William Nattrass is a freelance journalist and commentator based in Prague. It was never going to last. Though Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought about a brief détente in Poland’s rule-of-law dispute with the European Commission, relations are now, unsurprisingly, hitting a new low. Fury is building in Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party […]
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KYIV — Blasts that rocked a Russian military airfield in forcibly annexed Crimea signal the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south and a critical new phase of the war that could shape its ultimate outcome, two Ukrainian officials told POLITICO. The series of explosions Tuesday sent huge fireballs and mushroom clouds of black smoke […]
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Europeans have been saved from a summer shutdown of social media sites Facebook and Instagram by … European Union bureaucracy. An Irish draft decision to block the social media sites’ parent company Meta’s data transfers from Europe to the U.S. is stuck in the process, as regulators from across the EU butt heads over the […]
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LONDON — The U.K. is offering all children aged 1 to 9 a booster dose of the polio vaccine after further poliovirus has been found in sewage in the capital. The committee advising the British government on vaccination has recommended that a booster dose be offered to children of those ages in all London boroughs. […]
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On Saturday, August 6, I proudly stood with Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, and the people of Hiroshima in memory of an unprecedented catastrophe. Seventy-seven years ago, nuclear weapons were dropped on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tens of thousands of women, children and men were killed in the blink of an eye, incinerated […]
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An air and sea rescue operation was underway Wednesday after around 50 people went missing when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said.
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The children’s author used comic-strip-like panels to explore the joys and struggles of workaday British life. With irreverent wit, he also interrogated Father Christmas and nuclear war.
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Moscow struggling to recruit enough soldiers, says British Ministry of Defence
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Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia
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Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tested positive for coronavirus, she announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “The morning started positively, unfortunately, corona-positively,” she quipped. Kallas said she has minor symptoms: She lost her voice on Monday, attributing that to a minor cold, because her rapid COVID tests were negative at first. She tested […]
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