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A Russian drone attack on Friday afternoon struck the central Kyiv headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the state’s top counterintelligence agency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack “directly” targeted the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the acting head of the SBU, Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko separately said that […]

Three schemes account for the bulk of the government’s spending under the new plan. France will speed up payments under its “national solidarity” scheme designed to compensate for crop losses. It will be topped up to a total of €520 million, provided the country’s 2027 budget is duly adopted. An “agricultural recovery fund” of €235 […]

In a ruling from Washington’s own attempt to break up Google, Judge Leonie Brinkema, of the Federal District of Eastern Virginia, rejected the DoJ’s request for a forced divestiture of parts of its business. That decision leaves the EU alone, at a time of transatlantic discord, in advocating that the online advertising giant break itself […]

“But unlike the real India Gate, which has stood almost for a century, the chocolate version didn’t even survive the journey to India,” De Wever said. “Chocolate is excellent for diplomacy, but not excellent for diplomatic travel.” The gift carried a more serious message. India Gate is a war memorial in New Delhi, and De […]

“The glorification of war criminals has no place; it goes really, really strong against European values and has no space, not in the EU member states, but also in our candidates,” she said. “We are observing the situation very carefully … and we will see what will happen in [the] next days and we also […]

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 […]