Category: Politico News

German police raided several properties, including a lakeside villa, belonging to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, as part of investigations into suspected violation of sanctions, tax evasion and money laundering. A special unit of about 250 officers searched the oligarch’s estate in Bavaria, Germany’s Der Spiegel reported. The prosecutor general’s office in Frankfurt said in a […]

NEW YORK — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says his country is open to the previously unthinkable step of imposing price caps on gas to rein in Europe’s energy crisis. As political leaders, activists and philanthropists piled on the pressure Wednesday to act to limit climate change at U.N. General Assembly events, Støre told POLITICO […]

The Polish government on Wednesday faced pressure from EU officials to come clean on how it used spyware for political purposes. A delegation of members of the European Parliament met with officials of the Polish parliament — the Sejm — and other institutions this week. But the delegation got stonewalled by the government, who declined […]

Warning that Russia’s imperial ambitions threaten the globe, President Joe Biden stood at the United Nations and denounced Moscow’s efforts to “erase” Ukraine from the map just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an intent to dramatically escalate Europe’s largest war in generations. Biden addressed a sea of world leaders on Wednesday but blamed […]

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against former U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his business empire, accusing them of large-scale fraudulent financial practices and seeking to bar them from real estate transactions for the next five years. The attorney general’s civil suit alleges decades […]

LONDON — The U.K. government will scrap proposed bans on the import of fur and foie gras — prompting outrage from Conservative animal welfare campaigners.  The plans were shelved earlier in 2022, leading to fears the promises would be ditched. But now the bans will not go ahead at all after Liz Truss became the […]

Russian authorities are investigating Soviet-era pop legend Alla Pugacheva for “discrediting” the army, after she spoke out against the war in Ukraine on social media, Russian state-run agency TASS reported on Tuesday. Moscow police claimed a local citizen flagged the Instagram post from Pugacheva, asking them to investigate whether the celebrity was engaged in foreign-funded […]

Russia on Wednesday announced an immediate partial mobilization of its reservists, as it faces a surging Ukrainian counteroffensive on multiple fronts of its war against Ukraine. The text of the decree announcing the move is vague and open-ended. It doesn’t specify the number of forces to be called up, nor an end date for their […]

The U.K. government will cap energy costs for businesses at “less than half” the anticipated wholesale price in its latest major intervention to shield the economy from the impact of the energy crisis. Businesses, charities and public sector organizations will automatically qualify for a new legally mandated “Supported Wholesale Price,” which the department for business, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced an immediate partial mobilization and threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine. In a pre-recorded address broadcast on state TV, Putin said he was calling up reservists to aid in Russia’s war against Ukraine, but would not implement a general conscription drive for now. He […]