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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 […]

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday night hammered tech billionaire Elon Musk over controversial remarks he made about Germans needing to get over their “past guilt” for horrific crimes carried out by the Nazis. “I’m so angry about Elon Musk intervening for the far right and Elon Musk also not acting adequate to […]

Greenlanders have a message for Donald Trump: We’re not interested. 85 percent of the local population are against the idea of becoming part of the United States, according to new polling conducted by research company Verian, for national newspaper Sermitsiaq in Greenland and media outlet Berlingske in Denmark. The poll was based on web interviews […]

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas finally got U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the phone Tuesday after POLITICO reported Rubio skipped a meeting with foreign ministers, leading to fears Brussels was being frozen out. Posting on X, Kallas said that the pair “discussed global issues where the EU and US have the […]

President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Feb. 4, the prime minister’s office announced on Tuesday. Netanyahu is set to be the first foreign leader to meet in person with Trump at the White House since he was inaugurated last week. Trump previewed the visit on Monday […]

It’s no longer a joke.  After initially provoking disbelief, U.S President Donald Trump’s audacious plan to acquire Greenland — potentially by force — has triggered frantic talks among European leaders aiming to stop him.  Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dashed between Berlin, Brussels and Paris on Tuesday to shore up support in the face of […]

Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 snap election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.” The Tesla CEO addressed the crowd alongside party leader Alice Weidel, saying that […]

Spanish police have arrested a man in connection with the 2023 shooting of two football fans in Brussels. Spanish police and Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday that the suspect was arrested at Malaga Airport the day before. Two Swedish nationals were killed and another injured in the attack, which took place after a qualifying game […]

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 […]

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. […]