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Climate activists are planning protests Sunday against FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Aramco at World Cup sites and fan zones across the country. Organizer Zan Dubin told POLITICO the protests are aimed at pressuring FIFA to drop Aramco while calling attention to the way oil company advertising becomes part of […]

Climate activists are planning protests Sunday against FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Aramco at World Cup sites and fan zones across the country. Organizer Zan Dubin told POLITICO the protests are aimed at pressuring FIFA to drop Aramco while calling attention to the way oil company advertising becomes part of […]

No date has been set for the politically sensitive trial, which adds to a series of scandals affecting Sánchez’s government. The charges come in a case stemming from a complaint by the ultra-Catholic association Hazte Oír and far-right groups including the political party Vox. Gómez, who denies any wrongdoing, is accused of exploiting her position […]

The Netherlands has had a week in Texas, between matches in Dallas and Houston, and one of the leading members of its government delegation has been using the time to conduct old-school diplomacy. In Houston, Mirjam Sterk — who has an expansive portfolio of a minister for long-term care, youth and sport — has visited […]

At a press conference after the G7 summit, Meloni said she considered her relationship with Trump “unchanged” despite the earlier spat. “We have a strong enough character, we are both [leaders who] defend the national interest with determination, there is no need for us to clarify when we disagree on something,” she added. In his […]

The fighting continued despite Israel and Hezbollah having agreed to a ceasefire on Friday in an effort to deescalate a conflict that, on the same day alone, killed at least 47 people in Lebanon and four Israeli soldiers. Renewed hostilities in Lebanon could also complicate the implementation of the agreement signed on Wednesday between the […]

Zelenskyy added that “Russia will keep pushing him further into this war,” but that the Belarusian president now “understands that Ukraine will respond.” Kyiv’s pressure on Minsk is not limited to the relay equipment that, according to Zelenskyy, “adjusts fire on our people.” Ukraine’s leader also criticized Lukashenko over his country’s oil-refining sector, arguing that […]

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But Szeptycki hasn’t been fired from the government and Tusk warned against comments that “embolden larger groups of people to feed xenophobia, contempt for people with different views, and contempt for people whose background does not fit the standards of pure Polishness.” Tusk, whose centrist Civic Platform party is locked in a political struggle with […]

“He never objected in any case to the Fidesz leadership or the Fidesz government. And now he objects, for the first time, to defend his seat,” Bálint Magyar, a former Hungarian cabinet minister, told POLITICO. Blind eye The president’s unpopularity may help explain why Magyar feels free to attack him in caustic terms. “How, after […]