La Lituanie commémore, depuis le 12 janvier au soir, les affrontements meurtriers qui ont fait quatorze morts quand les Lituaniens ont voulu défendre la tour de télévision, le Parlement et le siège de la radio contre les militaires soviétiques. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, l’heure est au recueillement, mais dans la foule, les Lituaniens ne peuvent oublier le conflit en Ukraine et les menaces russes alors que leur pays est limitrophe de la Russie de Vladimir Poutine.
La Lituanie commémore, depuis le 12 janvier au soir, les affrontements meurtriers qui ont fait quatorze morts quand les Lituaniens ont voulu défendre la tour de télévision, le Parlement et le siège de la radio contre les militaires soviétiques. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, l’heure est au recueillement, mais dans la foule, les Lituaniens ne peuvent oublier le conflit en Ukraine et les menaces russes alors que leur pays est limitrophe de la Russie de Vladimir Poutine.
Paris trial’s outcome will determine whether leader of far-right National Rally can run for French presidency in 2027
The French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen will face a fresh trial on appeal on Tuesday over the embezzlement of European parliament funds in a case that will determine whether or not she can run in the 2027 presidential election.
Le Pen, 57, who leads the far-right, anti-immigration National Rally (RN), was considered to be a contender for next year’s election until she was barred from running for public office last March after being found guilty of an extensive and long-running fake jobs scam.
With temperatures as low as -15C in some parts of Ukraine, vulnerable residents tell Alex Croft that life under Russian assault is as difficult as ever
Exclusive: Chinese officials are using a ‘highly specific’ interpretation of EU rules to suggest Taiwanese figures should not be granted visas, officials say
Chinese officials have been pushing “legal advice” on European countries, saying their own border laws require them to ban entry to Taiwanese politicians, according to more than half a dozen diplomats and officials familiar with the matter.
The officials made demarches to European embassies in Beijing, or through local embassies directly to European governments in their capital cities, warning the European countries not to “trample on China’s red lines”, according to the European diplomats and ministries who spoke to the Guardian.
Strike on Lviv that used nuclear-capable ballistic missile a ‘dangerous, inexplicable escalation’. What we know on day 1,420
The US and Britain have condemned Russia for dropping a nuclear-capable Oreshnik ballistic missile on Ukraine. At an emergency meeting of the UN security council, Tammy Bruce, US deputy ambassador, called the Lviv strike a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation”. Britain’s acting UN ambassador, James Kariuki, called the attack “reckless”, adding that “it threatens regional and international security and carries significant risk of escalation and miscalculation”.
Russia claimed the Oreshnik targeted an aviation repair factory. Ukraine has not confirmed what was hit but said the missile struck during a wider attack using drones and other rockets. The rarely used, multiple warhead Oreshnikmissile is thought to be in limited supply – Ukraine’s military and special forces claim to have destroyed at least one of them on the ground in Russia. Observers have rated the two Oreshnik strikes so far on Ukraine as largely political and symbolic, with dummy warheads probably used, and any damage caused by their sonic boom and physical impact rather than live explosives. Analysts have questioned whether the Oreshnik is accurate enough to deliver non-nuclear bombs, which have to be more closely targeted than nuclear warheads to be effective.
Russian forces launched attacks on Kyiv and Kharkiv early on Tuesday, killing at least four people in Kharkiv, according to its mayor, Igor Terekhov, and injuring another six. In the southern city of Odesa, residential buildings, a hospital and a kindergarten were damaged, with at least five people wounded in two waves of attacks, said Sergiy Lysak, the regional governor.
Kyiv on Monday buried medic Sergiy Smolyak, 56, who was killed in a drone attack as he rushed to rescue residents from a housing block that Russia struck minutes earlier in a massive attack on the Ukrainian capital on Friday. “He was very kind, always calm and even-tempered. He saved so many people,” said Ryta Dorosh, a nurse who worked with Smolyak before the war.
Russia has bombed two more civilian ships transporting food products in the Black Sea, according to Ukraine. “An enemy drone struck a Panamanian-flagged tanker that was waiting to enter port to load vegetable oil. Unfortunately, one crew member was wounded,” said Ukrainian regional development minister Oleksiy Kuleba. “There was also an attack on a ship flying the flag of San Marino, which was leaving the port with a cargo of corn ... This is further proof that Russia is deliberately attacking civilian ships, international trade and maritime safety,” he added. Odesa regional governor Oleg Kiper said the attacks happened around the Chornomorsk port on the southern Ukrainian coast.
The U.S. is sabre-rattling over Greenland once again. The vast island’s natural resources are back on the agenda, a year after then-U.S. national security advisor Michael Waltz announced: “This is about critical minerals. This is about natural resources.”
Incriminating video, dismissed by officials as part of a ‘hybrid attack’, has forced resignations of Nikos Christodoulides’s wife and chief of staff
The Cypriot president, Nikos Christodoulides, has said he has “nothing to fear” over a scandal that has forced the resignations of his chief of staff and his wife from a leadership role of a major charity.
As allegations of high-level corruption swirled days after the island assumed the rotating EU presidency, officials insisted the country had been the victim of “hybrid warfare”. The incriminating claims, implicating the president and first lady in a cash for access network, were made in a video uploaded on X.
Alors que les manifestations contre le régime se poursuivent en Iran, les voisins de la République islamique suivent de près l’évolution de la situation. C’est tout particulièrement le cas de la Turquie, qui partage plus de 500 kilomètres de frontière avec l’Iran. À Ankara ces derniers jours, les responsables politiques ont eu tendance à minimiser l’ampleur de la contestation dans le pays et à dénoncer des ingérences étrangères.
Alors que les manifestations contre le régime se poursuivent en Iran, les voisins de la République islamique suivent de près l’évolution de la situation. C’est tout particulièrement le cas de la Turquie, qui partage plus de 500 kilomètres de frontière avec l’Iran. À Ankara ces derniers jours, les responsables politiques ont eu tendance à minimiser l’ampleur de la contestation dans le pays et à dénoncer des ingérences étrangères.
Un tribunal du canton suisse du Valais a ordonné lundi 12 janvier le placement en détention provisoire pour une durée initiale de trois mois du Français Jacques Moretti, copropriétaire du bar de la station de ski de Crans-Montana où un incendie à fait 40 morts et 116 blessés dans la nuit du Nouvel An. La justice valaisanne justifie sa décision par un possible risque de fuite.
Un tribunal du canton suisse du Valais a ordonné lundi 12 janvier le placement en détention provisoire pour une durée initiale de trois mois du Français Jacques Moretti, copropriétaire du bar de la station de ski de Crans-Montana où un incendie à fait 40 morts et 116 blessés dans la nuit du Nouvel An. La justice valaisanne justifie sa décision par un possible risque de fuite.
The tumultuous start to 2026 should force a reckoning in Brussels and European capitals, and a recognition of the power the EU can exert
Another week, another set of dilemmas for Europe’s beleaguered political class to deal with. On Wednesday Brussels is due to outline the terms of the €90bn loan it has promised to Ukraine, amid internal tensions over whether Kyiv can use the money to buy US as well as EU weapons. On the same day, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is due to meet ministers from Denmark and Greenland, as Donald Trump continues to insist that the US will take ownership of the latter “one way or another”. And as the body count of protesters rises in Iran, the EU is under mounting pressure to do more than merely “monitor” the situation, as the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, somewhat feebly put it over the weekend.
Beyond the crisis management, a deeper reckoning is overdue after a tumultuous beginning to 2026. It has long been a truism that there is a profound mismatch between the EU’s economic heft and its geopolitical clout. But only a year into Mr Trump’s second term, the disjunction looks unsustainable in the “America first” era.
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C'est l'événement économique et politique de la rentrée européenne, après plus de 25 ans de discussion, l'Union européenne et les pays latino-américains du Mercosur ont conclu un accord de libre échange vendredi dernier (9 janvier 2026). Il sera signé au Paraguay le 17 janvier 2026. Le chancelier Merz a mis tout son poids politique dans les discussions.
Haul represents country’s largest seizure at sea, with officers digging bales out from vast amount of salt
Spanish police have made their largest seizure of cocaine at sea after finding almost 10 tonnes of the drug hidden among a cargo of salt on a merchant ship off the Canary Islands.
Detectives and anti-drug prosecutors investigating a multinational criminal group alleged to be exporting “enormous quantities” of cocaine from South America to Europe had identified a suspect ship that had set off from Brazil, the Policía Nacional said in a statement on Monday.
Une directive européenne va bientôt imposer la transparence salariale dans toutes les entreprises, avec un objectif clair : en finir avec les inégalités de rémunération.
L'équipe de France a pris part aux Championnats d'Europe de Tomaszow Mazowiecki (Pologne) ce week-end. Pas de médaille pour les Bleus mais certains résultats sont encourageants en vue des Jeux Olympiques de Milan-Cortina en février prochain.
Au premier jour de sa visite en Inde, le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz a appelé à conclure rapidement un accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et l’Union européenne, estimant ce partenariat essentiel dans un contexte de profonds bouleversements géopolitiques. Berlin et New Delhi entendent d'ailleurs renforcer leur coopération dans l'industrie de la défense.
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