia as long as Vladimir Putin is in power

Yes to amending the constitution so that Moldova can join the EU gets 50.46 percent of the votes and incumbent President Maia Sandu gets 41 percent in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, Sandu who is pro-EU denounces the narrow results as a product of foreign interference

The 16 foreigners who were the first to be sent to Albania from Italy under a new detention scheme have now been sent back to Italy after judges ruled that their home countries of Bangladesh and Egypt were not safe enough, citing rulings by the European Court of Justice that found that non-EU countries could not be classified as safe unless their entire territory is considered safe

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says soldiers from North Korea have joined the Russian side in the war, the same claim was made by the South Korean government last week

The Czech capital Prague bans organized pub crawls between 22:00 and 06:00 to reduce disorder in the city, but the Prague Pub Crawl company says the decision is just a populist move to cover up the city's leadership's inability to deal with real problems

Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers on a trip to Moldova ahead of the country's presidential election and referendum on future EU membership on October 20, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna says the country is making significant progress towards EU membership and believes the people of Moldova need the EU's support to counter Russia's ongoing and intensified hybrid attacks and disinformation

Finland's first openly gay professional hockey player, 29-year-old Janne Puhakka, is shot dead with a hunting rifle by his 66-year-old Norwegian ex-boyfriend Rolf Nordmo after the relationship ended, the couple started dating secretly when Puhakka was 19 and he came out as gay after the end of his career in 2018

The Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Michael Collins, argues that Malta's sale of citizenship does not contravene the EU constitution, as the European Commission has claimed, and recommends the European Court of Justice to drop the case

Poland is setting up, 49 integration centers, funded by EU, where immigrants can take language courses, get legal help and psychological support, the country's current Prime Minister Donald Tusk was the former president of the European Council

42-year-old Nigerian Lucky Francis, who was brought back to Denmark to face trial after attacking a Danish helicopter in the Gulf of Guinea in 2021 and as a result of being fired upon had one of his legs amputated, escapes sentence due to the injury, receives asylum in the country and, according to reports, has cost taxpayers over EUR 550,000

Around 200 German police officers raid neo-Nazi martial arts event in Hachenburg in Rhineland-Palatinate for several hours, confiscate items that indicate right-wing extremist sentiments and are now investigating whether possession of these could be punishable, no one arrested and several minors said to have participated, Interior Minister Michael Ebling says the operation sends a clear signal and that their zero-tolerance policy towards the enemies of the constitution is not negotiable

Ukraine will not extend its agreement with Russia on the transit of natural gas via Ukraine to Europe which expires in 2024, is announced by Prime Minister Denys Sjmyhal during press conference with gas importer Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico

The European Commission is suing Hungary over legislation intended to defend the country against undue political influence by foreign entities that came into force in December 2023, saying the law violates several EU rules and principles

Every chicken in the UK must be registered with the state from October 1st, citing improved preparedness for avian flu and other infectious diseases

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in court together with 26 other party members accused of misuse of EU funds by fabricating employees of the EU Parliament with whose salaries they financed domestic political activities, threatened with up to ten years in prison, five-year ban on political assignments but says nothing will stop her from standing in the upcoming presidential election

The anti-immigration Freedom Party, FPÖ, with party leader Herbert Kickl, becomes the largest party in Austria with 28.8 percent of the vote after Sunday's parliamentary elections, unclear how the government will be formed

Iceland's Justice Minister Gudrún Hafsteinsdóttir says gang criminals are sent from Sweden to commit crimes in the country, citing arson attack on police car in August 2023, announces stricter border controls

Ukraine intends to join all political statements of the EU without exception, according to the country's foreign ministry, and Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha says they expect Ukraine's ambassadors to be invited to regular meetings with ambassadors from EU member states and to become an integral part of these diplomatic communities

The prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama, unexpectedly announces that a state for the Muslim Sufi order Bektashi will be established in the country's capital Tirana, the state is intended to be based on the model of the Vatican City and will have an area of 27 hectares with its own borders, passports and administration, in the Albanian constitution it is stated that the state is unitary and indivisible

Alternative for Germany comes in second place with 29.2 percent of the vote after the Social Democrats' 30.9 percent in the federal election on Sunday in Brandenburg, Sahra Wagenknecht's party gets 13.5 percent and the Christian Democrats 12.1

The King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander says during a speech at the opening of the parliament that migration is an acute concern and is due to excessive regulations that are not adapted to reality, that things we should be able to take for granted such as a home of our own, a decent income and a safe and familiar neighborhood is increasingly drifting out of reach, creating a sense of insecurity that erodes people's independence and causes resentment

Polar bear is for the first time since 2016 spotted in Iceland after specimen makes its way from Greenland on ice floes and rummage through garbage outside remote cabin where old lady is, being shot

One dead and one injured in knife attack carried out by perpetrator shouting “Allahu Akbar” in underground car park and on bridge in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday

Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on trial over his August 2019 decision to deny the Spanish organization Proactiva Open Arms the disembarkation of 147 foreigners at the port of the Italian island of Lampedusa, prosecutors are seeking six years in prison, prompting Salvini to say that defending Italy is not a crime and that he will never give up

The Norwegian crown princess's son from a previous marriage, 27-year-old Marius Borg Høiby, arrested again, this time for violating the restraining order against his ex-girlfriend who he was previously arrested for assaulting, defender Øyvind Bratlien claims the evidence for the new arrest is thin and accuses the police of reverse discrimination

French EU Commissioner Thierry Breton quits in protest against Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, among other things pushed for the introduction of greater regulations such as the Digital Services Act and threatened X in an open letter before Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump on the platform

Britain's release of roughly 2,000 prisoners after serving 40 percent of their time, citing overcrowded prisons, comes into force on Tuesday and 31-year-old Amari Ward assaults a woman within an hour of release

Germany makes it easier for Kenyans to come to the country and a labor agreement is signed by Chancellor Olaf Schulz and Kenyan President William Ruto, after welcoming five bus drivers from the African country, Schleswig-Holstein's transport minister Claus Ruhe Madsen says the country needs hard-working hands and clever minds

Germany introduces border controls with its neighboring countries with reference to the country's security according to a announcement from the country's interior minister Nancy Faeser to the European Commission after a crisis meeting on immigration with the Christian Democrats and local representatives, Austria will not allow any returnees according to Foreign Minister Gerhard Karner who refers to the law

French president appoints 73-year-old right-centrist Michel Barnier, former foreign minister and EU’s Brexit negotiator, as prime minister two months after parliamentary election, leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon reacts with saying the election was stolen from the French people

The Labor government in Great Britain presents a bill that says posts in the upper house of parliament, the House of Lord, should not be inherited, currently concerns 92 people who were exempted in 1999 when the 700-year-old system first was reformed

French Ministry of Defense announces purchase of military equipment for Ukraine for 300 million euros as part of the revenues on the 1.4 billion euros the EU received from frozen Russian assets

During a press conference, Hungarian State Secretary Bence Retvari shows off yellow buses that he says can be used to bus migrants to Brussels for free if the EU forces the country to accept illegal immigrants, in September Hungary missed the payment of a fine of 200 million euros decided by the European Court of Justice

Irish MMA-star Conor McGregor indicates in post on X that he intends to run for president in the upcoming 2025 election, says the country is run by charlatans and thieves and that he is prepared to dissolve parliament

Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba is resigning on Wednesday and earlier this week the country's Minister of Justice, the Minister of Enviroment as well as the Minister of Strategic Industries resigned, he has previously said that there are two reasons for him to resign and that would be if the president asks him or if there would be a fundamental contradiction in the foreign policy that he believes it is impossible to work with

Alternative for Germany becomes the largest party in the federal election in the state of Thuringia with 32.8 percent of the vote, the left-wing party Die Linke drops from 31 percent of the vote in the previous election to 13 percent while Die Linke defector Sahra Wagenknecht gets 15.8 percent, a similar trend in the elections in Saxony as well

27-year-old Somali stabs 46-year-old man in the neck outside grocery store in Waltershausen, Germany after being told by victim to stop deliberately coughing on customers, 30 police arrest the foreigner who has previous convictions

Chairman of Germany's second largest police union, Manuel Ostermann, says the country has changed for the worse, that they have a huge problem with knife crime, that the migration crisis is primarily a crime crisis, that Islamists pose the greatest threat to the life and limb of the inhabitants and that it is now time to recognize the reality and implement clear measures against this security policy madness

Two dead after violent crimes on two separate occasions during the Notting Hill Carnival in London which celebrates Afro-Caribbean culture and is visited by a million people annually, this year eight people were stabbed and more than 300 arrested