Europe
Fighting escalates in Ukraine’s Kostiantynivka
Russian troops are inching toward the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, trying to establish a foothold close to a ...Hundreds detained during May Day protests in Turkey
Turkish authorities detained over 500 May Day demonstrators on Friday for attempting to march in areas declared off-limits. Protests marking International Workers’ Day, a national ...Russia successfully test launches new Soyuz-5 rocket from Kazakhstan
Russia has test launched its new Soyuz-5 rocket for the first time, the country’s space agency said late on Thursday, saying it ...Kosovo heads for another early election in a prolonged political crisis
Kosovo is heading for its third parliamentary election in over a year after lawmakers repeatedly failed to elect a new president, pushing ...Ukraine, Russia swap 193 prisoners of war
Russia and Ukraine on Friday swapped 193 captured soldiers each, the second exchange this month in one of the few areas of ...Russian missiles hit Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, three dead
Overnight strikes killed three people including a boy in Ukraine and two children in Russia, officials from both countries said on Thursday. ...Hungarian PM Viktor Orban concedes defeat in European electoral earthquake
By Justin Spike and Sam McNeil, Associated Press Hungarian voters ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday after 16 years in ...Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of violating Orthodox Easter ceasefire
Russia and Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of violating a brief ceasefire in their four-year-old war hours into the truce put ...Protests over high fuel costs clog Dublin, other Irish cities
By Conor Humphries and Padraic Halpin Reuters Protesters calling for further government help to lower the cost of fuel clogged up busy ...Russian attack kills 4 in Odesa, Ukraine targets Russian oil infrastructure
By Paul GodfreyBy DEREK GATOPOULOS and VOLODYMR YURCHUK AP UPI A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed ...














