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Poland has attributed a massive cyberattack on the country’s power grid to Russia, warning that the Kremlin attempted to cause a blackout. Warsaw quietly warded off a major assault on the Polish electricity system over the Christmas break, a senior government figure said, drawing comparisions with a similar attack on a Finnish-Estonian power cable one […]

MADRID – Spain will ask the EU to lift sanctions on Venezuela if the country’s interim leadership continues to take steps towards a democratic transition, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Wednesday. Speaking to El País, almost two weeks after a US military operation in Caracas led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás […]

Greenland’s leader has rejected US talk of annexation and paused the Arctic territory’s push for separation from Copenhagen, ahead of a crucial meeting with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. After days of growing frustration in Nuuk amid strained relations with Denmark, a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in Copenhagen […]

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On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Russia has summoned Poland’s ambassador to formally protest the detention of a Russian archaeologist, demanding his immediate release rather than extradition to Ukraine. Alexander Butyagin was arrested by Polish […]

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children. Starmer is in talks with Australia and Canada, who […]