Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has expressed confidence that his country can achieve a "just and reasonable peace" this year. The diplomat spoke yesterday at the "Ukraine. Year 2025" forum, dedicated to the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.more

Introducing a guaranteed income in Canada would reduce the area of poverty by up to 40 per cent and cost between $53 billion and $107 billion, according to a report released this week by the parliamentary budget watchdog.more

Berlin police have arrested a suspect accused of carrying out an attack at a memorial to Holocaust victims - the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of the German capital, investigators announced last night. One person was seriously injured as a result of the attack. The identity of the suspect has been established: he is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee. more

Representatives of the Trump administration threatened Ukraine with immediate cut-off from the Starlink orbital communications network if Kyiv did not agree to a profit-sharing deal on Ukraine's natural resources, Reuters reported. Donald Trump assessed yesterday that Ukraine was likely to agree to US demands soon.more

The United States does not want the joint declaration of the G7 countries to mark the third anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine to include the wording about Russia as an aggressor, the 'Financial Times' reported yesterday.more

The value of EU exports of goods to non-EU countries in 2024 reached €2.59 trillion, up 1.1 per cent on 2023, according to the latest Eurostat figures. Imports to the EU amounted to €2.43 trillion, recording a decrease of 3.5 per cent on the previous year.more

US President Donald Trump has already made no secret of his sympathy for Russian leader Vladimir Putin during his first term in office, but his attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could mark the beginning of a new world order, the US press comments today.more

The European media fears a drop in turnover for tourism and service sector companies due to the planned reduction of Ryanair flights in at least five EU countries such as Spain, Denmark and Germany, among others. In Poland, the airline will launch 23 new destinations during the summer season.more

If Europe wants to send troops to Ukraine, I'm for it, but we won't do it because we are very far away, US President Donald Trump declared yesterday. He also praised the outcome of the Riyadh talks, supported the Russian demand for elections in Ukraine and announced a meeting with Putin later in February.more

French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed he will hold another meeting on Ukraine today with leaders from Europe and beyond, and announced he will talk to political forces in the country about the situation related to the threat from Russia.more

At the end of 2024, the U.S. population reached 340.1 million, an increase of about 8.5 million people from 2020. The largest number of new residents were added by Texas, Florida, and South Carolina, while the largest losses were recorded by New York, California, and Illinois.more

Talks between US and Russian delegations took place today in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported. This is the first such meeting since the beginning of the Russian assault on Ukraine. The main topic was Russia's war against Ukraine. The meeting lasted 4.5 hours.more

All passengers and crew on a flight which crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada have survived, the airport's chief executive said. "We are very grateful there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries," said Deborah Flint of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.more

After the informal meeting in Paris, Prime Minister Donald Tusk stressed yesterday evening that it was a prelude to what will happen in the coming weeks and months. He said that he was pleased to hear from everyone that it is in the interest of all of Europe to work intensively to strengthen cooperation among allies.more

US President Donald Trump’s administration has told European officials that it wants to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine by Easter, Bloomberg reported yesterday. This year, Orthodox, Greek Catholics and Catholics celebrate the holiday on the same day – April 20.more

Brazil has been hit by an extreme heatwave. The highest temperatures, reaching 40°C, felt up to 63°C, with air humidity reaching 80% in the afternoon, are in the former capital of the country - the seaside city of Rio de Janeiro, where the famous Brazilian carnival has begun, with performances by competing "dance school" teams of several hundred people.more

A 38-year-old Polish woman was held captive by her Italian partner in a basement in Rome. The man was arrested on suspicion of abuse, and the woman was saved by making the international sign for help, the police headquarters in the Italian capital reported.more

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032. The probability of the recently discovered asteroid, which is expected to make a close pass close to Earth in 2032, has doubled.more

The European Union is planning a ban on the import of some food products, modelled on Donald Trump's policies, in an attempt to stem the flow of goods containing banned pesticides, the British daily Financial Times reports today.more

The human body temperature has decreased over the centuries and its normal value is no longer 36.6 degrees C, but 36.4 degrees C, and in some populations even less. Doctors and anthropologists from California have suggested possible reasons for this change.more

On the first day of the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President J.D. Vance criticised European democracy, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenski assessed that the US had never seen Kyiv in Nato, and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen argued for more defence spending.more

Pensioners in Uzbekistan are deprived of benefits when they go abroad, while in Turkmenistan they have to prove every six months that they are still alive - according to information published by the Radio Swoboda portal.more

Another attack by a refugee who remained in Germany despite his asylum application being rejected has sparked a wave of criticism of the government's migration policy, with commentators calling on politicians to break with Merkel's tradition and tighten the rules after the election.more

Russia is planning a three-stage negotiation process to end the war, with a key point including elections in Ukraine, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a person involved in the talks with the Russians. President Trump has also spoken of the need for elections.more

At least 28 people were injured, including children, in Munich, where a car drove into a group of people today, the dpa news agency reported. Police have apprehended the driver, who is a 26-year-old Afghan national, according to the Bild daily. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder assessed that an attack was likely to have taken place.more