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ORF executive producer Michael Kroen attends a press conference about the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Lisa Leutner

Eurovision host says it will not drown out any boos during Israel's performance

The 70th edition of the contest in May will have just 35 entries, the smallest number of participants since 2003, after five national broadcasters including those of Spain, Ireland and the...

A Ukrainian serviceman walks near apartment buildings damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 15, 2025. Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Europe launches international commission for Ukraine war damages

Signage is seen at BBC Broadcasting House offices and recording studios, London, Britain, May 21, 2021. File Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville

UK launches BBC funding review, as broadcaster reels from Trump lawsuit

Photo: Reuters

UK unemployment rate climbs

A member of the White Angel unit of Ukrainian police officers, who evacuate people from the frontline towns and villages, checks an area for residents, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Dobropillia in Donetsk region, Ukraine December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov/ File Photo

Europe to launch international commission for Ukraine war damages

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy waits to welcome Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 4, 2025. REUTERS

US dangles security guarantees for Ukraine but no deal on 'painful' territorial concessions

Plant-based 3D-printed sliced meat are served at Impact Food restaurant in Rome, Italy, December 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Remo Casilli

Italy crafts lab-grown snacks with fruit residues, plant cells and a 3D printer

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a press conference in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Nobel laureate Machado injured as she fled Venezuela: Spokesperson

Blaise Metreweli, head of UK intelligence agency MI6. Photo: Collected/Downing Street

UK MI6 spy chief warns of 'aggressive' Russia threat in first speech

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys speaks on the day he attends an EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium December 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Omar Havana

EU to broaden Belarus sanctions to include hybrid activity: Lithuania

Dark clouds hang over the financial district of Frankfurt, Germany, March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Germany's housing market 'contaminated' by widespread racism

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attend a meeting in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan December 12, 2025. Photo: Sputnik/Kristina Kormilitsyna/Pool via REUTERS

'Peace is not far away' says Erdogan, returning from Putin meeting

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy waits to welcome Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

Zelenskiy says he will meet US and European representatives in Berlin