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Poland dismisses 50 envoys appointed by old right-wing government

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the move is “not a retaliation” against the former Law and Justice administration.

March 14, 2024 9:54 am CET

The US privately told Israel the kind of Rafah campaign it could support

How Israeli forces go into Rafah will impact the state of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

March 14, 2024 4:51 am CET

Revealed: Navalny’s final plan to cause ‘maximum damage’ to Putin

Before his death, the opposition leader laid out a strategy to challenge the Russian president.

March 14, 2024 4:30 am CET

Freed Belgian aid worker sets up fund to ‘protect the protecters’

Olivier Vandecasteele was jailed in Iran for more than a year, and now wants to help fellow aid workers.

March 14, 2024 4:00 am CET

Ursula von der Leyen’s reelection campaign gets off to a bumpy start

The German politician’s campaign apparatus isn’t yet in place but rivals — and frenemies — are on the attack.

March 14, 2024 4:00 am CET

Wilders abandons pursuit of Netherlands PM job

Coalition talks had reached impasse after other party leaders refused to support far-right election winner as prime minister.

March 13, 2024 9:50 pm CET

Slovakia’s Fico cheers as pro-Putin biker gang boss is removed from EU sanctions list

The EU previously said that Jozef Hambálek trained members of his biker club for “active combat in Ukraine.”

March 13, 2024 6:20 pm CET

Elite French university boss resigns amid domestic violence accusations

The Sciences Po director continues to claim his innocence as him and his former partner are set to stand trial.

March 13, 2024 5:47 pm CET

Hammer attack on Navalny ally likely a warning to Russian opposition, Lithuania says

Authorities in the country are preparing for further incidents as Russia votes this weekend.

March 13, 2024 5:10 pm CET

Police called to EU Parliament as staffers report hearing a loud bang

Car searched by French police after it was driven up to Parliament building in Strasbourg.

March 13, 2024 4:53 pm CET

Hitler didn’t quit in 1938 and Putin won’t stop at Ukraine, Lithuanian leader warns

The European Investment Bank should fund defense companies, Gitanas Nausėda also suggested.

March 13, 2024 4:24 pm CET

PMQs scorecard: Rishi Sunak struggles to deflect questions over Tory donor’s “racist” comments

Keir Starmer went in hard on comments from Frank Hester.

March 13, 2024 1:53 pm CET
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Elon Musk wades in on Belgian far-right figure’s prison sentence

X owner’s affinity for far-right politicians continues to blossom.

March 13, 2024 9:23 am CET

Russia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims

“We have them with us all the time, constantly in a state of combat readiness,” president says, referring to Moscow’s nukes.

March 13, 2024 9:19 am CET

It’s official: Donald Trump is the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee

The former president crossed the threshold of 1,215 delegates on Tuesday night.

March 13, 2024 5:15 am CET

Meet the new Dominic Cummings preparing to take over Whitehall

UK Labour chief of staff Sue Gray looks set to become the latest all-powerful aide to dominate British politics.

March 13, 2024 4:02 am CET

An ex-diplomat and king’s head: Inside the secret global trade of Asian art

What Europe’s largest private collection of Asian art says about the trade in cultural heritage.

March 13, 2024 4:00 am CET

Biden officially clinches Democratic nomination for president

The president was always expected to be the nominee. But now he secured “presumptive” status.

March 13, 2024 12:51 am CET

Navalny’s former policy chief brutally attacked in Lithuania

Volkov had tear gas sprayed in his eyes and was beaten with a hammer, his colleagues said.

March 12, 2024 11:11 pm CET

Paris’ Olympics headache is a wake-up call for Los Angeles mayor

LA Mayor Karen Bass emerged from her trip to Paris with a sense of urgency after witnessing the struggles of the French capital in hosting the Games.

March 12, 2024 10:08 pm CET

Biden-Orbán feud heats up as Hungary summons envoy over ‘dictatorship’ diss

Budapest’s foreign minister fumes that it “is not obliged to tolerate lies, even from the president of the United States.”

March 12, 2024 6:16 pm CET

Dark Cardinal Selmayr headed for the Vatican

Martin Selmayr, once called the ‘Monster of the Berlaymont’ by his colleagues, will stay far away from Brussels with a new role.

March 12, 2024 6:10 pm CET

Polish rivals unite in DC to lobby for Ukraine military aid

Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk are coming to the White House in an “absolutely unique sign of political unity.”

March 12, 2024 6:01 pm CET

US report sees rising risk of ethnic violence in Western Balkans

Annual ODNI assessment collects worldwide threats to U.S. national security.

March 12, 2024 5:29 pm CET
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