Warsaw / AFP Troops hit the ground in Poland on Tuesday as Warsaw kicked off its largest-ever joint military exercises with its NATO allies, aimed at shoring up regional security amid the West’s worst standoff with Russia since the end of the Cold War. The two-week long Anaconda manoeuvres are aimed at “checking the alliance’s ability to defend its …

  Saint-Denis / AFP At least five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a building fire in a suburb of Paris, the fire service said. A further nine people had less serious injuries following the blaze in Saint-Denis, to the north of the French capital, a spokesman said. Firefighters at the scene were unable to identify the …

  Athens / AFP Dozens of asylum seekers set fire to a migrants’ centre on the Greek island of Chios, angry that they were being kept there, a police source said. Some 40 asylum seekers set fire to two large tents set up by humanitarian groups as well as dustbins at the Souda centre, the source said, in protest at …