Thousands of demonstrators supporting the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip take part in a protest outside the Kiriya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 1, 2024. Photo: Abir Sultan/EPA The leadership of Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas reached an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages. This was reported by Reuters and CNN, citing an informed official. Hamas spokesman Bassem Naim also confirmed the agreement's approval.

“New Europe” found out that an official from Crimea is behind one of these bots Russian flag over the fortress in Ivangorod, December 15, 2024.

National leaders at the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki, Finland, 14 January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / KIMMO BRANDT The leaders of eight Baltic countries met in Helsinki on Tuesday to announce the establishment of a Baltic Sentry, a joint military operation designed to protect the Baltic Sea’s underwater infrastructure following a series of suspected Russian sabotage attacks.

Derrick Ngamana. Photo: Sistema A mercenary from the Central African Republic (CAR) has died fighting for Russia in the country’s western Kursk region, the Russian language service of RFE/RL, Sistema, confirmed on Wednesday.

Due to a break in the main cable in Tatarstan, 3.8 million Russians from 21 regions had problems with the Internet. This was reported by the press service of Roskomnadzor. “On the Tyulyachi-Novaya Tura section there was a break in the main cable. Damage to the cable led to the degradation of broadband Internet access services in 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation for approximately 3.8 million users,” the report says.

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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong pays her respects at the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, Kyiv, 18 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO The Australian Foreign Ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador to Canberra amid reports that an Australian mercenary fighting for Ukraine had died at the hands of the Russian military in eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Penny Wong told Australian public broadcaster ABC on Wednesday.

Rent of one-room apartments in Russia has risen in price by a third. Why has renting a home become almost impossible? Residents stand outside new residential buildings in Moscow. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA Rent of one-room apartments throughout Russia on average has risen in price by a full third, said Pavel Lutsenko, general director of the federal portal World of Apartments. In 2025, rental prices will continue to rise, he believes.

Activists from all over Germany came to the German Riese to prevent the far right from nominating a candidate for chancellor and being elected to the Bundestag. Report "New Europe" Protest against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party congress in Riesa, January 11, 2025. Photo: Jan Woitas / dpa / picture-alliance / Scanpix / LETA Alternative for Germany chose the small town of Riesa in Saxony to hold its party congress on the eve of the upcoming parliamentary elections in February.

How Belarusian opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich began whitewashing the regime’s crimes Raman Pratasevich appears at a press briefing at the Belarusian Foreign Ministry in Minsk, 14 June 2021. Photo: AFP / Scanpix / LETA Ever since he was paraded in front of the media by the Belarusian authorities just weeks after his arrest, it was clear that the Lukashenko regime planned to get the pound of flesh it believed was owed to it by Raman Pratasevich.

In the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, a citizen of the Central African Republic (CAR), Derrick Ngamana, who fought for the Russian army, died. This follows from the notice of his death and other documents reviewed by RFE/RL and Sistema. According to journalists, a 32-year-old mercenary from the Central African Republic died on November 15 in battles for the village of Novoivanovka, Sudzhansky district.

Screenshot: social media A Moscow court has arrested a popular Russian influencer in absentia over an online video he posted last year showing him throwing his 2-month-old baby into a large, powdery snowdrift, state-owned news agency RIA Novosti has reported .

Photo: Vesti Brothers and sons of those mobilized who died in the war have the right to be exempt from conscription. This was recognized by the Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction, and the Conscript School drew attention to the decision. In April 2023, a resident of Kirovo-Chepetsk, Ivan Smolnikov, was called up for military service.

National Museum of Australia The Australian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian Ambassador to Canberra, Alexei Pavlovsky, due to reports of the death of an Australian mercenary who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was then captured. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong spoke about this.

A woman stands near a mass grave in Bucha in April 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLEG PETRASYUK The mayor of the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, has been sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison by a court in Moscow for “inciting hatred against Russians”, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Tuesday.