According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there were 233 combat engagements along the front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces over a 24-hour period on Thursday, with thousands of Russian drone attacks across multiple axes.
The body of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed by the U.S., arrived on Thursday in Mashhad, a city in eastern Iran. Following a funeral procession that began last Friday and passed through Tehran, Qom, and the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, among other places, he will be buried in Mashhad, his hometown.
The well-known Van der Valk hotel along the E17 in Nazareth-De Pinte, Flanders, will soon be repurposed: the building will become a European return center for asylum seekers. Interestingly, the restaurant will remain open as usual. “Brunch, lunch, and dinner: we’ll keep serving those,” says manager Thomas Torrekens in a statement to the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.
Erdogan handed out unusual gifts following the NATO summit in Ankara.
During a press conference with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky—who mistakenly addressed the U.S. president as “Putin”—the Ukrainian president made it clear that there was no way he would travel to Moscow at Vladimir Putin’s invitation.
U.S. President Donald Trump has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States will grant Ukraine permission to manufacture its own Patriot air defense systems to defend itself against Russian attacks.
During the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump once again caused tensions by stating that Greenland should fall “under the control of the United States” rather than Denmark. In doing so, the U.S. president reignited a long-standing and highly sensitive issue, just as the alliance is already under pressure from discussions about defense spending, Iran, and the division of roles between Europe and the U.S.
Marine Le Pen is, in principle, eligible to run in the 2027 French presidential election after an appeals court upheld her conviction in the case involving the misuse of European Parliament funds but reduced the length of her ineligibility.
According to the Estonian public broadcaster ERR News, Estonia is fed up with Russian influence on its territory and has issued an ultimatum to the Orthodox Church.
Fear of an imminent Russian threat appears to be growing in many countries. And that is also translating—primarily due to some pressure from U.S. President Trump—into increased defense spending. Following the NATO summit in Ankara with the leaders of the 32 NATO countries, the Ukrainian president warns that Russia could indeed attack a NATO country in the near future.