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French PM pressures lawmakers to pass 2026 budget despite parliament tensions

24 Nov 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu put pressure on lawmakers on Monday to pass the 2026 budget by the end of the year after the deeply divided lower house of parliament rejected the tax side of the legislation. He said there was still time, but urged opposition lawmakers not to obstruct the legislation, which …

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Poland charges third Ukrainian with helping Russia in railway sabotage

24 Nov 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish prosecutors have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of collaborating with Russia to sabotage a rail track, they said on Monday. Poland, a major ally in Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s invasion, has already charged two other Ukrainians in absentia over the blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line connecting Warsaw to the Ukrainian border. Poland …

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Analysis-Norway’s lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go

24 Nov 2025

By Francesco Canepa and Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) -Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night. The carpenter turned real-estate tycoon says that is the price he pays to escape Norway’s beefed-up wealth tax – …

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Lithuania’s Vilnius airport reopens after balloon incident

24 Nov 2025

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s Vilnius airport said on Monday it had resumed operations after twice closing temporarily overnight due to balloons moving towards its airspace, diverting some incoming flights to other cities. European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent months by drone sightings and incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Brussels, and …

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Four killed in massive Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, officials say

24 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Russian forces staged a “massive” drone attack on Sunday on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing four people and injuring several others, officials said. “There is a massive attack on Kharkiv,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Terekhov said four people had been killed, including one person whose body was recovered from …

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Separatist candidate wins presidential vote in Bosnia’s Serb region

24 Nov 2025

By Daria Sito-Sucic BANJA LUKA/SARAJEVO, Bosnia (Reuters) -A close ally of Bosnia’s Serb Republic separatist leader Milorad Dodik won a snap presidential election in a tight race with opposition candidate, the election commission said on Sunday, citing preliminary results. “According to preliminary, unofficial and incomplete results, Sinisa Karan won 50.89% of the votes,” Jovan Kalaba, …

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Australia’s teen social media ban pushes content creators to look abroad

24 Nov 2025

By Christine Chen SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia is home for YouTube star Jordan Barclay, the place where he was born, went to school and built a company worth $50 million by age 23 that produces gaming content for 23 million subscribers. Now, with a world-first social media ban on Australian children younger than 16 set to …

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US, Ukraine say they have an ‘updated and refined’ peace framework, but questions remain

24 Nov 2025

By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow. In a joint …

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Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by Trump immigration crackdown

24 Nov 2025

By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Disha Raychaudhuri WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kateryna Golizdra has survived six months in legal limbo – so far. She thinks she can hold out another six months, waiting for Donald Trump’s administration to decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some 260,000 people who fled the war in Ukraine …

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Majority of Slovenians voted against law on assisted dying

23 Nov 2025

BELGRADE (Reuters) -As many as 53.43% Slovenians voted against a law that proposed legalising assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, the unofficial partial results by state election commission showed on Sunday. The parliament of the small European Union member passed the law in July, but a citizens’ initiative led by right-wing politician Ales Primc …

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