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Spain’s Defense Minister Margarita Robles arrives for a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on April 11, 2025. Photo: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File via UNB

Europe

Spain cancels contract for anti-tank missiles built by Israeli subsidiary

The decision will affect the license for 168 SPIKE LR2 anti-tank missile systems with an estimated value of 285 million euros ($325 million). The systems would have been developed in Spain by Pap...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on 19 March 2025. File Photo: Reuters

Europe

Zelenskiy announces military shakeup, new assignment for commander who resigned

A combination picture shows satellite images of the Belaya airfield, before and after the Ukrainian drones attack targeting Russian military airfields, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, in Irkutsk region, Russia, May 17, 2025 on the left, and June 2, 2025 on the right. Photo: 2025 Planet Labs PBC (left) & Capella Space/Handout via REUTERS

Europe

Satellite imagery shows Ukraine attack destroyed and damaged Russian bombers

A view shows the Crimean Bridge, a section of which was damaged by an alleged overnight attack, as seen form the city of Kerch, Crimea, July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak/File Photo

Europe

Ukraine says it hit Russia's bridge to Crimea with underwater explosives

Smoke billows from Mount Etna volcano, Italy. Photo: AP via UNB

Europe

Sicily's Mount Etna erupts with columns of smoke and ash

A serviceman of the 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun toward Russian positions, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov

Europe

At least 700,000 people in Russian-held Ukraine without power after Ukrainian strikes, officials say

Russian delegation head and presidential adviser, Vladimir Medinsky speaks to the press, after a meeting at Ciragan Palace on the day of the second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Europe

Russia sets out punitive terms at peace talks with Ukraine

Russian delegation, led by presidential adviser, Vladimir Medinsky, Chief of the Turkish General Staff, Metin Gurak, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Turkey's intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalin, Ukrainian delegation led by Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, attend a meeting at Ciragan Palace on the day of the second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Europe

Russia, Ukraine reach deal on new POW swap and handover of bodies

A serviceman of the 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun toward Russian positions, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov

Europe

Russia and Ukraine to talk about peace but are still far apart

People walk in Red Square on a sunny day in Moscow, Russia, February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Europe

Russia says shot down 162 Ukrainian drones overnight

Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, talks to the press after he voted in the second round of presidential election, at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland, June 1, 2025. Photo: Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Slawomir Kaminski via REUTERS

Europe

Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki wins presidential vote: electoral commission

Philippines' Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo attends an interview during ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Langkawi, Malaysia January 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain/File Photo

Asia

Philippines and EU to set up security and defence dialogue: minister

People walk across Red Square near St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower in central Moscow, Russia September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Europe

Russia accepts Taliban's nominated ambassador to Moscow