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Donald Trump is gearing up to be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday in New Orleans, saying on social media that “IT WILL BE A GREAT GAME.” Trump, in a Friday morning post on his Truth Social, said he is eager to see the stars on both teams when the […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stood by earlier comments from the country’s president likening modern day Russia to Nazi Germany, adding the Kremlin had offended “the entire Italian nation” after a spokesperson blasted the comparison on Friday. President Sergio Mattarella drew a parallel between the “wars of aggression” that prompted World War II and the […]

Germany’s Federal Network Agency is “well prepared” to respond to online interference in the country’s Feb. 23 parliamentary election, the agency’s president Klaus Müller said following a stress test with social media platforms on Friday. “Today we realistically simulated possible infringements, tested the platforms’ reporting procedures and mechanisms and practised action and the relevant exchange of […]

President Donald Trump said Friday he would sign an executive order next week to undo a Biden-era plan to phase out plastic straws by 2027. “BACK TO PLASTIC!” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social. Paper straws, he continued, “don’t work.” Republicans and Democrats butted heads over straws last summer when the Biden […]

The war in Ukraine could turn into the European Union’s “Afghanistan,” a grinding and costly engagement with “no way out,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed Friday. Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a media event in Dubai, Orbán noted the hundreds of billions of euros in aid the EU has spent […]

Five parties agreed to form a new Belgian coalition government late Friday, concluding months of negotiations and paving the way for Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever to serve as the country’s next prime minister. “After seven long months, we finally have a government for the country,” said Conner Rousseau, the president of Vooruit, one of the […]

FLENSBURG, Germany — Friedrich Merz is Germany’s likely next chancellor, but how he will form a coalition government is looking increasingly uncertain. At a campaign event on Friday in the northern German city of Flensburg, Greens chancellor candidate Robert Habeck cast doubt on the possibility of a coalition between his party and Merz’s conservative alliance […]

German chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his call for the country to relax its strict spending rules, pushing for Germany’s constitutional debt brake to be reformed immediately after national elections later this month. “We need a reform of the debt brake in our constitution directly after the upcoming election,” Scholz told the Munich Security Conference on […]

Hamas freed three Israeli hostages on Saturday morning in a televised event in central Gaza in the latest exchange under the cease-fire agreement in the region. The Palestinian militant group freed Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who were captured in the Oct. 7. 2023, attack on Israel. The three men appeared on […]