The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its ...

which is now the most right-wing government in Italy since World War II. Trump praised her on Saturday night, saying she has "really taken Europe by storm." There were no details released about ...

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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, speaks at the press conference during the European Council Meeting on December 19, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine ...

Many Viking Age people across southern Scandinavia carried ancestry from central Europe. The findings suggest that repeated conflicts and unrest in Scandinavia during this period played a role in ...

The IDF says it has seen a rise in the number of suspected suicides in the military amid the war, as it releases statistics of its fatalities from the past two years. According to the IDF’s data ...

Three waves of migrations across Europe were identified in the paper. Click to enlarge. (Credit: Leo Speidel, The Francis Crick Institute) During the first half of ... showed ancestry from present-day ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...

Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of last year. Ukraine's energy minister ...

Russian gas supplies to European Union states via Ukraine have been halted, shutting down Moscow's oldest gas route to the continent. The five-year gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine ...