Vice Admiral Peter Hudson, vice chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, said he was honoured the organisation had delivered the project and grateful for the presence of Princess Anne. “[In the cemetery around us lie nearly 5,000 German and Austrian soldiers, the cemetery next door, another 350 personnel,” he …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a new acting prosecutor general, after the predecessor resigned over an anti-corruption investigation. Anton Kovalskyi, 42, was appointed on Thursday to replace Ruslan Kravchenko, who stood down last week after searches of his offices by Ukrainian anti-corruption officials related to illegal call centres in …

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has resigned after his ruling right-wing bloc was narrowly defeated by the centre-left opposition in the country’s general election. He made the announcement in a post on X on Thursday afternoon, after preliminary votes from Sunday’s election showed about 50,000 votes separated the two blocs …

In return, Mexico has agreed to lend another priceless document, the Codex Boturini, to France for display there. The pictograms in the Codex Boturini narrate the story of the migration of the Aztecs, also known as Mexica, from their ancestral homeland to the shores of Lake Texcoco, where they built …

The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation’s chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers – all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in “listening ​and taking political action, not in …

The former president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of war crimes. A hearing at The Hague on Wednesday sentenced the 58-year-old for crimes during Kosovo’s independence war against Serbia in the 1990s, in which more than 10,000 people died. …

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has accused Russia of plotting to murder Ukrainian allies in the US and Europe. In a statement on Tuesday, the DoJ charged five men allegedly connected to the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS). The men are accused of paying, or trying to pay, people in …

French former minister Rachida Dati has gone on trial in Paris for corruption, accused of taking money from Renault-Nissan in return for political influence. Dati, 61, who was justice minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy and culture minister under Emmanuel Macron, is known to have been paid €900,000 (£770,000) by …

Von der Leyen told the EU’s State of the Union address that the bloc and Canada “see the world with the same eyes”, including on topics ranging from AI, to climate change and geopolitics. “And we have stood together: on Ukraine, on defence, on raw materials and on supply chains. …

Turkish police have arrested dozens of people as part of the government’s recent crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and venues. The protesters were detained as they gathered on Tuesday outside Istanbul’s main courthouse. They were calling for the release of another group of LGBTQ+ activists, who were arrested over the weekend …

Yet – in public – Europe’s leaders have remained cautiously quiet. Though not, it seems, out of any lack of support for Mark Carney. A number of Europe’s leaders, like Finland’s president – but also French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, herself once a true Trump …

All flights have been suspended from one of Italy’s busiest airports because of volcanic ash released from nearby Mount Etna. It is the second time in recent months that Catania International Airport, on the island of Sicily, has stopped flights due to emissions from Etna, which is Europe’s tallest active …

Denmark has accused a Russian warship of firing two emergency flares at one of its helicopters while it was tracking the vessel in the Baltic Sea. The Danish government has summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident, which it said happened during a “routine” monitoring operation on Monday. Prime Minister …

Kristersson has been supported in government by the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), which have neo-Nazi roots. Exit polls suggested the party which entered parliament in 2010 would lose support for the first time. Sweden has two major political blocs featuring four parties on the right and four on the left …

Police in Turkey have detained 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists, officials say. Raids took place in 12 provinces over the weekend as part of a campaign dubbed “My Family is Safe” that the Turkish government says has been designed …

Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said her family’s flat has been destroyed in a Russian aerial strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa. “This is what the ‘Russian world’ looks like. A direct hit by a Kalibr cruise missile,” she wrote on social media, showing a photo of …

Céline Dion greeted fans today as she left her hotel, hours before she kicked off her comeback concert in Paris. The Canadian singer returns to the stage on Saturday for her first full concert in six years, to open a sell-out Paris residency after a battle with a rare neurological …

Bulgaria is investigating the cause of an overnight fire at an ammunition storage site run by a private defence company. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said the authorities “are not ruling out outside interference” in the incident in central Bulgaria. No-one was injured in the blaze that triggered a series of …

Officials in northern France are investigating if the derailment of a passenger train on Friday evening was the result of “a malicious act”. Prosecutor Sébastien Gallois said on Saturday that a fragment of rail had been found on the tracks – and the reasons for its presence were “unknown”. Local …

Sweden’s left- and right wing political blocs are in a tight race in Sunday’s general election, with current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson promising cabinet jobs for hard-right allies if he remains at the helm. Latest polls show a narrow lead for the left grouping, which is backing the Social …