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In the village of Ternje in southern Kosovo, Bekim Gashi is forced to live with a feeling of emptiness. He has no graves to mourn at. In fact, he only has pictures of his mother Hyra and his four sisters, who disappeared after a massacre in his village committed by the Serbian army on March 25, 1999.

France's former minister of culture, Jack Lang, on Saturday announced his resignation from a prestigious cultural center in Paris. Lang headed up the Arab World Institute (IMA) and became the focus of a French investigation, following the recent release of millions of files related to the late convicted sex offender and US financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Lang stepping

At least 24 people were killed, including eight children and infants, after a drone strike on a humanitarian convoy in Sudan on Saturday. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary has been blamed for the attack on the convoy which was transporting residents fleeing fighting in the Dubeiker area. Authorities say the attack occurred near the city of Rahad

Italy's Transport Ministry on Saturday said that rail infrastructure in northern Italy had been the target of sabotage, which ultimately impacted journeys to day one of Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games. Police said they are investigating three incidents of damage to rail infrastructure around Bologna and have not ruled out the possibility that it may be linked to

US President Donald Trump's rhetoric on everything from punitive tariffs to "ownership" of Greenland has been prompting a rethink of Europe's defense strategy. In Brussels, diplomats, officials and think-tankers have spent much of the past year debating whether the US would still respect Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which pledges that an attack on one signatory state would

Thousands of mourners gathered in Pakistan's capital on Saturday for a somber mass funeral honoring the victims of a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque the previous day. At least 31 people were killed in the blast and around 170 were wounded, as authorities vowed to intensify operations against Islamist militants. The attack, claimed by an affiliate of the

Dilated pupils, high on camera and often alone. On TikTok, more and more young people are publicly filming their drug use. The videos reach millions, often under a single hashtag: #Pingtok. The trend reflects a new visibility of drug use on social media. What once happened behind closed doors is now filmed, aestheticized and shared publicly

Skip next section Truck tire blowout triggers 28-vehicle crash February 7, 2026 Truck tire blowout triggers 28-vehicle crash A sudden tire failure on a moving truck on the A9 in the Saale-Orla district of Thuringia has caused a major crash involving 28 vehicles, in an incident police said was remarkable for leaving no one injured.

Skip next section Europe's future hinges on how the Ukraine war ends, says security expert February 7, 2026 Europe's future hinges on how the Ukraine war ends, says security expert The chair of the Munich Security Conference(MSC) Wolfgang Ischinger has warned that Russia's threat to NATO's eastern flank could intensify after a ceasefire in Ukraine.  "As

Slight losses for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union(CDU/CSU), and slight gains for their coalition partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). These are the key findings of the ARD-Deutschlandtrend opinion poll conducted by the infratest-dimap institute, which surveyed around 1,300 representative voters between February 2 and 4. The