‘Explosive device’ was triggered when police approached a suspicious person, say officials
Two traffic police officers and a third person have been killed in a car explosion in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said early on Wednesday.
The committee said in a statement “an explosive device was triggered” when the officers approached a “suspicious person” near their police vehicle on Yeletskaya Street in the south of the capital.
La Commission européenne a donné ce mardi 23 décembre 2025 son feu vert au plan de restructuration de la compagnie aérienne française Corsair, qui dessert notamment Abidjan, Cotonou ou encore Bamako. Attendu depuis plusieurs mois, ce plan d'aide à la France va permettre à la compagnie aérienne de continuer à opérer, mais elle devra revoir certains de ses vols et libérer des créneaux.
La Commission européenne a donné ce mardi 23 décembre 2025 son feu vert au plan de restructuration de la compagnie aérienne française Corsair, qui dessert notamment Abidjan, Cotonou ou encore Bamako. Attendu depuis plusieurs mois, ce plan d'aide à la France va permettre à la compagnie aérienne de continuer à opérer, mais elle devra revoir certains de ses vols et libérer des créneaux.
Reports that Stanislav Orlov was killed by Moscow security services highlights careful managing of non-state power
Beneath the frescoed ceilings and golden icons of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, hundreds of men packed tightly into the lower hall as priests intoned prayers for the dead. Dressed in dark winter jackets, the mourners on Monday filled one of Russia’s most sacred spaces – a church usually reserved for moments of state ritual and national commemoration. Later, near his grave, the crowd lit bright flares and shouted: “One for all, and all for one.”
They had gathered to bid farewell to Stanislav Orlov, better known by his callsign “Spaniard”, the founder of the far-right Española unit – a formation of football hooligans and neo-Nazi volunteers who fought as a paramilitary force on Russia’s side in Ukraine.
With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning
In 1932, the Berlin-born writer Gabriele Tergit set out to memorialise what she saw as a disappearing world: the lives and fates of the city’s Jews. By 1945, after fleeing the Nazis first to Czechoslovakia, then Palestine, then Britain, Tergit had finished her novel, but it took until 1951 for The Effingers to be published. Even then, only a few German booksellers wanted it in their shops. It was too strange a piece of work for a German public that had watched, if not participated, in the Holocaust.
Though overlooked at the time, it has been rediscovered as a classic in Germany, and has now been published in English for the first time. It is a chronicle of three affluent Jewish families in Berlin between 1878 and 1942, with an epilogue set in 1948, based on Tergit’s return visit to her destroyed city. Tergit understood how dangerous the Nazis were. She was a court reporter and covered Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels on trial in the 1920s – this also made her a target, and she fled Berlin after narrowly escaping an SA (“Brownshirts”) raid in March 1933.
Quelques mois après avoir reconnu l'État de Palestine, la Belgique a rejoint la procédure intentée par l'Afrique du Sud contre Israël auprès de la Cour internationale de justice, et qui accuse l'État hébreu de génocide, a annoncé la CIJ mardi 23 décembre 2025.
Quelques mois après avoir reconnu l'État de Palestine, la Belgique a rejoint la procédure intentée par l'Afrique du Sud contre Israël auprès de la Cour internationale de justice, et qui accuse l'État hébreu de génocide, a annoncé la CIJ mardi 23 décembre 2025.
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
The state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”
Pontiff calls for ‘day of peace’ on Christmas Day; two Moscow police injured in suspected explosion near site of general’s killing. What we know on day 1,400
Pope Leo XIV has called for a global truce on Christmas Day, expressing “great sadness” that “apparently Russia rejected a request” for one. “I am renewing my request to all people of good will to respect a day of peace – at least on the feast of the birth of our saviour,” Leo told reporters at his residence near Rome on Tuesday. Russia has repeatedly rejected calls for a ceasefire in its war on Ukraine, saying that would only give a military advantage to Kyiv. The pope said: “Among the things that cause me great sadness is the fact that Russia has apparently rejected a request for a truce.” Referring to conflicts in general, Leo said: “I hope they will listen and there will be 24 hours of peace in the whole world.”
Two police officers were injured in an “incident” in Moscow near where a senior Russian general was killed this week, authorities said on Wednesday, with local media reporting that an explosion occurred. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it was “establishing the circumstances of an incident in southern Moscow that injured two traffic police officers”, adding that “medical and explosive examinations” were being carried out. The area was cordoned off and had a large police presence, according to images broadcast on Russian television, which quoted witnesses describing an explosion that occurred at around 1.30am local time. Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed on Monday when a bomb exploded under his car in southern Moscow, Russian investigators said, adding they were looking at possible involvement by Ukrainian special services.
A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine has killed three people and cut power to several Ukrainian regions two days before Christmas and as the country enters a period of very cold weather, report Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer. Russia sent more than 650 drones and more than 30 missiles into Ukraine in the attack, which began overnight and continued into Tuesday morning, local officials said. At least three people were killed, including a four-year-old child. Poland scrambled fighter jets to protect its airspace during the strike, the country’s army said. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram: “A strike before Christmas, when people want to be with their families, at home, in safety … Putin cannot accept the fact that we must stop killing.”
Ukraine struck Russian oil and gas infrastructure, hitting a petrochemical plant in southern Russia’s Stavropol region. Regional governor Vladimir Vladimirov said a fire had engulfed the industrial area, while footage on Russian media channels showed towering flames there.
The attacks came after weekend talks in Miami involving Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian and Ukrainian representatives in separate meetings, which Witkoff called “constructive” but that showed no apparent breakthroughs. Zelenskyy said he was briefed on the state of the talks on Tuesday and that “several draft documents have now been prepared”, including an outline for ending the war, options for Ukraine’s future security guarantees and plans for the country’s postwar reconstruction.
Ukraine pulled out troops from a town in the east after fierce battles, the military said on Tuesday. Kyiv had to withdraw the forces from Siversk, a town in the embattled Donetsk region on the way to two last strongholds held by Ukraine. Russia announced the capture of Siversk almost two weeks ago. The Ukrainian army said that “to preserve the lives of our soldiers and the combat capability of our units, Ukrainian defenders have withdrawn from the settlement” of Siversk, adding that fighting was still ongoing on the outskirts.
A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant’s director has said. Sergiy Tarakanov told Agence France-Presse that fully restoring the shelter could take three to four years and warned that another Russian strike could cause the inner shell to collapse. “If a missile or drone hits it directly, or even falls somewhere nearby – for example, an Iskander [short-range ballistic missile], God forbid – it will cause a mini-earthquake in the area,” he said in an interview conducted last week. “No one can guarantee that the shelter facility will remain standing after that. That is the main threat.”
MILAN — The European Space Agency announced plans to hire approximately 520 new staff members starting in 2026, following decisions approved at ESA’s 342nd Council meeting earlier this month. The recruitment will result in a net increase of about 400 staff, alongside the replacement of roughly 120 positions due to retirements. The move will bring […]
Libyan PM says Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad died after aircraft lost radio contact above Ankara
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has been killed in a plane crash after leaving Turkey’s capital, Ankara.
The prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government confirmed on Tuesday evening that Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad had died and that four others were on the jet with him.
L'armée ukrainienne a annoncé, mardi 23 décembre, s'être retirée de la ville de Siversk, dans l'est de l'Ukraine, face aux assauts des troupes russes. Moscou avait revendiqué la capture de cette localité jeudi 11 décembre.
Le Danemark enverra bientôt quelque 300 prisonniers, dans des cellules au Kosovo. Soit à quelque 2 000 kilomètres plus au sud. L’accord qui a pour but de désengorger les prisons surpeuplées rapportera 200 millions d’euros au petit pays des Balkans, soit quatre fois le budget du ministère de la Justice. (Rediffusion)
La tendance se confirme mois après mois sur le marché européen des véhicules électriques. Tandis que BYD enchaîne les progressions spectaculaires, Tesla continue de perdre du terrain. Les dernières données publiées par l’Association des constructeurs européens d’automobiles (ACEA) pour le mois de novembre ne laissent guère de place au doute.
Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrant
The chief minister of Gibraltar made a series of “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions to interfere in a live criminal investigation in order to protect his friend, mentor and business partner from the consequences of a search warrant, a public inquiry has found.
The retired England and Wales high court judge and inquiry chair, Sir Peter Openshaw, concluded that Fabian Picardo acted to protect James Levy KC when police were at Hassans law firm, where Levy was a senior partner, with a search warrant.
La tendance se confirme mois après mois sur le marché européen des véhicules électriques. Tandis que BYD enchaîne les progressions spectaculaires, Tesla continue de perdre du terrain. Les dernières données publiées par l’Association des constructeurs européens d’automobiles (ACEA) pour le mois de novembre ne laissent guère de place au doute.
Ibtissem B. et Mariam N. sont accusées d'avoir transporté près de 25 kg de cannabis depuis la Thaïlande ont été condamnées à dix ans de prison chacune mardi 23 décembre en Turquie. Leurs avocats et leurs proches assurent qu'elles ignoraient ce qu'elles transportaient.
Après la France et la Commission européenne, c’est au tour de l’Italie de sanctionner Apple pour abus de position dominante. Une fois de plus, les règles imposées aux développeurs d’applications via l’App Store sont mises en cause, et plus précisément le dispositif App Tracking Transparency, présenté par Apple comme un pilier de la protection de […]
Le procureur général géorgien a annoncé l’arrestation mardi matin 23 décembre de Grigol Lilouachvili, l’un des plus influents responsables politiques de ces dernières années. L’ex-ministre est accusé de corruption. C’est le dernier épisode d’une série d’arrestations d’anciens proches de Bidzina Ivanichvili, l’homme fort du pays.
Après la France et la Commission européenne, c’est au tour de l’Italie de sanctionner Apple pour abus de position dominante. Une fois de plus, les règles imposées aux développeurs d’applications via l’App Store sont mises en cause, et plus précisément le dispositif App Tracking Transparency, présenté par Apple comme un pilier de la protection de […]
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