A large crowd of people were duped into lining the streets of Dublin for a Halloween parade that did not exist. Spectators turned out in force to watch the alleged procession in the Irish capital on Thursday night – until they were told there had never been any plans for one to be held. It […]

The Israeli government on Friday approved higher military spending and cuts in education, health and social services in a draft budget for 2025. The draft, which still needs parliamentary approval, provides for a total expenditure of 744 billion shekels ($197 billion), according to the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist. It also allocates 161 bil

Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia. Valencia saw a year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours, with floods […]

The death toll following severe storms in Spain has risen to 205 after more bodies were recovered, with 202 victims from the eastern region of Valencia alone, the regional government’s emergency services posted on X on Friday. The authorities have stated that two more people lost their lives in the region of Castile-La Mancha, and […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to travel to Malta for a foreign ministers’ meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), despite EU sanctions on him, the Vedomosti business daily reported on Friday. The report cited Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The trip would be the first by Lavrov to