Rome’s court of appeals ordered Ossama al-Masri freed over what it said was a procedural error in his arrest. Al-Masri heads the Tripoli branch of a notorious network of government-backed detention centers. Italy has close ties to the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, on whom it relies to patrol its coasts and prevent waves of migrants from leaving. 

Russia’s representative to the International Monetary Fund’s executive board has received permission by Washington to move to the US, a reprieve from sanctions imposed in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Two people, including a two-year-old boy of Moroccan origin was killed, have been killed and three others were injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria. The suspect, a former asylum-seeker and Afghan national who was supposed to be leaving Germany, was arrested. The motive remains unknown.

Russia President Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday with China President Xi Jinping and emphasized their close ties a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president.

A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people — at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames, officials said.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Monday to “wake up” and spend more on defense in order to reduce its reliance on the United States for its security, in a speech to the French military as Donald Trump returns to power.

Donald Trump began erasing Joe Biden ‘s legacy immediately after taking office as the nation’s 47th president on Monday, pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and issuing a blizzard of executive orders that signal his desire to remake American institutions.

Poland’s six-month presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. As Europe’s biggest land war in decades rages, fewer places highlight the challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values more starkly than the border with Belarus.

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic seabed energy and communications lines.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least three people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.