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The Maidan, Kyiv's Independence Square, has been the heart of political change in Ukraine for more than two decades. While visiting NPR's team covering Ukraine correspondent Joanna Kakissis and producers Hanna Palamarenko and Polina Lytvynova I went back to the square, where history-making news events have drawn me for over two decades. Memories flooded back of two people-power revolutions against Kremlin influence.

The aircraft turned out to be a Russian IL-20M reconnaissance plane. After visually identifying it, the Bundeswehr [German military] handed over the escort to our Swedish NATO partners @SwedenNato and returned to Rostock-Laage,

Russian drones entering Polish airspace was "an intentional act" meant to test the U.S. and NATO allies and send a "warning," says Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO. "You don't have that number of drones and that distance into Poland without it being deliberate by the Russian side," Volker, who served as NATO Ambassador under former President George W. Bush, said in an interview with Morning Edition.

Well, we have a large army - over 200,000 - and we did provide a brigade for Iraq, where we were in charge of an international division, and a brigade in Afghanistan. But this is different. We are already managing a huge logistical operation. Ninety-five percent of what Ukraine gets goes through Poland. And so this time, we see our usefulness as protecting that operation on our own territory.

I heard a loud noise, and then I woke up in the rubble and I felt the pain,

I think it's the largest wood building in Sweden,

"Even if I would stay there [in Romania], I didn't know exactly what to do there further. And I decided that it's going to be better for me here not to know what to do yet."

"It is a historic step that reinforces our nation's autonomy in access to space and assigns us a strategic responsibility towards Europe," said Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo. "We are ready to meet this challenge with determination, and we are investing in technologies, expertise, and infrastructure to ensure a competitive service."

A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck Italy's Campi Flegrei region and Naples on Friday at 9.14am, causing panic among residents but no immediate damage or injuries.

Cristobal Montoro established an economic team linked to the finance ministry, which allegedly took kickbacks from energy companies for favorable government policies, totaling at least €11 million.

OECD data from 2024 shows that France worked an average of 666 hours per capita, compared with 724 hours in Germany. Both countries are slackers by European standards - the European Union average is 776 hours.

Research from Vitrifi indicates that only 3% of fibre broadband operators have fully automated their service provisioning and activation, leading to high costs and customer frustration.

Franco felt obliged to make a gesture of some sort during the Second World War. In an act of solidarity with Nazi Germany, he agreed to put Spain's clocks forward by an hour.