How Europeans saw climate change in July The effects of global warming as witnessed by POLITICO readers. By Zia Weise and Karl Mathiesen Photo by Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images July was a month of heat across much of Europe and our readers felt it. From Spain to Albania, people were wiping the sweat from […]
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An Irish immigrant to the U.S., he was a recording artist, scholar and concert presenter who also encouraged women to join a male-dominated folk tradition.
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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev called a snap election to be held on October 2 — the country’s fourth parliamentary vote within two years — after the collapse of the government under Kiril Petkov in June. Radev also on Monday appointed Galab Donev, a former labor minister, to lead a caretaker government until a new administration […]
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Defeated Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt threw her weight behind Liz Truss, in a fresh boost for the current frontrunner in the race to replace Boris Johnson. Speaking from the podium ahead of a Conservative leadership hustings, Mordaunt said she was backing Truss due to her “graft, her authenticity, her determination, her ambition for this […]
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Guterres, speaking at the start of a conference in New York of countries belonging to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, said this was a “time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War,” pointing […]
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Despite a shortage of healthcare professionals to administer shots, a monkeypox vaccination campaign is gaining momentum in the Paris region, which has been the epicentre of France’s outbreak. France has the fifth-highest number of monkeypox cases worldwide – nearly 2,000, the national health authorities said on Friday.
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Conflicts in Ukraine, Asia and the Middle East have lifted the threat of nuclear disaster to a level not seen since the Cold War, according to António Guterres.
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Moscow has banned 39 British politicians, business people and journalists from entering Russian territory, in response to the U.K.’s support of Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Monday. The list includes Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, former Prime Minister David Cameron, and journalists Piers Morgan and Robert Peston. The names were added to a list […]
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call Monday that France will support criminal investigations over the bombing last week of a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war. “A few days after a new massacre perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in Olenivka, and while war crimes […]
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But how many more will follow?
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