US and Lithuanian agencies warn Kasparov of assassination plot
Garry Kasparov said US and Lithuanian security services warned him and fellow activist Ivan Tyutrin that their lives were in danger.
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Latvian couple arrested for spying and photographing military base
Latvia's security service detained a couple accused of spying for Russia's GRU and photographing the Adāži base that hosts NATO troops.
12 independent sources · 73% confidenceStation fire damages safety equipment and halts rail traffic in Žilina
A Wednesday fire at Žilina railway station damaged safety equipment and cable shafts, halting freight and forcing bus replacements for regional routes.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceKyiv school hit by Russian drone; Zelensky calls strikes on schools deliberate
A Russian drone hit a Kyiv school on Thursday while children sheltered, and a separate drone struck a nuclear research institute, as Zelensky called the strikes on schools deliberate.
31 independent sources · 98% confidenceDeliberate fire destroys Nantes school hall; unrest reportedly reaches Belgium
A fire set deliberately gutted the entrance hall of Lýcée Nelson Mandela in Nantes as French school protests continued into a third day.
15 independent sources · 98% confidenceFatal drug overdoses in Paris nearly double in 2026, prosecutor says
Paris prosecutors recorded 59 fatal drug overdoses in the city by 28 September, nearly double the 30 deaths recorded in all of 2025.
13 independent sources · 98% confidenceRussian strike damages Odesa business centre overnight, injures one
Russian forces attacked Odesa overnight, damaging a business centre and injuring one person, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
8 independent sources · 98% confidenceWreckage marked Geran-4 found after drone explosion in Moldova
Police found drone wreckage marked Geran-4, plus three craters, near Ivancea after a drone crossed into Moldova for the third time in a day.
4 independent sources · 83% confidenceMystery envelope from Germany sickens seven at Polish military post
Seven people, three taken to hospital, fell ill after a package from Germany was opened at a Military Police post in Nowa Dęba, Poland, media reported.
1 independent sources · 55% confidenceLithuania rehearses Vilnius evacuation in drill against Russian invasion
Lithuania is running a nationwide exercise rehearsing its response to a potential invasion from Russia and Belarus, including the evacuation of the capital.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceSmoke from field fire causes 14-car pile-up on Serbian motorway
Reduced visibility from smoke drifting off burning farmland caused a chain-reaction crash involving 14 vehicles near Šimanovci, Serbia, injuring 11 people.
1 independent sources · 30% confidenceUS denies plan to pull up to 40,000 troops from Europe
US ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker denied Washington is preparing to withdraw up to 40,000 troops, as the Pentagon left key allies out of a meeting on NATO's future.
4 independent sources · 44% confidenceRussia calls European arms factories making weapons for Ukraine targets
Russia's foreign ministry said European factories producing weapons for Ukraine, including a planned Patriot missile plant in Poland, are potential military targets.
1 independent sources · 40% confidenceSweden to send Gripen jets back to Poland for NATO air policing
Sweden's government said its Gripen fighters will again help guard Poland's airspace from October, a two-month mission responding to repeated NATO airspace violations.
3 independent sources · 59% confidenceMI5 warns UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research
MI5 said a Chinese front company funded more than 100 UK-linked academics to gain access to sensitive technology research for Chinese intelligence.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceBlast at Antwerp home leaves six in hospital, including a toddler
An explosive device was set off at the front door of a house in Antwerp's Luchtbal district overnight, injuring six residents.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceThree hurt in Russian drone attack on Brovary, Kyiv region
Three residents of Brovary were injured in a Russian drone attack on Wednesday morning, Kyiv Oblast's military administration said.
2 independent sources · 74% confidenceSecond tremor rattles Thebes a day after magnitude-4 earthquake
A magnitude-3.8 tremor struck near Thebes on Thursday afternoon, a day after a larger quake in the same area, both felt in the Athens region.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceFire at cleaning-product factory in Mersin brought under control
A fire broke out at a cleaning-products factory in Mersin, Turkey, on Wednesday morning and was extinguished after a two-and-a-half-hour operation.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceRussian missile kills child, injures three in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region
A missile strike destroyed a home in Vyshhorod overnight, killing a child and injuring three more people, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceMan, 39, arrested after bomb threat at Dutch air base, no explosive found
A 39-year-old man was arrested at Leeuwarden air base after telling security he had a bomb; a bag he left behind was declared safe.
7 independent sources · 98% confidenceRutte says he does not take Russia's Kaliningrad nuclear threat seriously
NATO chief Mark Rutte says the alliance faces no immediate danger, as Bulgaria's president and the EU's defence chief clashed over how to answer Russia.
22 independent sources · 98% confidenceSlovak court jails young man 25 years for 2025 school knife attack
A court in Slovakia sentenced a young man to 25 years in prison on Wednesday for a knife attack that killed two people at a school in January 2025.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceHackers copied 26,000 internal documents from city of Vienna
Vienna's city government said hackers copied about 26,000 internal documents, including data on roughly 6,000 people, in a cyberattack detected in early September.
2 independent sources · 54% confidenceZelensky urges US to impose new sanctions after 277-drone Russian attack
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched 277 attack drones on Ukraine since Saturday and urged Washington to impose new sanctions, calling the strikes terrorism.
3 independent sources · 63% confidenceMontpellier's Lez river peaks as flooding eases in Hérault and Gard
The Lez river reached 4.32 metres as 25 people were moved to safety and fire crews took 1,100 calls during a red flood alert in southern France.
5 independent sources · 54% confidencePolice hunt man after gunfire during clinic dispute in Pardubice
Police in the Czech city of Pardubice are searching for a man who fired a gas weapon during a dispute at a medical clinic on Wednesday; no one was hurt.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceCyprus rescuers save 21 people after rowing boat capsizes off Limassol
All 21 people aboard a rowing boat were rescued after it capsized off Limassol's Dasoudi beach on Monday morning, authorities said.
4 independent sources · 83% confidenceLatvia would host NATO nuclear weapons if alliance decides, president says
Latvia would support deploying nuclear weapons on its territory if NATO decided to do so, President Edgars Rinkēvičs says, though no such talks are under way.
13 independent sources · 98% confidenceEU set to expand Libya naval mission to counter Russia's shadow fleet
The EU is preparing to widen its Mediterranean naval mission to give it a formal role tracking Russia's shadow fleet and guarding undersea cables.
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