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THE TIME TRAVELLER 1. Friedrich Merz. Friedrich Merz wishes he owned a time machine. The head of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union doesn’t much care for what his longtime rival, Angela Merkel, did during her time as chancellor.Merz believes his predecessor as party leader committed major blunders when she phased out the country’s nuclear power plants following the 2011 ...
World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says
Nov 21, 2024 · World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army has a grim outlook on the state of the war.
Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn’t it fighting back?
Nov 25, 2024 · “We have been observing aggressive actions by the Russian intelligence services for some time now,” said Thomas Haldenwang, who recently stepped down as president of Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency.
Elon Musk to British MPs: I’ll summon you, actually - POLITICO
Nov 21, 2024 · LONDON — Elon Musk is beefing with British politicians again — and they’re not impressed. The X owner and Donald Trump ally brushed off a call from the House of Commons’ science and technology committee to answer questions on his …
Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, poll finds
Aug 13, 2024 · Keir Starmer has stressed that Labour will not seek to rejoin the EU itself or its single market or customs union under his premiership. The 61-year-old PM has said rejoining will not happen within his lifetime.. YouGov found that a majority of voters (51 percent) believe Labour’s landslide election victory does not give Starmer a mandate to rejoin the EU — compared to a fifth (21 percent ...
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Paul Murphy, who played a key role in the 1998 peace breakthrough, will recommend possible changes to how Northern Ireland enforces EU goods law—and, to unionist dismay, polices goods coming from Britain.
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Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected
Jun 16, 2024 · “I will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect,” said Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S. election.. Ukraine’s Western allies have been working to secure long-term assistance for Kyiv amid fears that Trump’s potential reelection could curtail U.S. support. The Biden administration last week extended long-term security guarantees to Ukraine.
Putin’s Estonia provocation rings alarm bells in the Baltics
May 24, 2024 · Russia can’t resist testing the Baltic waters. Just a day after the the Kremlin's defense ministry deleted a threat to redraw borders in the Baltic Sea earlier this week, Russian border guards removed more than 20 buoys on the Narva River — a waterway along the Estonian-Russian border. EU leaders condemned the move as an act of provocative behavior by Russia with its neighbors.
UK’s Keir Starmer suffers historic drop in approval ratings
Oct 29, 2024 · LONDON — Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest post-election fall in approval ratings of any British prime minister in the modern era. Just months after coming to office, the U.K. Labour leader is already languishing on an approval rating of -38, new polling of 1,012 adults by More in Common found.. It marks a precipitous 49-point drop from the +11 rating Starmer logged just after Labour won ...