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Dan Jukes, Farage’s long-term media chief, and James Orr, his senior policy adviser, have stepped down as Reform UK launches investigation. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech

In July this year, the Commission put the issue back on the political agenda. The recently adopted EU Livestock Strategy sets out a legislative proposal that includes a ban on cages and on culling male chicks. We welcome this step. However, experience in recent years has shown that announcements by the Commission do not always […]

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Billboards and election posters featuring election campaign ads for various parties are pictured in Magdeburg. | Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images But the chancellor comes into the election in Saxony-Anhalt — and two more elections on Sept. 20 — in a precarious position. Already the least popular chancellor on record after 16 months in office, […]

Berlusconi’s extraordinary endurance rested on his ability to survive electoral defeats, collapsed governments, criminal trials and repeated predictions of his political death. His wealth, television empire and a party constructed around himself gave him resources independent of his popularity at any particular moment. Meloni lacks those tycoon-style advantages, but she is still only 49 years […]

Social media has played a crucial role in the protest, allowing citizens and journalists to report in real time from their own accounts, mobilize protesters, and document scuffles with police. But in the last few weeks, they have found themselves hit with copyright infringement notices, content takedowns, and account suspensions and closures. Those affected insist […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said the federal government will ask Europe to pay it back for munitions given to Ukraine under former President Joe Biden, as the White House grapples with dwindling stocks of munitions with its war in Iran now stretching into its seventh month. “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free […]

The deepening crisis at Germany’s largest company comes at a terrible time for Merz, who promised to reform the economy and revitalize the country’s industrial base when he took power in 2025.  Instead, automotive suppliers, chemical companies and other manufacturing firms are bleeding jobs, energy prices are high and the country is facing a growing […]

PARIS — Four U.S. space companies have decided not to participate in next week’s international space summit in Paris after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pressured firms to ditch the event. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, rocket maker Stoke Space and Starcloud, a startup that is trying to launch data centers in space, […]

The bloc’s ambassadors could not find common ground on the proposal on Wednesday, with Slovakia being the sole holdout. “Apparently, they have some objections. I think we have heard them before,” one EU diplomat said. They were granted anonymity to comment freely on the closed-door negotiations. A spokesperson for the Slovak government declined to comment […]