Police are searching for a British woman who was last seen more than a week ago at an airport in southern Poland. Ania Czopinski, 18, was spotted on CCTV around 11pm on 11 November at Krakow-Balice Airport. Officers say she did not have a passport with her. Image: Ms Czopinski was last spotted on CCTV […]
Around 540,000 people have left Lebanon for war-torn Syria, UN says
Around 540,000 people have fled Lebanon to neighbouring Syria since the escalation of the war between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia, according to UN figures released on Tuesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that around two-thirds of the refugees coming from Lebanon were Syrian
Russia’s nuclear rhetoric won’t dent UK support for Ukraine
Sir Keir Starmer has promised Russia’s “irresponsible rhetoric” on nuclear weapons will not affect UK support for Ukraine. Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, the Russian government said, a day after the US gave its permission for such attacks. Earlier on Tuesday, President
‘No one should have to fear their neighbour’
At a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for joint efforts to promote peace and security in the world. Xi and Scholz met in Rio de Janeiro, where both leaders are attending the G20 summit of leading economic powers. In a public statement to open the meeting, […]
Faeser urges more EU ‘solidarity’ in hosting Ukraine refugees
If Russian gains in the war in Ukraine cause another large wave of refugees into the European Union, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants a fairer distribution of refugees among EU countries. Faeser said she doesn’t expect such a development, but said that the current distribution of Ukrainian refugees currently places a heavy burden o