European farmers protested in Brussels on Wednesday against the EU-Mercosur free trade deal with South American countries, with farmers in neighboring France saying they would follow suit from early next week. Details by Shirli Sitbon. Source link
Japan’s foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Story by Yinka Oyetade. Source link
An Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday where the military said it targeted Hezbollah, hours after the Iran-backed group said it fired on Israeli bases around the city of Haifa. Details by Charlotte Hughes. Source link
In between settling scores with his former finance minister during an occasionally hot-tempered speech in the Bundestag this week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to take a conciliatory tone with the opposition. “My proposal, my appeal to this house: Where we are unified, let us act unified. It would be good for our country,” he told … Read more
Senegal on Sunday voted in parliamentary elections, with the new leaders aiming for a resounding majority to see through the promise of ambitious reform that swept them to power eight months ago. Details with FRANCE 24 correspondent in Dakar, Caitlin Kelly. Source link
A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. More information with Andrew Hilliar. Source link
Russia on Sunday launched a relentless aerial bombardment on Ukraine’s energy production and distribution facilities, firing 120 missiles and 90 drones across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Source link
Russia on Sunday pummeled Ukraine with one of the largest barrages of the grinding near-three-year war, Ukrainian officials said, forcing power cuts with fears of a precarious winter to come. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv. Source link
In September, Olaf Scholz brushed aside a journalist’s question about his legacy. “I think you should be wary of politicians who think about that before their appointment in office has ended,” he told Berlin’s Daily Mirror newspaper in response to the question of what he hoped one day would be written in the history books … Read more
With Germany’s famous Christmas Markets opening in the coming weeks, the country’s interior minister has called on police and local authorities to tighten security – including the enforcement of Germany’s new ban on the carrying of sharp weapons. “Breaches of the knife ban can be punished with fines of up to €10,000,” minister Nancy Faeser … Read more