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The announcement in January 2024 that Princess Catherine — or Kate, as she is known to her fans — had to undergo serious abdominal surgery sparked great concern among followers of the royal family. To recover from the operation, she retreated to her house in Windsor — and remained silent. The rumor mill quickly started churning. Various clues and photos were used to feed all sorts of assumptions. Then in March, Kensington Palace, Prince William and Kate’s official London residence, released a photo of a healthy, smiling Kate with her three children, to mark Mother’s Day. But news agencies flagged the photo after…

It very nearly didn’t come off. Ahead of this week’s European Union summit in Brussels, the European Commission recommended that the 27 member states approve the opening of formal EU membership talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The decision came with some last-minute drama on Wednesday, when the parliament of the traditionally enlargement-cautious Netherlands narrowly voted down a resolution opposing talks with the small Balkan state. That meant that caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was able to vote in favor of the move, along with the other 26 EU leaders, on Thursday. This was a necessary hurdle to clear, since all enlargement…

Voters in Senegal headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, after the conclusion of incumbent President Macky Sall’s second term. Sall is not competing in this race, which is taking place despite his unsuccessful attempts to postpone the vote until December. His ruling coalition has endorsed former prime minister Amadou Ba. Meanwhile, popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, disqualified from the race due to a defamation conviction, is backing former tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye.Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was disqualified from running and has backed anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye FayeImage: Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Should none of the 19 candidates running…

Russia is holding a day of national mourning following Friday’s concert hall massacre near Moscow, as relatives of the missing face an anxious wait to see if their loved ones survived the gun rampage.Public events have been cancelled and flags are being flown at half-mast following the deadliest attack on the country’s soil in two decades. Across the capital, billboards carried a picture of a single candle, the date of the assault and the words “We mourn”.Politics live: Chancellor says Russia creating ‘smokescreen of propaganda’ after Moscow attackThousands of flowers have also been left at a makeshift memorial near the…

Germany have had their fair share of difficult endings in recent years: from tournaments, from coaches and from a clutch of their World Cup winning players of 2014. But the return of one of those players, Toni Kroos, is among the signs of fresh hope for the Euro 2024 hosts. Kroos returned to the German team three years after quitting the international game in the wake of Germany’s tame exit to England in Euro 2020 (played in 2021). His impact was instant, providing a trademark searching long pass straight from kickoff, from which Florian Wirtz scored Germany’s fastest ever international goal…

Skip next section Ukraine says it hit two Russian landing ships in Sevastopol 03/24/2024March 24, 2024Ukraine says it hit two Russian landing ships in Sevastopol The Ukrainian military said it had two Russian landing ships in a strike on Sevastopol in the annexed Crimean peninsula. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully struck the amphibious landing ships Yamal and Azov, a communications center, and a number of the Black Sea Fleet’s infrastructure sites,” it said.  Earlier, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-appointed mayor of Sevastopol, said one person was killed and four were injured in the “most massive attack in recent times.” https://p.dw.com/p/4e4HsSkip next…

Britain’s Prince William and Princess Catherine, have been “enormously touched” by messages of support which have poured in since the Princess of Wales announced her cancer diagnosis, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said on Saturday. “The Prince and Princess are both enormously touched by the kind messages from people here in the UK, across the Commonwealth and around the world in response to Her Royal Highness’ message,” the Kensington Palace spokesperson said in a statement. Catherine said on Friday she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy after medical tests revealed she had cancer. The video announcement comes after she was hospitalized in January…

On Friday evening, a group of gunmen carried out an attack at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk.The venue, located northwest of central Moscow, was partially filled with people in advance of a sold-out concert.By Saturday night, at least 133 are reported to have been killed.Video filmed over the course of the attack helps paint a picture of how it was carried out. Image: The gunmen probably entered at the marked location Sky News has determined that the perpetrators likely entered the complex around 130m north of the concert hall’s foyer.Footage filmed in this location shows bodies and a set of…

The Moscow concert hall shooting on March 23 has become the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia in two decades. In the past 25 years, Russia has seen several attacks by terrorists, reportedly from Chechnya and other regions in the North Caucasus. Some were religiously motivated; some were carried out by separatists with political demands.  The fight against terror has enabled the Kremlin to consolidate power and restrict political and public freedoms. DW looks at the deadliest terror attacks in Russia’s recent history and their political consequences. Russia detais 4 suspects as death toll risesTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and…

Voters in Slovakia headed to the polls on Saturday for the first round of the country’s presidential election, which pits the Russia-leaning ruling camp against a pro-Ukraine candidate. Slovaks are electing a successor to Zuzana Caputova, the country’s first female president, after she decided not to seek a second term. The outgoing president, who has sued the country’s Prime Minister Robert Fico for labeling her a traitor, says she does not have the energy to stay on for another five years, citing threats against her family amid a turbulent period in Slovakian politics. Caputova said she hoped her successor would “represent our country abroad well.” The…