Category: Politico News

Another head has rolled on the French left. Julien Bayou is no longer co-president of the green group in France’s National Assembly or national secretary of the Green party, where he’s been an important figure since 2013, after being accused of psychological abuse against his former partner. The Green party — Europe Écologie les Verts […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden in a presidential decree published Monday. Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013, after the United States charged the former intelligence analyst contractor under the 1917 Espionage Act for leaking highly classified documents about government surveillance programs. He was granted permanent residency in […]

Europe’s right wing is cheering Giorgia Meloni’s projected win in Italy’s election. Everyone else is looking anxiously at what happens next. Meloni is set to lead Italy’s most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini after the coalition led by her Brothers of Italy party won around 44 percent of the vote on Sunday. On Monday morning, […]

Seven German citizens are taking their government to court over air pollution, NGOs ClientEarth and Deutsche Umwelthilfe announced Monday. By leaving national air pollution laws unchanged, Berlin failed to respond to new guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO), which last year tightened its air quality guidelines, the claimants argue. “This leaves people breathing in […]

The pound fell to a record low against the U.S. dollar early Monday, fueling speculation that the Bank of England might raise interest rates to prop up the currency. The sterling fell almost 5 percent to drop below the 1985 trough at $1.0327, before recovering to $1.0605. It was still down around 1.5 percent around midday on […]

A gunman shot the leader of a local military committee in a Siberian town on Monday, local authorities reported, in an apparent protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization order. In a graphic video posted on social media, one shot is heard and a man falls to the ground, while the gunman is also seen […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tested positive for COVID-19. A government spokesman announced that Scholz has mild cold symptoms and is isolating in the chancellor’s apartment in the Federal Chancellery. “This week’s public appointments will be canceled. The chancellor wants to attend internal appointments and the scheduled meeting with the prime ministers of the federal […]

It was a little over a week ago that Iranian drones first began appearing in the skies over Ukraine. Andriana Arekhta, a junior sergeant with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the drones flew from Crimea to attack her special forces unit fighting near the southern city of Kherson. The drones evaded the soldiers’ defenses and […]

The European Central Bank expects the euro area economy to contract in the last quarter of this year and in the first quarter next year, its president said Monday. That fits the definition of a technical recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. “It is difficult to predict what the real outcome will […]

After years of denying any connection, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that he was directly involved in creating the Wagner Group, a network of mercenaries and a de facto private army of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. In a statement, Prigozhin confirmed the reporting of an investigation by the Russian independent online portal “Bloknot.” The entrepreneur, […]