NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, setting up a potentially heated dialogue after Trump’s frequent attacks on NATO allies’ lukewarm support for the war in Iran. Rutte will travel to Washington to meet with Trump on Wednesday, Rutte’s office announced in a social media post. He’ll also […]
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Continue ReadingThe U.S. military is scrambling to find the pilots of an F-15 fighter jet downed over Iran on Friday, in a possible blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to quickly wrap up the weekslong conflict. A U.S. official confirmed Iranian state media reports about the incident and said efforts were underway to secure their rescue. The whereabouts […]
Continue ReadingDespite the war in Iran and its economic consequences preoccupying London and Brussels, much work is going on behind the scenes to strike a closer relationship between the U.K. and the European Union. Nearly a decade after Britain voted to leave the bloc, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has tasked his ministers with negotiating a post-Brexit […]
Continue ReadingThe reactions to the political deadlock have been furious: European home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner said it was “hard to understand,” and child rights group the Internet Watch Foundation called it an “abject political failure.” Despite the lack of a legal fix, tech firms could very well continue to scan for child sexual abuse. Google, […]
Continue ReadingShe was again questioned by the police on Friday morning as part of an investigation into a social media post she wrote last week expressing solidarity with Japanese terrorist Kōzō Okamoto. Okamoto was convicted of a terrorist attack that killed 26 people at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972. In her post on Friday, Hassan, […]
Continue ReadingEuropean lawmaker Bernd Lange, responsible for the European Parliament’s negotiations on the EU-U.S. trade deal, told POLITICO he believed the Trump administration’s announcement made a final deal more likely. Lange noted that the U.S. administration had scrapped 50 percent tariffs on many steel derived items, bringing some, like motorcycles, to the agreed 15 percent levels. […]
Continue ReadingThe museum insisted no passwords or security maps were stolen and that the systems involved were closed-circuit and not accessible from outside, with “no information lost.” The transfer of items to the vaults, including Medici-era treasures, was unrelated to the cyberattack but due to ongoing renovations. The episode quickly turned political. Former Prime Minister and […]
Continue ReadingSwedish authorities suspect the vessel may be part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, a covert network of mostly aging oil tankers used to circumvent sanctions imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In a post on X, Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the “older, inadequately insured tankers that circumvent sanctions pose a significant security and environmental […]
Continue ReadingThe desire to join NATO has not blinded Ukraine to the substantial cracks within the alliance. The ambassador admitted that the country’s faith had been shaken, in part because of NATO’s “behavior in the first years of the war, when it deliberately tried to distance itself from all key processes related to providing Ukraine with […]
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