Turkey: Forty-seven on trial over deaths of ten babies

Forty-seven people have gone on trial in Turkey in connection with an alleged scam in which newborns were transferred between hospitals for profit. Prosecutors say doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers…

Germany: Defence Minister suspect sabotage behind severed undersea cables

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea looks like an act of sabotage and a “hybrid action”, without knowing who is…

Abkhazia: President Aslan Bzhania resigns

The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia is resigning after days of mass protests over a controversial pro-Russia bill. Aslan Bzhania’s press office said he was quitting “to maintain…

Georgia: Police clear protesters challenging ‘stolen’ election

Police in Georgia have clashed with demonstrators in the centre of the capital Tbilisi protesting against last month’s disputed election which they say was stolen by the government. The protesters…

Ukraine: Kyiv vows to ‘never submit’ as war reaches 1,000th day

Ukraine and Russia have both declared that they will fight until victory as they marked 1,000 days of war. Kyiv insisted on Tuesday that it will “never submit” in defending against Moscow’s…

South Sudan: Acute food insecurity to hit most people next year- UN

Almost 60 percent of South Sudan’s population will be acutely food insecure next year, with more than two million children at risk of malnutrition, warns data from a United Nations-backed…

Lebanon: US envoy Amos Hochstein says Israel-Hezbollah truce ‘within our grasp

United States envoy Amos Hochstein says there is a “real opportunity” to bring the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel to an end as he visits Lebanon to discuss a ceasefire. Hochstein made…

India: Tribes seek to bring back ancestral skulls from UK

Last month, Ellen Konyak was shocked to discover that a 19th-Century skull from the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland was up for auction in the UK. The horned skull of…

Russia: Moscow warns Ukraine’s ATACMS attacks mark ‘new phase’ of war

Russia has said that Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a “new phase of the Western war” against Moscow, and has said it will react “accordingly”. Ukraine used…

China: Car driven into crowd outside primary school

Multiple injuries are feared after a car was driven into a crowd of people outside a primary school in China’s souther Hunan province. There are no details of casualties yet…