The Polish government on Wednesday faced pressure from EU officials to come clean on how it used spyware for political purposes. A delegation of members of the European Parliament met with officials of the Polish parliament — the Sejm — and other institutions this week. But the delegation got stonewalled by the government, who declined […]
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NEW YORK — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says his country is open to the previously unthinkable step of imposing price caps on gas to rein in Europe’s energy crisis. As political leaders, activists and philanthropists piled on the pressure Wednesday to act to limit climate change at U.N. General Assembly events, Støre told POLITICO […]
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German police raided several properties, including a lakeside villa, belonging to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, as part of investigations into suspected violation of sanctions, tax evasion and money laundering. A special unit of about 250 officers searched the oligarch’s estate in Bavaria, Germany’s Der Spiegel reported. The prosecutor general’s office in Frankfurt said in a […]
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NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against former U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his business empire, accusing them of large-scale fraudulent financial practices and seeking to bar them from real estate transactions for the next five years. The attorney general’s civil suit alleges decades […]
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Warning that Russia’s imperial ambitions threaten the globe, President Joe Biden stood at the United Nations and denounced Moscow’s efforts to “erase” Ukraine from the map just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an intent to dramatically escalate Europe’s largest war in generations. Biden addressed a sea of world leaders on Wednesday but blamed […]
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The EU has lifted some restrictions on the trade and financing of Russian coal and chemical to avoid an energy and food security crisis in poorer countries, but the upcoming ban on oil may have an even deeper impact.
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From 2050 onwards, the EU should remove more greenhouse gases than it emits — a great challenge. Are the member states ready for this challenge? The answer is no.
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One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast on Wednesday after president Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, Reuters reported. Putin’s announcement raised fears that some men of fighting age would not be allowed to leave Russia. Direct flights from Moscow to Turkey’s Istanbul and Armenia’s Yerevan, which both allow Russians […]
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Finland said on Wednesday that it is monitoring the situation in neighbouring Russia, after president Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s first military mobilisation since World War Two, Reuters reported. “Regarding Finland’s surroundings, I can say that the military situation is stable and calm,” said Finnish defence minister Antti Kaikkonen, pointing out that “defence forces are […]
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Lithuania on Wednesday increased alert levels of its army “to prevent any provocations from Russia,” the country’s defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas wrote on Facebook, after Moscow announced on the same day a partial military mobilisation for the war in Ukraine. “As Russia’s military mobilisation will also be carried out in the Kaliningrad region, our neighbourhood, […]
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