Closing summary
… and on that note, it’s a wrap!
Ukrainian justice and energy ministers have been forced out amid a deepening government crisis following allegations about a $100m corruption scandal in the country’s energy sector (9:55, 14:51, 15:34, 15:59, 16:31).
All 20 personnel on board of a Turkish military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia on Tuesday were killed, Turkey’s defence minister said (11:54, 12:58).
Czech president Petr Pavel has ramped up pressure on the incoming prime minister, billionaire Andrej Babiš, repeating his demand for Babiš to resolve his conflicts of interests before taking up the post (17:05).
French lawmakers voted to suspend a contested pension reform as next year’s budget bills inch through parliament under persistent threats to the government’s survival (17:48).
Search-and-rescue operations are still under way to find missing migrants desperate to get to Europe from Libya, following a deadly shipwreck in southern Greece (17:08).
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s (13:12).
And that’s all from me, Jakub Krupa, for today.
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Wars of tomorrow will begin in space, Macron says
Modern conflicts are already being fought in space and the next wars will begin there, the French president Emmanuel Macron has said as he outlined France’s future space strategy.
“The war of today is already being fought in space, and the war of tomorrow will begin in space,” Macron said in Toulouse, France’s space and aviation hub. “Let us be ready: this will be a condition for the success of military operations on land, in the air, and at sea.”
