Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

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Leaders attend Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have diverged

They came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.

The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week.

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France tries five suspected IS militants over kidnap of four journalists in Syria

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One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels

Five suspected Islamist terrorists accused of kidnapping and torturing four French journalists covering the war in Syria have gone on trial in Paris.

The men include the French jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, who is serving life imprisonment for an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014 in which four people died.

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Syrian delivery driver who rammed car into attacker hailed as hero in Austria

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Villach mayor praises Alaaeddin al-Halabi, who intervened in knife attack that killed 14-year-old and injured five others

A Syrian migrant living in Austria has been hailed as a hero after he rammed his car into an attacker, bringing down a radicalised assailant who had killed one teenager and left five others injured.

The stabbing, described by Austria’s interior minister as having been carried out by a Syrian man who was legally living in the country and who had become radicalised by the Islamic State group, happened on Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Villach.

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Bootleg alcohol kills at least 124 people in Turkey in just 6 weeks, state news agency reports – CBS News

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  1. Bootleg alcohol kills at least 124 people in Turkey in just 6 weeks, state news agency reports  CBS News
  2. Fake alcohol kills 50+ in Turkiye - Shafaq News  Shafaq News
  3. 7 key tips to detect counterfeit alcohol after over 100 fatalities in Turkey  MSN
  4. Tragic Rise in Deaths Linked to Tainted Alcohol in Turkey  Independent Balkan News Agency
  5. Tainted alcohol issue persists as death toll rises to 54 in Ankara  Hurriyet Daily News
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Kemi Badenoch says ‘western civilisation will be lost’ if Tory party fails

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Conservative leader calls ‘pronouns, diversity policies and climate activism’ a ‘poison’ in speech at rightwing event

Kemi Badenoch has said “our country and all of western civilisation will be lost” if efforts to renew the Conservative party and drive forward rightwing ideas globally fail.

Likening her own leadership to Donald Trump’s second term, she used a gathering of fellow conservatives to attack Keir Starmer for taking the knee in a nod to Black Lives Matter and described “pronouns, diversity policies and climate activism” as a “poison”.

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Netanyahu ‘committed’ to Trump’s plan to take over Gaza

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Comments suggest Israeli PM will reject Hamas pledge to hand over control of territory to the PA

Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that he is “committed” to Donald Trump’s plan to take over and develop the Gaza Strip, amid uncertainty over whether Israel will send a delegation to Qatar to discuss the second stage of the fragile ceasefire in the war with Hamas.

In a statement on Monday, the Israeli prime minister said: “Just as I have committed to, on the day after the war in Gaza, there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. I am committed to US president Trump’s plan for the creation of a different Gaza.”

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Trump administration files first supreme court appeal over firing of government watchdog

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Attempt to remove head of the office of special counsel is key test of executive branch’s battle with US judiciary to reshape federal government

Donald Trump’s administration has asked the supreme court to approve the firing of the head of a federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers in the first appeal of Trump’s new term and a key test of his battle with the judicial branch.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the office of the special counsel (OSC), is among the fired government watchdogs who have sued the Trump administration, arguing that their dismissals were illegal and that they should be reinstated.

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Moscow Furious Over Italy’s ‘Third Reich’ Comparison – The Moscow Times

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  1. Moscow Furious Over Italy’s ‘Third Reich’ Comparison  The Moscow Times
  2. Meloni: Russia ‘offended the entire Italian nation’ by rejecting Third Reich comparison  POLITICO Europe
  3. Pro-Russian hackers attack Italian websites after president compares invasion of Ukraine to Nazis  WANE
  4. Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16) launched a new wave of DDoS attacks on Italian sites  Security Affairs
  5. Russia slams Italian President over Nazi Germany comparison  EURACTIV
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