Police are investigating after the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, godfather of the French far right, was vandalized during the night between Thursday and Friday. A police source told French newspaper Le Figaro on Friday that the cross on the Le Pen family tomb, located in the cemetery in La Trinité-sur-Mer in northwestern France, had […]
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Orbán’s new threat: I’ll end Russia sanctions unless Ukraine pumps Putin’s gas
Hungary again delayed the renewal of the EU’s Russia sanctions on Friday, injecting a last-minute demand for Ukraine to reopen its pipelines and allow Russian gas to flow across the continent. “Now the issue of extending sanctions is on the agenda, I have put on the handbrake and asked European leaders to understand that this […]
Read MoreGermany’s far-right firewall weakens as Merz pledges migration crackdown
BERLIN — German conservatives’ determination not to play ball with the far right is ebbing away. Friedrich Merz, favorite to be chancellor after next month’s election, signaled he’d try to push tougher migration measures through parliament even if passage depends on the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — a taboo-busting move […]
Read MorePutin says he’s ready to meet Trump to ‘talk calmly’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he is open to meet with United States President Donald Trump to “talk calmly” about issues such as energy prices and the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. “It would be better for us to meet, based on the realities of today, to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest […]
Read MoreUS Treasury terminates sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank
The Treasury Department on Friday officially removed U.S. sanctions against dozens of Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as part of President Donald Trump’s major reversal of Biden-era policy in the region. The action carries out Trump’s Day One move to rescind former President Joe Biden’s February 2024 […]
Read MoreTrump vows to launch trade war on EU
A massive trade war looms after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday evening he will “absolutely” slap tariffs on goods from the EU. “Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? Do you want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely, absolutely,” he told reporters in the Oval […]
Read MoreUS State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on […]
Read MoreTrump administration takes first anti-abortion move on world stage
The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus, taking its first formal step to roll back Biden-era global health policies and previewing an expected strategy of seeking to curtail abortion access for millions of women and girls worldwide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed […]
Read MoreUkraine can bring Azeri gas to Europe, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine is ready to transit gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv he had discussed the arrangement with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev when the pair met in recent days. Azerbaijan “has a large export capacity. The export capacity is 25 billion cubic meters,” Zelenskyy said. […]
Read MoreTrump is everywhere again
Joe Biden promised Americans a four-year break from thinking about the presidency every day. That hiatus ended at 12:01 p.m. Monday, when Donald J. Trump took the oath of office. It was almost like he’d never left. The former reality TV star followed his inaugural address in the Capitol rotunda with an off-the-cuff speech to […]
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