ROME (AP) — Italy’s former national carrier Alitalia has started procedures for the collective dismissal of its remaining 2,059 employees, its administrators told unions. The move comes as the successor to bankrupt Alitalia, ITA Airways, faces hurdles in its merger plans with German Lufthansa. According to Italian media reports, merger talks stalle

Germany’s embattled far-left party, Die Linke (The Left), has selected its lead candidates for anticipated early elections, it announced at a press conference on Sunday. The election campaign, once a date is set, will be spearheaded by the party’s co-leader Jan van Aken and parliamentary chair Heidi Reichinnek. “We are entering th

A woman has been injured and flights from major airports were disrupted after Moscow was hit with the biggest drone strike since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia‘s defence ministry said 70 drones were shot down overnight in its territory, including 34 over the outskirts of the capital. The federal air transport agency said the airpo

Germany will not lack for paper in the event that snap elections are called early in the New Year, the head of the country’s paper-producing industry has said. Asked by ZDFheute.de, the online service of a national public broadcaster, whether there would be enough for election documentation should an election be called in January, Alexander [

Thirty-six people, including 15 minors, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabaliya refugee district in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The Israeli military said it had struck a “terrorist infrastructure site in the area of Jabaliya in which terrorists were operating.” They had threatened Is