Peter Graff

Lithuania is ready to pay the cost to set up a permanent ​US military base if Washington should ‌agree to establish one there, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said on Tuesday.

Spain's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday it had alerted prosecutors to an Amnesty International report alleging the military tortured or mistreated migrants ​in Ceuta, and ordered an internal probe into whether any personnel ‌were to blame.

Ukrainian forces have launched an offensive operation in the north of the eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of intense battles during more ​than four years of the war, a senior military commander said on ‌Tuesday.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday rejected French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's plan to ​cancel a portion of France's national debt, calling ‌it "financially dangerous" and legally impossible under EU law.

The German economy likely grew modestly in the second quarter, despite headwinds from the war in the Middle East, as its vast industrial ​sector remained relatively resilient and consumers kept spending, the Bundesbank said in ‌a monthly report.

European Central Bank policymakers called for vigilance in setting interest rates on Wednesday but stopped short of advocating for tighter policy, noting long-feared ​second-round inflation effects had yet to materialise.

A Russian attack ​on a ‌Togolese-flagged civilian merchant vessel ​killed ​three crew and injured ⁠five, ​Ukraine's Deputy ​Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said ​on Monday.

Crowds of Iranians marched through the streets of Tehran on Monday in a funeral ​procession for slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the biggest day yet in a week of massive memorial ceremonies demonstrating the ‌grip of surviving clerical leaders.

Ukrainian attacks have caused fuel shortages to spread from Russian-annexed Crimea ​to nearby parts of southern Russia, and even to the capital Moscow, ‌which has previously been spared, residents say.

The suspected gunman, an Israeli Arab, was also killed, police said.