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By Konstantinos Tsellos & euronews with ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ Published on 28/12/2025 – 20:01 GMT+1 Parliamentary elections were underway in Kosovo, two million citizens were expected to head to the polls on Sunday for the second time in 2025 to elect 120 members of parliament. The previous elections, held on 9 February, failed to produce a government, and attempts to form a coalition were unsuccessful, resulting in a caretaker government holding power for almost ten months. The Central Electoral Commission reported that by 11:00 (12:00 in Greece and Cyprus) 8.27% of registered voters had cast their ballots, roughly the same proportion as at the same point…
Published on 28/12/2025 – 18:35 GMT+1 •Updated 18:38 After weeks of intense high-level diplomacy, Donald Trump is set to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida as the two leaders are expected to discuss the latest peace efforts to end Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine after nearly four years of hostilities. The meeting is set to start at 19:00CET (1p.m EST) at Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. President Zelenskyy arrived in Miami on Saturday evening. Zelenskyy described the efforts leading to the bilateral meeting as the “most active diplomatic days of the year”, saying “a lot can be decided before the New Year”.…
By Euronews with AP Published on 28/12/2025 – 18:04 GMT+1 On the night of Saturday into Sunday Russia launched 48 drones in anovernight attack on Ukraine. Multiple regions were targeted including the Donetsk region where a 51-year-old man was killed by a gliding bomb on the city of Sloviansk whilst in his garden. Another five people were injured in attacks on the region of Kherson. Meanwhile, dozens of firefighters battled a residential blaze in the hope of saving people’s homes, following a drone strike in the southern region of Odesa. In Sumy’s northern region an infrastructure facility was hit twice, Ukraine’s State Emergency…
Humans are due to land on the moon again in 2027—a return that comes at a time of growing geopolitical tensions reminiscent of the Cold War in many respects: rearmament, new power blocs, and increasing tensions between East and West. As in the past, space has once again become a stage for strategic competition. A new landing on the moon stands for far more than scientific progress: it is seen as an expression of technological leadership and geopolitical power in the new space race. A permanent presence on the moon promises influence on future space standards, questions of resource utilisation…
Published on 28/12/2025 – 15:48 GMT+1 Germany and the United Kingdom have signed a joint procurement contract worth 72 million dollars (around 61 million euros) to acquire modern artillery systems on armoured vehicles that can also fire while on the move and hit targets more than 70 kilometres away, media reports showed on Sunday. According to the British Ministry of Defence, the contract will initially provide the British Army with a demonstrator of the RCH 155 system. In addition, two units are planned for Germany, where they will be deployed for test purposes. The system will be manufactured by the…
Brigitte Bardot, one of the world’s biggest stars of cinema, has died. She was 91 and had been in hospital in the southern French city of Toulon since November. In a statement the Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her death with “immense sadness”, describing her as a “world-renowned actress and singer, who chose to abandon her prestigious career to dedicate her life and energy to animal welfare and her foundation.” Known for her enormous impact on the silver screen in the 1950s, “BB” as she was widely called in France, was an essential ingredient in French culture and soon became an…
Lavrov’s comments were published as Zelenskyy headed in Florida to meet with Trump at his Mar-a-lago estate to resume talks on proposals to end the conflict with Russia. The meeting is expected to start at 1 p.m. Florida time (7 p.m. in Brussels). The meeting follows weeks of negotiations by envoys from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia since Trump proposed a 28-point peace plan in November. The proposal has been revised to 20 points, with Zelenskyy presenting the details to journalists in Kyiv last week. Early Saturday, Moscow pummeled the Ukrainian capital with one of its heaviest air assaults in…
The first of three phases of voting closed on Sunday in Myanmar in an election that comes nearly five years after the military seized power in a coup in 2021. The polls’ first round opened Sunday morning in 102 of Myanmar’s 330 townships, while the second and third phases will take place on 11 and 25 January, respectively. Final results are expected to be announced by February after two more rounds of voting are completed, but the ballot is widely being criticised and dismissed after major political parties were dissolved, leaders jailed, and half the country not participating due to…
By euronews Published on 28/12/2025 – 13:23 GMT+1 •Updated 13:50 Brigitte Bardot, the legendary French actress whose face, style and presence became visual symbols of the 1960s, has died at the age of 91. From her breakthrough in And God Created Woman to her years as a global fashion and cultural icon, Bardot’s life was documented through unforgettable images that shaped modern celebrity. Later, those same photographs reflected her transformation into a fierce animal rights activist, marking a life lived under the world’s lens.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a joint declaration with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullah “in the spirit of the Abraham Accords,” a series of agreements to create commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and Arab countries, AP reported. Netanyahu is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday in Florida. On Friday the New York Post reported that Trump said he would not follow Israel’s lead in recognizing Somaliland’s independence. The U.S. State Department on Saturday said it continued to recognize the territorial integrity of Somalia, “which includes the territory of Somaliland.” Qatar called the declaration “a dangerous…