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Secret police files released in Hungary, 47 years after fall of communism

Péter Magyar/FacebookNick Thorpein Budapest32 minutes agoHungary has opened communist-era secret police files to the public, in a controversial move the government says will help Hungarian society...

Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say

US Government / Handout via REUTERSDan JohnsonUkraine correspondent in Kyiv23 October 2026Ukrainians held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard have said they witnessed him being beaten and...

Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say

US Government / Handout via REUTERSDan JohnsonUkraine correspondent in Kyiv11 minutes agoUkrainians held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard have said they witnessed him being beaten and...

Surveillance and 'constant paranoia': Western diplomats tell BBC of life in war-time Moscow

BBC/Getty ImagesLiza FokhtSenior reporter, BBC News Russian7 hours ago"Being the ambassador to Russia was probably the hardest assignment of my career," Lynne Tracy, who represented the US in Moscow...

They fled Russia, but the West sent them back

AFP via Getty ImagesWill Vernon16 October 2026, 05:57 BSTRussian security services were waiting when the flight landed in Moscow in December. On board were Russians the US had deported, including...

They fled Russia, but the West sent them back

AFP via Getty ImagesWill Vernon1 hour agoRussian security services were waiting when the flight landed in Moscow in December. On board were Russians the US had deported, including activists denied...

South Korea recalls Ukraine envoy over prisoner-of-war row

Getty ImagesYvette Tan1 hour agoSouth Korea has said it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, the latest escalation in a diplomatic spat between both countries. It started last month when Ukrainian...

Seoul summons Ukraine envoy over North Korean prisoner-of-war row

Reuters/EPAJake KwonSeoul correspondent28 September 2026South Korea has summoned Ukraine's acting ambassador after President Volodymyr Zelensky last week announced his government had transferred two...

'I was lured into a trap': Evan Gershkovich on moment that led to 16 months in Russian jail

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedTiffany Wertheimer46 minutes agoUS journalist Evan Gershkovich has said that he knew he was being set up...

Seoul summons Ukraine envoy over North Korean prisoner-of-war row

Getty ImagesJake KwonSeoul correspondent32 minutes agoSouth Korea has summoned Ukraine's acting ambassador after President Volodymyr Zelensky last week announced his government had transferred two...

105-year-old investigated for crimes at Nazi PoW camp in Germany

APPaul KirbyEurope digital editor52 minutes agoGerman prosecutors are investigating a man aged 105 over allegations that he was an accessory to multiple counts of murder at a Nazi prisoner of war...

Ukraine's postal workers deliver lifeline under Russian fire

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedJames LandaleZaporizhzhia oblast15 September 2026Every morning Igor Smelyansky looks at a vast map of...

Ukraine's postal workers deliver lifeline under Russian fire

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedJames LandaleZaporizhzhia oblast2 hours agoEvery morning Igor Smelyansky looks at a vast map of Ukraine on...

Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

Frank GardnerSecurity correspondentThe first duty of a government, countless leaders over the decades have said, is to safeguard its population. On 11 September 2001 the US manifestly failed to do...

Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts

Global Images Ukraine via Getty ImagesTim Whewell and Serhiy Solodko, in Odesa6 September 2026Ukraine's third-biggest city Odesa will decide this week whether to back a controversial...