Belgium investigates new drone sightings over military base
Belgium has opened an investigation after two drone sightings over a military base in the country's south-east, Defence Minister Theo Francken said on...
Four migrants died after their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece's coastguard said on Tuesday after launching a search-and-rescue operation in the area.
So far, 34 migrants have been found safe ashore in the south of the island, a coastguard official said, adding that at least three vessels and one helicopter assisted the operation. Four bodies were recovered at sea.
Initial reports indicated that there were 38 people in total on the boat. The circumstances of the incident were unclear.
Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.
Migrant flows subsequently ebbed. But the Mediterranean nation has recently toughened migration rules, following a resurgence of arrivals from Libya via the Greek islands of Crete and Gavdos.
In 2025, an estimated 58,194 to 70,860 migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean by boat by mid-year according to a Press Review released by Migreurop in July 2025.
43,000 to 55,000 out of those were successful arrivals in the first few months and while more than 12,000 were intercepted.
Migreurop also reported that as of mid-October 2025, at least 743 migrants have died or gone missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year, with 538 deaths on the Central Mediterranean route alone.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) also reported 947 deaths through July 2025, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) noted over 700 deaths in the Central Mediterranean by mid-August.
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At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
Belgium has opened an investigation after two drone sightings over a military base in the country's south-east, Defence Minister Theo Francken said on Wednesday.
A U.S. federal agent attempted to recruit Nicolás Maduro’s personal pilot in a secret plan to divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a location where he could be arrested, AP has revealed.
The United States plans to cut the number of troops stationed on Europe's eastern flank, including soldiers who were to be stationed at Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu air base.
Dutch voters headed to the polls on Wednesday to decide whether to continue the anti-immigration nationalism championed by populist leader Geert Wilders, who collapsed the previous conservative coalition after two turbulent years, or to steer the country back towards the political centre.
The British government announced on Wednesday that it had struck a series of trade and investment agreements worth $8.6 billion with Saudi Arabia, marking a major step in the UK’s efforts to boost economic relations across the Gulf.
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