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Officials at the UK Home Office admit during a parliamentary committee hearing that they do not know what has happened to 17,000 foreigners whose asylum applications have been withdrawn, the current backlog of processing asylum applications in the country is 122,000
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says they must not allow people to forget about the war there, that one already can see the consequences of the international community shifting because of the tragedy in the Middle East and expresses that Ukrainians understand that they also need to fight for attention
Romanian, Swedish citizen and yoga guru Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, arrested in France on charges of rape, human trafficking and kidnapping along with some 40 other cult members, 175 police officers participated in the raid and 26 women were released
In response to the European Commission proposing to create joint procurement of military equipment within the EU, Europe's largest arms producers, Germany, France, Italy and Sweden, are critical of the Commission taking responsibility at the expense of the nation's capitals, according to a leaked document
Poland's likely future prime minister Donald Tusk is considering putting central bank governor Adam Glapiński on trial for failing to curb inflation and current prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki says he will warn the IMF, World Bank and ECB that the independence of Poland's central bank is under threat
Davyd Arakhamia, high-ranking member of Volodymyr Zelenskyi's Servant of the People party, says on Ukrainian TV that Kiev could have ended the war after a month if they agreed to be neutral and not join NATO but that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised against, he is also saying that all other considerations were uninteresting and just rhetoric for Russia
Former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman writes letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after being sacked saying she only supported him because he promised specific action on immigration and reducing intersectionality in schools and says he has failed to deliver on every single one of the policies and that means that he is either incapable of it or that he never intended to keep the promises
Finland closes parts of border with Russia after increasing numbers of Africans and Arabs with incomplete documents apply for asylum and apparently use Russia as a transit country, President Sauli Niinistö says they are constantly reminded that Finland has joined NATO
Britain's Indian Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacks the country's Indian home secretary, Suella Braverman, after she writes op-ed about London police largely ignoring law-breaking pro-Palestinian protesters, criticized by London's Muslim mayor as well as Scotland's Muslim first minister, former prime minister David Cameron returns as a minister
1 850 police mobilized ahead of pro-Palestinian demonstration in London where 500 000 people are expected on Armistice Day on November 11, which is usually commemorated with a two-minute silence at monument The Cenotaph
Former Partido Popular party leader and one of the founders of the right-wing Vox party, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, was shot in the head in Madrid on Thursday and the Socialist PSOE signed an amnesty deal for Catalan separatist politicians to secure the presidency sparking seven days of major protests
The European Commission recommends starting accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova and the final decision to start the negotiations is taken in a vote on the 14th and 15th December in the European Council, which consists of the heads of state and government of the member states
Hennadii Chastiakov, assistant to Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, is killed while opening presents when a grenade explodes, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, he had come home with gifts from colleagues, one of which was a box of new Western grenades, and during an exchange with his 13-year-old son, one of these detonated, more grenades have been found
32,000 foreigners have so far this year arrived in the Canary Islands via boat, which is the highest level in 17 years, and nearly 15,000 have arrived during the month of October
Sketches by Michelangelo in a corridor under the Medici Chapel in Florence discovered in 1975 under two layers of plaster are being opened to the public for the first time, the artist is said to have hid there from the Medici Pope Clement VII, who sentenced him to death after he participated in revolt against the pope
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić dissolves parliament on Wednesday after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited on Tuesday and tried to get Kosovo and Serbia to agree if they both want to be considered serious candidates for the EU, announcing elections on December 17
German finance minister Christian Lindner rejects the idea of phasing out coal power by 2030 if the country lacks affordable alternatives and believes that the date does not matter for the climate regardless, as according to EU rules emissions that are reduced in Germany are allowed to be used in, for example, Poland
Vienna inaugurates EUR 1.8 million fountain featuring 33 abstract humanoid figures for the 150th anniversary of the city's modern water system, came in cheaper than budget
465 bombings against Dutch properties so far in 2023, twice as many as the whole of 2022, the country's police want an EU ban on Flashbangers, a type of fireworks that have been widely used in attacks
Brussels police chief, Michel Goovaerts, says that out of 585 arrested in September in the capital, 298 were in the country illegally, that it is not possible to send back Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians because the countries would rather get rid of them than get rich and that there neither is space or staff at the asylum centres
Italy's conservative and catholic prime minister Giorgia Meloni breaks up with her boyfriend of 10 years, journalist Andrea Giambruno, with whom she has a daughter, after he flirted with girls during a TV recording and told them about his affair when he thought the recording was off
With 32 percent of the votes, the Austrian party FPÖ is the country's largest party according to the latest opinion poll, the ruling Christian Democratic party ÖVP has halved its support from the highest figure in 2020 of 44 percent to 22 percent now, 55 percent of the population can imagine supporting a government with FPÖ while 35 percent against
Belgium's Minister of Justice Vincent van Quickenborne was asked by Tunisia in August 2022 to extradite Muslim Swedish murderer Abdesalam Lassoued but the case was never processed and now he is resigning on the grounds that he wants to take responsibility for what he believes is an unacceptable mistake and says that he wants to apologize to the victims and their loved ones and to the Swedish people
Alternative for Germany gets 18.4 and 15.8 percen of the votes in the elections in the federal states of Hesse and Bavaria respectively, which together make up a quarter of Germany's population, and the party gets 22-23 percent in the whole country in a new opinion poll
France bans pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the Louvre and Versailles are evacuated after bomb threats, 20-year-old Muslim Chechen kills French teacher in Arras almost three years to the day since teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by another Muslim from Chechnya in a suburb of Paris
Co-leader for Alternative for Germany, Tino Chrupalla, suffers anaphylactic shock and is taken to hospital after a suspected syringe attack during a rally in Ingolstadt ahead of Sunday's Bavarian election, days before the other Co-leader, Alice Weidel, and her family had been taken to safety after the security service received information about an impending attack
The son of the late Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25-year-old Pavel, is said to inherit his father's assets such as the private army, house in Saint Petersburg, nine joint-stock companies and shares in the catering company Concord, and prominent Wagner-linked Telegram channel announces that Pavel has taken command of the Wagner group, last week Vladimir Putin appointed the Kremlin loyalist as its successor
Lars Findsen, the former head of Denmark's foreign intelligence service, is charged with allegedly leaking state secrets when, according to whistleblowers who launched an internal investigation and recorded conversations over several years, he discussed the matter surrounding Edward Snowden's disclosure that the US is monitoring Internet traffic in Denmark with family and colleagues
Andrei "Sedoi" Troshev is asked by Vladimir Putin to oversee Wagner Group volunteers in Ukraine and the Kremlin confirms that he works for the Russian Ministry of Defense
Belarus has received 120,000 refugees from Ukraine since February 2022, of which just over 45,000 have arrived in 2023
Home video from the 90s in Raseborg in Finland shows Vladimir Putin on a representative trip playing table tennis, wearing blue adidas pants, fishing and a source present says that the character of the Russian leader was different from the others and that he was very restrictive when it came to alcohol and did not smoke cigarettes
Croatian authorities enter Liberland and destroy and remove property and Liberlanders are threatened with arrest if they interfere, when asked about a written notice or report they were told there is none and there will be none
Close to 300 schoolgirls are defying the ban on the Muslim abaya in French schools introduced on Monday and 67 of them refuse to change and are sent home, ten percent of the population of France are Muslims, most of whom come from North Africa
Ukrainian oligarch and backer of Zelensky's 2019 presidential campaign, Ihor Kolomoisky, is in custody pending authorities' investigation into fraud charges against him, the US State Department sanctioned him in 2021 on the grounds that his corrupt actions undermined the rule of law and the Ukrainian public's faith in their government's democratic institutions and public processes
Alternative for Germany becomes the largest party in the German federal state Saxony with 35 percent of the vote in a new survey commissioned by the local newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung, is now the largest in the polls in four out of five federal states from the former East Germany
Eight people stabbed, police bitten, 275 arrested and images circulates of black youths running with machetes during the immigrant festival Nothing Hill Carnival in London, UK
France's government plans to buy wine worth close to 200 million euros and then destroy it with the motive of raising the price of products so that wine producers can find sources of income, the alcohol will be recycled into disinfectants, cleaning products and perfumes
Afghan asylum seeker Sakhidad Ahadi, 25, is sentenced to 12 years in prison for two rapes of a 12-year-old Albanian girl who lived in the same asylum, the Queens Hotel in Crystal Palace in London, where the famous writer Emile Zola lived in the late 1800s, claimed in court that he thought she was 19 and his lawyer said that perceiving age need not be so easy for someone who grew up in mountainous Afghanistan
Ukrainian pilots are testing the Swedish Jas gripen according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference together with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), and the possibility for Ukraine to obtain the aircraft was discussed in detail during the meeting
Attempts at terrorist attacks in Sweden are likely according to the British Foreign Office's new guidelines for travel to the country, but point out that Swedish authorities have prevented several
Austria's foreign minister from 2017 to 2019, Karin Kneissl, plans to stay in the Russian small town of Petrushovo for the foreseeable future, saying that life there reminds her of growing up in Austria, she is known, among other things, for dancing with Putin in 2018 and her views on Zionism, immigration and Jean-Claude Junker led to a lot of media attention
The Italian government is forced to ease the terms of its announced additional tax on banks, the tax is supposed to be 40 percent of the banks' net interest income but after a fall in the stock market it was announced that the tax will be a maximum of 0.1 percent of assets
Not everyone who gets their asylum application rejected in Germany is sent home despite being notified to leave the country, and now Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is proposing to extend the detention period from the current 10 days to 28, saying that would give German authorities more time to prepare the expulsion
Ukraine and Croatia agree to use Croatian ports to export Ukrainian grain, however Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the main topic of the meeting was arms and that Croatia's support will be significant in relation to its total military budget
Unesco proposes to add Venice to the list of endangered world heritages unless the authorities act to protect the city from problems such as mass tourism and climate change, in 2021 cruise ships above a certain size were banned from docking on the recommendation of Unesco
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says attacks on Russian territory are inevitable, natural and justified after Moscow was attacked by drones early Sunday when two crashed into office buildings and Vnukovo airport was briefly closed
Three dead in residental building and two injured in nearby house in shooting outside Augsburg in Bavaria in Germany and 64-year-old suspect arrested in his car without resistance
Ukraine carries out drone attacks against Moscow and the Crimean peninsula according to Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Crimean leader Sergei Aksionov respectively, something Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for, no casualties or major destruction reported
Spokesman for the fishermen on the island of Lampedusa in Italy, Salvatore Martello, says it is clear that the two ships that connect the Pelagie Islands with the rest of Sicily have become taxis for migrants and no longer manage to ensure regular transport of fish and ordinary passengers, the small island of 6,000 inhabitants had 3,000 migrants on board at the day of the protests
Cathedral from the 19th century in Odessa in Ukraine destroyed in Russian missile attacks early Sunday morning, according to Ukraine 22 people have been injured and one dead
The city of Amsterdam decides to close the port to cruise ships to overcome the problems of tourism together with emissions and is now investigating how to implement the decision, the city expects this year 18 million visitors who stay at least one night
Finland revokes the permit for the Russian consulate in Turku in response to Russia's closure of the Finnish consulate general in Saint Petersburg from October this year, and believes that Russia's decision was disproportionate to Finland's announced expulsions, a decision regarding the consulate in Åland has not been taken