While Ukraine’s defense ministry says Denis Kireev was killed while serving in an operation to “defend the nation,” local media, two Ukrainian MPs, and Russian media say the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot him dead during an attempted arrest for treason.

Austria’s government is once more changing personnel: after its third chancellor in two years, it will now also see its third minister of health, following the departure of Wolfgang Mückstein.

OncoAlert, a global network of oncologists, has cancelled its participation in all collaborations and congresses in Russia, in response to the conflict in Ukraine.

Only bottom-up demands for accountability can strengthen Dutch liberal democracy.

A letter by the director of the German health insurer BKK ProVita caused a ruckus among medical associations for claiming that negative side effects of COVID vaccinations were severely under-reported. Now, the director has been fired.

Unlike the majority of refugees, Transcarpathian Hungarians are at least familiar with Hungary thanks to family ties or working relationships. They do not come as strangers.

An outburst of criticism accompanied this last-minute candidacy. For several weeks Emmanuel Macron has been accused of taking advantage of the pandemic, and of the war, to dodge debates about his time in office, now coming to an end.

Initially, the Home Office was only showing generosity to Ukrainians with immediate family residing in Britain. But changes to that more restrictive policy have since been announced.

Howard, the writers who influenced him, and many of those that came after in the same heroic vein seem more outside the pale of literary respectability than they would have been a century ago. It is not just the artificial divide between Literature with a capital L and popular genre fiction, or the modern disdain for the writers of the past. The even greater divide is between unironically portraying heroism in the West and despising it and deconstructing it in order to bring about its demise.