London (04/11 – 67) US district judge, Denise Cote yesterday granted Sri Lanka’s request for a six-month halt on a creditor lawsuit against the country. Hamilton Reserve Bank, an obscure and tiny St Kitt’s bank with interesting ties, says it has accumulated a big chunk of one of...
Poles will vote next Sunday in what opposition leader Donald Tusk has billed as their “most important election since 1989 and the fall of communism”. The populist, right-wing United Right coalition, led by the Law and Justice party is seeking a third term in office...
Europe’s oldest student newspaper has been saved from closure after an online fundraiser raised more than £2,000. Edinburgh University’s the Student was founded by Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1887. It is financially independent from both the university and...
Two Swedish nationals have been shot dead and a third person injured in Brussels, in an attack which prosecutors are treating as terrorism. The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match being played in the city was abandoned. Brussels is on its highest terror alert as the gunman...
Berlin’s Jewish community has been shaken by two petrol bombs thrown at a synagogue amid a spike in antisemitic incidents in some European countries. Police said two people threw “burning bottles filled with liquid” in what was described as attempted arson. “We...
