Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says his country has no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states but warned of a “decisive response” to any “aggression” directed towards Moscow. In a wide-ranging speech delivered at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, Lavrov said threats against Russia by Western countries …

Drone footage has captured a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s Kolyuchin Island. Travel blogger, Vadim Makhorov, shared video that shows several bears inside the scattered building, looking through windows and walking around the island. A bear could be seen trying to catch the …

Slovakia has changed its constitution, enshrining into law recognition of only two sexes – male and female. The legal change, which passed in a knife-edge vote in parliament, also restricts adoption to married heterosexual couples and prohibits surrogate pregnancies. The constitutional amendment was defined as enshrining “sovereignty in cultural and …

Bosch is set to cut 13,000 jobs as part of its plans to save €2.5bn (£2.06bn). The engineering giant said the losses, in its mobility division in Germany which provides vehicle parts and software, came as a result of a stagnated market and pressure from rival companies. The market has …

Hugh SchofieldParis correspondent AFP via Getty Images Former leader of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been sentenced to five years in prison Nicolas Sarkozy is back where he used to be – dominating the news and dividing the nation. Thirteen years after he left office, he is about to become the …

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor BO AMSTRUP/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Aalborg airport was among those targeted by a wave of drones in Denmark A night of drone incidents at airports and military bases all over Jutland, western Denmark, has not caused any harm or damage – and yet it has exposed the country’s …

A Moldovan oligarch and former senior politician has been extradited from Greece accused of involvement in the theft of $1bn (£748m). Vladimir Plahotniuc, 59, was flown from Athens to Chisinau on Thursday morning and then taken to a detention centre in Moldova’s capital, local officials said. The tycoon, who faces …

Image source, NASAImage caption, Hurricane Gabrielle underwent rapid intensification as it passed to the southeast of Bermuda Credit NASA ByChris Fawkes Lead Weather Presenter Hurricane Gabrielle is forecast to hit the central Azores early on Friday morning with red weather warnings in force for torrential rain, damaging wind gusts and …

Dozens of women in Greenland have heard Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, formally apologise for a scandal that involved thousands of Inuit women being forcibly given contraceptive coils, as part of a controversial birth control programme during the 1960s and 70s. “Dear women. Dear families. Dear Greenland. Today there is …

Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Moscow Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine could win back all territory seized by Russia will have raised eyebrows in Moscow On paper, there was plenty in Donald Trump’s comments to rile the Kremlin. For starters, his description of Russia as a “paper tiger” that …

Kostas Koukoumakas in Athens and Kostas Kallergis in Brussels Getty Images Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called the story a scandal – but no government officials have been charged in court It has become known as Greece’s Watergate: spyware software and Greek intelligence targeted the mobile phones of government …

The president of Moldova Maia Sandu has warned that her country’s independence and European future are in danger after police arrested dozens of people accused of involvement in a plot to stoke violent disorder, allegedly backed by Russia. Just days before Sunday’s pivotal parliamentary elections, Moldovan police said they had …

The drone incursion that stopped flights at Copenhagen airport on Monday night was “the most severe attack on Danish infrastructure so far”, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. Kastrup airport in Copenhagen was forced to shut for several hours from around 20:30 (18:30 GMT) on Monday following the sighting of …

President Emmanuel Macron will formally recognise a Palestinian state in New York on Monday, backed by several other European countries, describing France’s move as a “necessity”. Coming hard on the heels of a decision by the UK, Canada and Australia, Macron said his move would be the “beginning of a …

Oana Marocico, Seamus MirodanBBC Eye Investigations and Rowan IngsBBC Global Disinformation Unit BBC Network co-ordinator Alina Juk (left), captured by our undercover filming, listens to instructions about the disinformation campaign A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern European state, the BBC has found. …

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has won Russia’s Intervision song contest, held in Moscow on Saturday. Vietnam was among 23 countries participating in the Soviet-era contest, revived by President Vladimir Putin three years after Russia was banned from Eurovision because of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin said he was confident …

The iconic Medieval towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris have reopened to the public, six years after a massive fire ravaged parts of the historical landmark and forced its closure. The central part of the cathedral was reopened in December 2024, but it has taken longer for Notre-Dame’s twin towers …

A man wanted over a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris more than 40 years ago has been arrested by Palestinian authorities in the occupied West Bank. Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra – who went by the name Hicham Harb – is suspected of directing the August 1982 gun …

Akisa WanderaBBC Africa, Nairobi and Vitalii ChervonenkoBBC Ukrainian, Kyiv Edith Chesoi With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia. “I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on …

Hugh SchofieldParis correspondent BBC Some people in France were upset to learn this week that their political chaos was being laughed at… by the Italians. In less than two years France has gone through five prime ministers, a political feat unsurpassed even in Rome’s times of post-war political turbulence. And …