Paul Kirby

A former leading Ukrainian official has been shot dead outside an American school in the Spanish capital Madrid, authorities have confirmed. Andriy Portnov, 51, had just dropped his children off at the school in the Pozuelo de Alarcón area of […]

A Russian missile strike on a training exercise in Ukraine’s Sumy border region has killed six servicemen and wounded more than 10 others, says Ukraine’s National Guard. Russia’s defence ministry had earlier released a video purporting to show an Iskander

Sweden’s foreign minister has spoken of grief among her colleagues after it emerged that a diplomat who was questioned this week on suspicion of spying has been found dead. The man, described as a high-ranking diplomat, was arrested by Sweden’s

The European Commission was wrong to refuse to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer during negotiations to secure Covid-19 vaccines, the EU’s top court has ruled. The General Court said the commission

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Reuters The deal is a personal victory for Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Germany’s conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, has clinched an enormous financial package to revamp defence and infrastructure, ahead of a crunch vote in parliament

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Getty Images Denmark’s letter deliveries began in 1624 Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP Friedrich Merz hopes to form a new government by late April Friedrich Merz, who’s expected to become Germany’s next chancellor, has announced a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Reuters Ukraine’s president has few options now that the US has paused aid to Ukraine Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is in a bind. After last Friday’s disastrous meeting in the Oval Office, it seems nothing that

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. His statement, read out in a letter by MPs from a pro-Kurdish party, was aimed at ending

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor in Berlin Getty Images Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won, but Germany’s 2025 election has thrown up some important and fascinating stories that reveal a country in flux. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has doubled its