Image released by the Royal Thai Navy shows Thai cargo ship, Mayuree Naree, that was struck and set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. Image credit: Royal Thai Navy Oil prices spiked again overnight as promises to release emergency supplies Read more
Rob Jetten, leader of the D66 party. Image credit: AP Four months after a dramatic election that saw the far right lose a third of their seats, a new government has taken office in the Netherlands. A liberal-centre right coalition Read more
Nato’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said the new mission will “bring together Nato and allied activities in the High North”. Image credit: AP Nato has announced a new mission to protect the Arctic including Greenland, just weeks after Donald Trump Read more
US President Donald Trump has ruled out invading Greenland during a much-anticipated speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos. “People thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force, I don’t want to use force, I won’t use force,” Read more
The UK government has reached a deal with the EU to rejoin the Erasmus+ student exchange programme. The programme allows British students to live and study in EU countries for up to a year, and for EU nationals to do Read more
Andrej Babiš Populist politician and billionaire Andrej Babiš has been sworn in as prime minister of the Czech Republic, the latest thorn in the side of the European Union. Babiš stood for election on a Trump-inspired ‘Czechia first’ platform that Read more
Image credit: AP France will introduce voluntary conscription from next summer, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. Standing in front of a line-up from the Mountain Infantry Brigade in Varces, near Grenoble, the French president said: “Whenever history demands it, the Read more
Excess heat from data centres, geothermal sources and industry could be converted into district heating for neighbourhoods all over Ireland, according to a new joint project launched by the government together with the EU. More than 80 percent of Irish Read more
Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have banned imports of agricultural products from Ukraine. New laws, in all three countries, came into force on Monday. Hungary‘s junior agricultural minister said “all grain shipments coming from Ukraine to Hungary by road and rail Read more
The EU’s Home Affairs Commissioner says the European Union has no intention of emulating the UK’s Rwanda policy. So far, the UK has been unable to send migrants to Africa for ‘off shore processing’. The planned first flight was cancelled Read more