Category: Politico News

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó took the stage to claim that Brussels, Kyiv and Berlin “want to bring Europe to war” and “want the money of Europeans to be given to the Ukrainians.” Near Kossuth Square, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Boulevard was at a standstill with dozens of buses still disgorging supporters from the countryside, who had been brought […]

Budapest has accused Kyiv of deliberately blocking progress on repairing the infrastructure in order to engineer an energy crisis in the Hungary. In response, Hungarian Prime Viktor Orbán has been blocking the release of a €90 billion tranche of EU funding for Ukraine needed to keep the war-torn country financially afloat. On Thursday, the European […]

U.S. President Donald Trump did not commit to a definitive timeline for the war in Iran, saying in a Friday interview that the fighting would end when he feels it “in my bones.” Trump told Fox News Radio that he didn’t think the war “would be long.” But he suggested that only he will know […]

Richard Grenell is stepping down from his role as the interim head of the Kennedy Center before the iconic venue closes down for major renovations, President Donald Trump said Friday. Grenell, a former ambassador who also serves as Trump’s envoy for special missions, will be replaced at the Kenney Center by Matt Floca, vice president […]

The EU’s sanctions list must be renewed twice a year with unanimous support from all 27 member states. More than 2,600 people and entities have been sanctioned. The names that were removed were not disclosed. Slovakia had called for the removal of prominent tycoons Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list. However, two of […]

The World Anti-Doping Agency is weighing a rule change because the U.S. has refused to pay its dues to the agency since 2023, the Associated Press reported. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Lebanon was ready to “engage in direct talks” with Israel, offering to host the two sides in Paris for negotiations. “The Lebanese government has signaled its willingness to engage in direct talks with Israel,” the French leader said on social media platform X, adding that he had spoken to Lebanon’s […]

Agence France-Presse reported the damage had been caused by a drone strike, not a missile. Several videos, circulated by the AP and the BBC, show pillars of smoke rising from inside the facility. Saturday’s strike in Baghdad came after a drone attack in northern Iraq on Thursday killed a French soldier and wounded several others […]

He later told the New York Times that Kyiv had deployed interceptor drones and a team of drone specialists to help protect U.S. military bases in Jordan. POLITICO reported last week that Ukrainian officials were in talks with Persian Gulf countries and the U.S. to offer their anti-drone expertise and drone tech against Iranian attacks, […]