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Updated: 13/12/2025 – 18:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 13th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
Germany is sending soldiers to strengthen Poland’s eastern border with Belarus and Russia, multiple media reported on Saturday. Several dozen German soldiers will join Poland’s East Shield from April 2026, with the mission initially running until the end of 2027, Deutsche Welle reported, citing Berlin’s defense ministry. German troops will focus on engineering work, according to a ministry spokesperson quoted in the report. The spokesperson described this as building positions, digging trenches, laying barbed wire and constructing anti-tank obstacles. The East Shield is a €2.3 billion program announced by Warsaw last year to bolster security along its eastern border.
Lionel Messi’s three-day tour of India began on a chaotic note in Kolkata after fans damaged stadium seats and entered the pitch following the football star’s early exit from Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday. Messi was scheduled for a 45-minute visit to the stadium, but his appearance lasted just 20 minutes. Soon after Messi’s departure, fans ripped up stadium seats and other objects on to the field while many were seen climbing over the ring fence that separated the fans and the pitch. Satadru Dutta, the event’s chief organiser, has been detained by police after the Argentine star left Kolkata.…
Belarus released more than 100 political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and activist Maria Kolesnikova, multiple media outlets reported on Saturday. Belarus released a total of 123 prisoners following talks between authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Belarus John Coale, BBC reported. The U.S. reportedly agreed to lift sanctions on potash, a key fertilizer component and an important export for Belarus, a historical ally of Russia. Kolesnikova was sentenced four years ago to a long prison term after being convicted of attempting to seize power illegally.
It is still unclear whether Donald Trump will succeed in ending the war in Gaza two years after Oct. 7, 2023. What is clear, however, is that when it really mattered, Europe and large parts of the free world failed. Oct 11 8 mins read
Published on 13/12/2025 – 13:01 GMT+1 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched over 450 strike drones and 30 missiles overnight into Saturday, targeting various areas across Ukraine, killing at least three people and injuring 10 others. One person was killed in the settlement of Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka in the eastern Donbas region, one of the most active frontlines in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, well into its fourth year. In the nearby city of Kostiantynivka, two other people were killed in Russian attacks, as the Kremlin pummelled the Donbas with over 17 attacks on various settlements over the past 24-hours. Six…
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U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Germany this weekend to discuss a plan to end the war with Russia, according to multiple media reports. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also are expected to take part in the meeting, according to the reports. The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the planned meeting in Berlin. U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also attend the Berlin meeting with Zelenskyy and the European leaders, Reuters reported.
The Trump Effect: How One Man’s Politics Rewired Europe From defense to trade to climate policy, Trump’s second term has shaken Europe’s foundations and forced leaders across the continent to adapt to a new transatlantic reality. By POLITICO Illustration by Jiyeun Kang for POLITICO Even with an ocean apart, there isn’t an industry in Europe that hasn’t been impacted by President Donald Trump’s actions. Businesses and consumers alike are reeling from Trump’s tariffs. Climate advocates are reeling from the U.S. pulling out of major treaties, including the Paris Agreement. National budgets are being strained by Trump’s demand for more defense…
Video from state broadcaster KRT on Friday showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hugging the soldiers, as well as laying a white flower in front of portraits of the nine who died in combat. The event took place at a giant building close to the centre of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, called the April 25 House of Culture. The name of the building refers to the founding date that North Korean official history says was when its first leader Kim Il Sung started a militia to fight the Japanese occupation of Korea.