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Russian Bombardment Causes Large Outages in Ukraine’s Big Cities
The attack by Russian missiles and drones targeted the capital, Kyiv, and the large cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, as well as several smaller municipalities.
Published: November 8, 2025, 5:29 pm
In Cozying Up to Trump, Leaders Hedge Their Reliance on Moscow and Beijing
President Trump has made it easier for countries that are close to Russia and China to build ties with the United States. Those countries are embracing the opportunity.
Published: November 8, 2025, 3:46 pm
China Resumes Some Chip Exports, Easing Fears of a Global Crunch
A leading German automotive supplier said it was again allowed to ship semiconductors that Beijing had barred for export.
Published: November 7, 2025, 7:00 pm
4 Arrested Over Disruption of Israeli Orchestra’s Concert
Several audience members shouted or lit flares as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Paris. After the concert, the ensemble received 10 minutes of applause and played the Israeli national anthem.
Published: November 8, 2025, 7:04 am
Fatos Nano, Albanian Leader in Era of Chaos and Transition, Dies at 73
A political survivor during his country’s shift from brutal communist regime to flawed democracy, he served three stints as prime minister.
Published: November 8, 2025, 1:14 pm
Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site
Despite a fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through.
Published: November 7, 2025, 6:43 pm
Trump Signals Openness to Exempting Hungary from Russian Oil Sanctions
Despite a chummy relationship, new U.S. penalties on Russian energy were likely to be a sticking point as President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary met.
Published: November 8, 2025, 2:55 am
Why Germany Is Still Divided When It Comes to Russia
Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.
Published: November 7, 2025, 10:09 am
Russian Jailed for Placing Tiny Antiwar Signs in a Market Says She Would Do it Again
Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more important than spending even 10 years in jail.”
Published: November 7, 2025, 7:00 pm
Former King of Spain, Juan Carlos, Details Death of Brother in Memoir
He wrote about the accident that killed his brother nearly 70 years ago. The book also describes his respect for Gen. Francisco Franco, the former dictator.
Published: November 7, 2025, 8:01 am
Trump’s Tariffs Leave Swiss Farmers With Too Much Milk
The country’s dairy farmers produced a bumper harvest of milk, but higher U.S. duties have forced them to consider ways to cut back, including slaughtering cows.
Published: November 7, 2025, 12:11 pm
Kazakhstan Is Joining the Abraham Accords, Trump Says
The Central Asian country already has diplomatic relations with Israel, but the move appears to be a good-will gesture to President Trump.
Published: November 7, 2025, 1:44 am
Tony Harrison, Poet of the Working Class, Is Dead at 88
In Britain, he sought to be “free not to have to puff some prince’s wedding / free to say up yours to Tony Blair.”
Published: November 8, 2025, 5:14 am
Scotland 17 New Zealand 25: Deja Blue as Scots are forced to wait for win over All Blacks
Close but no cigar. It has now become a recurring theme of Scotland's most recent efforts to finally beat New New Zealand. Painfully so.
Published: November 8, 2025, 7:38 pm
James Bond film director Lee Tamahori who also worked with Alec Baldwin and Melanie Griffith dies at 75 after long illness
His feature directorial debut, Once Were Warriors, was a widespread critical and commercial success, and is considered one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made.
Published: November 7, 2025, 7:32 pm
James Bond film director Lee Tamahori dies at 75 after long illness
His feature directorial debut, Once Were Warriors, was a widespread critical and commercial success, and is considered one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made.
Published: November 7, 2025, 7:15 pm
There's going to be 67,000 people coming to watch us play the All Blacks... it would be a damn shame if we don't believe we can win, says Scotland skipper Tuipulotu
Scotland captain Sione Tuipulotu has challenged his team-mates to rise to the occasion when they go hunting an historic first-ever victory over the All Blacks at Murrayfield on Saturday afternoon.
Published: November 7, 2025, 4:00 pm
It's an outrage that Labour is allowing the IRA to rewrite history with its murderers as martyrs while demonising the heroes of the SAS, says ROBERT HARDMAN
There was to be no mercy. The three duty policemen were to be blown to pieces at their desks by a digger carrying a 400lb bomb and if any of them attempted to escape, they were to be shot dead.
Published: November 8, 2025, 2:41 pm
Labour hands IRA new propaganda coup and leaves SAS heroes in fear of prosecution 38 years after ridding us of eight terrorists
Twenty-four soldiers are facing prosecution after the Government caved into Republicans over the possibility of a new inquest and inquiry into the 1987 IRA attack in Loughgall.
Published: November 8, 2025, 2:19 am
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Stop this cruel war against our veterans
To Labour's eternal shame, they've opened up a new front in the witch-hunt against British troops who served bravely in Northern Ireland.
Published: November 8, 2025, 12:34 am