The bloc’s budget is too small, and without extra funding poorer regions and farmers will pay the price, the social committee chief has warned EU member states will need to take on more joint debt to fund expanding military spending, Seamus Boland, president of the European Economic and Social Committee…
Ukrainian officials demand the release of “war criminals” in exchange for people abducted in Kursk Region, Rodion Miroshnik has said Kiev continues to hold 12 Russian civilians abducted during the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Region, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said on Friday. The hostage situation has remained unchanged for months,…
The dollar’s reserve status yields leverage – at hidden cost. An economic reckoning reveals the trade-offs embedded in monetary dominance. In some corners of the political imagination, the dollar has become a grand theory of everything – not a currency, but a convenient, catch-all, virtually cosmic culprit. Every sanction, every…
The US president’s remarks come amid a rift between Washington and Ottawa over trade and geopolitics US President Donald Trump has threatened to “decertify” aircraft made in Canada and hit Canadian plane sales with a 50% tariff amid rising tensions with Ottawa. Trump made the comments in a post on…
The Ukrainian leader’s increasingly belligerent complaints have been getting more pushback from key European backers Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has blamed Western backers for critical military shortages, stating that air defense systems lacked missiles during recent Russian strikes. His latest grievance follows a series of heated exchanges with European leaders, who…
The US president previously said he had secured a week-long moratorium on attacks against the Ukrainian power grid amid a cold snap Russia has agreed to partially suspend long-range strikes on Ukrainian targets at the request of US President Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Trump previously said…
An armed suspect was apprehended as he carried out reconnaissance near the target’s home, the agency has said Russian law enforcement agents have detained a gunman who was planning to assassinate a high-ranking military officer in St. Petersburg at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has…
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claims that Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” prevails over the will of the people UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the principle of self-determination does not apply to the people of Crimea and Donbass, drawing sharp condemnation from Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier this week accused the UN…
Western governments are deliberately downplaying the fact that the Auschwitz death camp was liberated by Soviet troops, Moscow has said Western governments are seeking to erase the memory of the role the USSR played in defeating Nazism and ending the Holocaust, the Russian Embassy in Berlin has said, commenting on…