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WARSAW — Poland will look at gaining access to nuclear weapons and also ensure that every man undergoes military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong army to face off the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament on Friday. Poland’s dramatic military expansion comes as fears grow across […]
Read MoreBRUXELLES — Le président américain Donald Trump agit comme s’il avait toutes les cartes en main dans les négociations pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine. Mais Bruxelles a une arme secrète de 200 milliards d’euros dans sa manche. Après avoir été exclus des discussions entre les Etats-Unis et la Russie le 18 février […]
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President Donald Trump said he is “strongly considering” issuing large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia to get a cease-fire and settlement deal on the table to end the war in Ukraine. In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump put pressure on the country that so far has faced little public pushback from his administration. […]
Read MoreBRUSSELS — As a wave of violence rocks Brussels, struggling law enforcement agencies need more support from Belgian authorities to cope, the city’s public prosecutor said Tuesday. “The situation is disastrous enough, to be honest,” Julien Moinil told the Brussels regional parliament, local media reported, arguing that more resources and capacity are needed urgently for […]
Read MorePolish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that if Germany doesn’t want American troops on its soil, Poland would be happy to take them. Duda was responding to remarks by Germany’s election winner Friedrich Merz, who said that U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t care about Europe and that the continent urgently needs to strengthen its own […]
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Trump veut détruire l’UE et la reconstruire à son image Donald Trump ne traitera pas avec l’UE. L’UE ne peut pas traiter avec Trump. Par NICHOLAS VINOCURet CAMILLE GIJSà Bruxelles Illustration de Nicolás Ortega pour POLITICO Donald Trump a tenté, en vain, de trouver une faille dans l’armure de l’UE avec la guerre commerciale qu’il […]
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Ukraine’s allies in Europe are rushing to fill the void left by the Trump administration’s decision to pause its intelligence sharing with Kyiv. It isn’t going to be easy. The U.S. has provided Kyiv with everything from signals intelligence, satellite imagery and targeting data used to strike Russian positions during the three-year war. Now, it […]
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BELGRADE — The EU is boosting the size of its peacekeeping mission in Bosnia after recently convicted Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik banned state-level institutions in Serb regions, sparking separatist fears. The EU “will temporarily increase the size of its force,” the European Union Force Bosnia Herzegovina, or EUFOR, said in a statement late Friday. […]
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On the eve of International Women’s Day, Italy’s national government late Friday approved a draft law that introduces femicide into the country’s law following an uproar over violence against women by their former or current partners. Those convicted would face life in prison under the proposed legislation. The draft law “provides for aggravating circumstances and […]
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The foreign ministers from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom released a joint statement Saturday putting their support behind an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. “The plan shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises — if implemented — swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living […]
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