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The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday “strongly” condemned the U.S.’s announcement that it will widen the scope of its 2020 decision to lift its arms embargo on Cyprus. The move is “in contradiction to the principle of equality of the two sides on the island,” the ministry said in a statement. The development will “further […]

Pedro Serrano de Haro, chief of staff to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, has been appointed the bloc’s new ambassador to the U.K. Serrano de Haro, a Spaniard, will succeed João Vale de Almeida, who is leaving the post at the end of the year. Prior to being Borrell’s chief of staff, Serrano de […]

After a mass burial site was found in the recently re-taken city of Izyum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there is “clear evidence” of war crimes by Russian soldiers and urged the world to “react” to Moscow’s atrocities. Almost 450 bodies of civilians were discovered in Izyum, in the northeastern Kharkiv region, apparently victims of […]

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hit yet another diplomatic setback at the hands of a supposed friend Friday, when India’s leader openly criticized his war on Ukraine as harking from another age. “I know that today’s era is not the era for war,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Putin at a meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. […]

PARIS — France’s TV broadcasters TF1 and M6 have decided to give up their controversial merger plans, they announced Friday. “Following the discussions with the [national competition authority] and despite the additional remedies proposed, it appears that only structural remedies concerning at least the divestiture of the TF1 channel or the M6 channel would allow the […]

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.”  Russian President Vladimir Putin had high hopes for the invasion of his western neighbor earlier this year — he was going to bring all of Ukraine back into […]

LONDON — They come to the U.K. in their thousands — Ukrainians from every walk of life, in urgent need of military training to protect their homeland. From lawyers to bricklayers, they are flown in from across Ukraine. The aim is to turn the new recruits into soldiers in just five weeks, providing basic military […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast Behind the scenes, the late Queen Elizabeth II was the ultimate Westminster Insider.  Host Ailbhe Rea and POLITICO’s Annabelle Dickson uncover how the Queen received a daily dose of gossip from deep inside the heart of government, and speaks to two of […]

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. In disappointing news, Ursula von der Leyen did not begin her State of the European Union address with a heartfelt eulogy to her pet pony, Dolly, which was killed by a wolf earlier this month. Instead she went with Ukraine as her opening gambit. Well, each to their […]