The powers of currently serving officials have been extended until after martial law is lifted Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to delay all local elections and extend the powers of regional councils and officials until martial law is lifted in the country. Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly delayed presidential and parliamentary elections….
The Portuguese star’s wealth rose sharply after he signed a new $400 million deal in Saudi Arabia, the agency has said Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first footballer to join the ranks of billionaires, according to Bloomberg’s calculations. The agency reported on Wednesday that the 40-year-old athlete has…
Foreign interests must not shape Poland’s future, Slawomir Mentzen has warned Poland must prevent Ukrainian migrants from gaining political sway in the country, MP Slawomir Mentzen has warned, after Ukrainian media discussed the prospect of the diaspora achieving representation in the Polish parliament. ”They feel entitled to tell Poles how…
The motion to suggest the US president for the award failed to gather enough support among lawmakers, according to reports The Ukrainian parliament has failed to pass a motion to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, local outlet Strana.ua has reported. Trump has repeatedly claimed he…
Javier Milei has led Argentine to ruin by utterly subjugating it to the US Argentina is on the brink of bankruptcy. Because that’s the name for where you are when you desperately need a promise of a bailout to buy time, while you may still need the full bailout later,…
Vienna is seeking a sanctions waiver to unfreeze Oleg Deripaska-linked shares to compensate Raiffeisen Bank for losses in Russia Austria’s bid to unfreeze €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in assets linked to sanctioned Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska has triggered a rift in the EU, according to a draft proposal seen by…
Prime Minister Bart De Wever has insisted any liability for the proposed Ukraine “reparations loan” be shared among bloc members Patience among EU members is “running thin” over Belgium’s refusal to approve a bloc-backed plan to use frozen Russian assets as collateral for a multibillion-euro loan to finance Ukraine’s war…
People fear wearing Jewish symbols and are forced to order pizza under fake names, the anti-Semitism commissioner has said The living conditions of the Jewish population in Germany have sharply deteriorated over the two years of the Gaza conflict, the German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, said on Tuesday The…
The accounting giant has agreed to partially refund Australia’s Labor Department for “hallucinations” in its product The Australian arm of UK ‘big four’ accounting firm Deloitte has agreed to partially refund the cost of a report it produced for the government in Canberra after the document was found to contain…
Lai Ching-te is “propagating separatist fallacies” while selling out to foreign powers, officials have said Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te is selling himself out to foreign powers to advance separatism in the self-ruled island, officials in Beijing have said. In an interview with the conservative US radio program ‘The Clay Travis…