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Albanian court dismisses PM Rama’s deputy over corruption charges

20 Nov 2025

TIRANA (Reuters) -A court in Albania removed Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku from office on Thursday after she was indicted by prosecutors over her alleged role in selecting a company to build a government-financed tunnel, the court said in a statement. There was no immediate reaction from Balluku. However, during a parliamentary session on Wednesday, she …

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Israeli fire kills five in Gaza, casting further doubt on ceasefire

20 Nov 2025

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes killed five people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, after Hamas and Israel accused each other of violating an increasingly fragile near six-week-old truce. Medics said that one strike on a house in Bani Suhaila town …

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Kosovo president sets December 28 as date for snap vote

20 Nov 2025

PRISTINA (Reuters) -Kosovo’s president, Vjosa Osmani, set December 28 as the date for an early parliamentary election on Thursday, after the ruling Vetevendosje party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti failed to secure enough votes in the parliament to form a government. Kosovo’s parliament has not been able to form the government since a February election, …

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France pushes EU sanctions against drug-linked organised crime

20 Nov 2025

By Dominique Vidalon and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) -France’s foreign minister on Thursday proposed the creation of a European Union sanctions regime to tackle cross-border organised drug crime that he said was sweeping across the bloc. “These sanctions will hit them where it hurts, namely in their wallets, to eradicate the problem at its root,” …

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Zelenskiy says 22 people missing at the site of Russian attack in western Ukraine

20 Nov 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that 22 people were missing at the site of Wednesday’s Russian attack on the western city of Ternopil. “As of now, 26 people are confirmed dead, including three children,” Zelenskiy wrote on X, adding that the overnight search-and-rescue operation continued into the morning. (Reporting by Anastasiia …

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Russian strikes plunge 400,000 Ukrainians into darkness, energy officials say

20 Nov 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -More than 400,000 Ukrainian consumers remained without electricity as of midday on Thursday following a recent large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine’s western regions, energy officials said. The attack led to a decrease in electricity production at Ukrainian nuclear power plants.  Russia has sharply increased the intensity and number of its attacks on Ukrainian …

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Russia and Ukraine exchange bodies of dead soldiers

20 Nov 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia have carried out a new exchange of bodies of dead soldiers, Ukrainian officials and Russian state media said on Thursday. Ukraine said it received 1,000 bodies and Russian state news agency TASS quoted an unidentified source as saying Moscow got back 30. “Investigators from law enforcement bodies, together with expert …

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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions

20 Nov 2025

(Reuters) -Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, calling for urgent international measures to hold Israeli officials accountable and stop further abuses. The rights group said about 32,000 residents of Jenin, …

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