Užsienio reikalų ministerija (URM) penktadienį Rusijos ambasados Lietuvoje atstovui įteikė griežto protesto notą dėl pastarosiomis dienomis surengtų masinių atakų prieš Ukrainą, per kurias buvo taikomasi į civilius gyventojus ir infrastruktūrą.

Ukrainos saugumo tarnyba (SBU) surengė ataką prieš karinius aerodromus okupuotame Kryme. Antrą kartą per savaitę buvo smogta naikintuvams Sakų karinėje oro pajėgų bazėje, taip pat suduotas smūgis angarams Hvardijsko aerodrome.

Forecasters are warning of further extreme temperatures on the continent in the next few days.

Officials in Monaco say they believe she was "disguised as a man" and may not have acted alone.

Employers are being urged to use their "common sense" to allow staff to work flexibly where they can.

Wedding lists are being replaced by cash requests, but guests are divided over how much to give.

Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu announced his resignation on Friday, putting an end to the pro-European government he led since last November. “I accepted the proposal to be Prime Minister with great responsibility and with the firm belief that I can contribute to changing things for the better,” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page. “But the moment I understood that I could no longer exercise my mandate in accordance with the principles and beliefs I have, I chose to leave.” Moldovan President Maia Sandu appointed Munteanu to the premiership in November of last year. Both politicians backed policies geared toward facilitating the Eastern European country’s speedy accession into the EU. But Munteanu’s stint as head of the country’s government was undermined by scandals that have rocked Moldova’s ministries and state-owned enterprises. Last month Dumitru Vangeli, head of the MOLDATSA civil aviation safety agency, was dismissed after his university diploma and pilot’s license was determined to be forged. On Thursday Ministry of Agriculture State Secretary Tatiana Nistorică was detained on suspicion of bribery. Vangeli publically denied the accusations, while Nistorică has not yet commented on her case. At the press conference following Munteanu’s resignation Sandu said she expected “greater involvement in difficult decisions, a stronger public presence to listen to people’s concerns.” She also pushed back against Munteanu’s statement implying that he had not been free to address the challenges the country faces. “Speculation that he wanted to combat abuses but was not permitted to do so is false,” she said. “The prime minister had a free hand to run the government as he saw fit.” The president also said she would hold consultations with party leaders next week in a bid to name the country’s next prime minister, whom she said would also focus on pro-European policies. “Moldova’s path remains unchanged: reforms and EU accession,” she wrote on X. Moldova was accepted as a candidate for EU accession in 2022, and last month the bloc’s member countries voted in favor of opening the first cluster of accession negotiations with Chișinău. Sandu has been the most visible face of the pro-EU drive, and leads the political opposition to the pro-Russian Party of Socialists, which is currently the country’s second-largest party.

U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White insisted Brussels’ Parc du Cinquantenaire was left spotless after his lavish celebration marking 250 years of American independence, as Belgian authorities probe whether fireworks damaged one of the capital’s historic buildings. “We are in immediate contact with the Belgian company that was hired to coordinate all event logistics, including the fireworks company,” White wrote on X on Friday. He said the contractor would “remediate where it is required” and insisted that “Cinquantenaire has never looked any cleaner than it was the day after we cleaned up after our event,” posting photographs of the park looking immaculate. More than 8,800 invited guests attended the June 28 celebration — one of the biggest diplomatic receptions ever staged in Brussels — organized by White, featuring a large fireworks display beneath the triumphal arch and a gala held in Cinquantenaire’s Royal Museum of Art and History building. The ambassador’s response came after Flemish newspapers De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad reported that Belgium’s Buildings Agency had opened an investigation into possible damage to the museum. According to the newspapers, inspectors found firework debris on the roof, scorch marks on parts of the building and minor damage to a statue. A spokesperson for the Buildings Agency declined to comment to the Belgian outlets on the scope of any repair work: “That will depend on the results of all analyses.” Belgian Buildings Minister Vanessa Matz has urged caution, saying investigators must first determine whether any damage was caused by the fireworks display or by the severe thunderstorm that swept across Brussels the previous night. The celebration reportedly cost around €5 million, with White raising the money from roughly 220 Belgian and American companies.

Anastasiia Berezovska is named as the chief suspect responsible for injuring Ukrainian tycoon Vadym Yermolaiev.

World Cup cohosts Canada face mighty Morocco in their first-ever last-16 appearance at the FIFA World Cup.

Prosecutors issue international arrest warrant for woman believed to have fled to Germany

Proposed EU law threatens investment in the bloc, warns carmaker Xpeng

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Mateo Jaramillo Ortega, ICRC Regional Spokesperson for Eastern Africa. He asserts that '"civilian suffering in Sudan is not inevitable: much of the harm over the past three years, since the beginning of combat in Khartoum, and nowadays in al-Obeid, could have been prevented had the laws of war, and international humanitarian law, been respected."

Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan around the besieged city of al-Obeid, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday, warning of a pattern of ​atrocities and urging ‌the world to act. Al-Obeid is the capital of North Kordofan state, a ⁠focus of recent fighting in a war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began more than three years ago and has caused a ‌vast humanitarian crisis.

In a diplomatic note to the African Union seen by Reuters, the US has vowed to block any spending of UN funds on the AU Support ​and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).

Mali has created a new state agency to regulate its booming artisanal gold sector after uncovering major discrepancies between officially declared exports and imports reported abroad.