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EU to boycott Hungary’s foreign affairs summit

Increasingly exasperated by Viktor Orbán’s obstruction of EU foreign policy, Brussels is contemplating an unprecedented step to boycott Hungary’s foreign affairs summit next month.

July 15, 2024 12:51 am CET

EU’s biggest losers hold Ursula von der Leyen’s fate in their hands

Commission president could be forced to rely on Greens and liberals to secure a second term, weeks after they were rejected by voters in the European election.

July 14, 2024 10:15 pm CET

Poland mulls shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine

Warsaw is considering intervening after strikes have devastated the power grid and destroyed Kyiv’s largest children’s hospital.

July 13, 2024 10:48 am CET
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July 13, 2024 4:00 am CET

Ukraine’s former top general starts new gig as UK envoy

General Valeriy Zaluzhny is a household name in Ukraine.

July 12, 2024 5:25 pm CET

Russian army had 70,000 casualties in past 2 months, UK reports

The increase is connected to Russia opening its new front in the Kharkiv region while maintaining the same pressure rate over the entire 1,000-kilometer front line in the east and south of Ukraine, the ministry said.

July 12, 2024 5:08 pm CET

The never-ending job of depriving Putin of the means to kill Ukrainians

Vietnam and Malaysia are the next destinations on EU envoy David O’Sullivan’s mission to stop Russia from beating EU sanctions.

July 12, 2024 3:11 pm CET

Here’s President Putin! The 5 weirdest political mix-ups ever.

Don’t worry, Joe, you’re not the only one.

July 12, 2024 2:13 pm CET

Trump’s ‘going to solve’ Russia-Ukraine war, says Orbán

Peaceniks unite at Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida.

July 12, 2024 10:28 am CET

Biden at his press conference: See, I’m up to the job

The president tried to calm his party as calls to step aside intensified.

July 12, 2024 5:01 am CET

Scholz joins shaky chorus of world leaders sticking with Biden

Heads of state have been peppered with questions at this week’s NATO summit in Washington about Biden’s age and mental acuity.

July 12, 2024 4:43 am CET
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Habsburg empire strikes back

Viktor Orbán’s new hard-right group, Patriots for Europe, is a Habsburg coalition that gives the Hungarian leader the European platform he craves.

July 12, 2024 4:00 am CET

Stoltenberg bashes China for creeping closer to NATO

The Chinese-Belarusian anti-terrorism exercises, conducted not far from the border with NATO ally Poland, coincide with the NATO summit.

July 12, 2024 1:36 am CET

Biden introduced Zelenskyy. It didn’t go well: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin’

With the world watching his every word, Biden needed to avoid any gaffes at the NATO summit. He wasn’t able to.

July 12, 2024 1:05 am CET

Weakened Macron keeps low profile at NATO summit

The political crisis in Paris is creating a void other European capitals are keen to fill.

July 12, 2024 12:34 am CET

Ukraine wins big, NATO wins smaller — and everyone was sweaty

Over the course of three days, the 32-member military alliance rallied around Ukraine’s war efforts to combat the Russian invasion.

July 11, 2024 11:46 pm CET

2 percent on defense? That is so last year.

One of the NATO Summit’s biggest guessing games this week: What should members spend on defense?

July 11, 2024 11:31 pm CET

NATO allies try to get inside Trump’s head while in Washington

Trump confidants are telling NATO allies there’s nothing to worry about, but that messaging isn’t comforting concerns.

July 11, 2024 9:30 pm CET

Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany

Rheinmetall is Germany’s largest manufacturer of 155mm artillery shells, a crucial resource for Ukrainians defending themselves against Russia’s war.

July 11, 2024 7:06 pm CET

Russian region offers finder’s fee to residents who convince friends and family to fight in Ukraine

Tatarstan is offering people over $1,000 if they can talk their nearest and dearest into taking up arms for Moscow.

July 11, 2024 6:17 pm CET

NATO’s bad boys: Turkey and Hungary play their own game

Turkey and Hungary are preparing for a Trump presidency and charting their own course in the alliance.

July 11, 2024 6:13 pm CET

Ukraine seizes cargo ship, alleging grain shipments via Crimea

The vessel under flag of Cameroon is suspected of visiting Sevastopol in November 2023 and May of this year.

July 11, 2024 5:43 pm CET

Kyiv’s NATO membership would ‘guarantee WW3,’ Slovak PM says

Moscow-friendly PM Fico issues dire warning after Western alliance says Ukraine’s membership trajectory is “irreversible.”

July 11, 2024 5:36 pm CET
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