Category: Politico News

Published on Cagle.com, Bulgaria, August 10, 2022 | By Christo Komarnitski First published in De Volkskrant, the Netherlands, August 10, 2022 | By Jos Collignon Published on CagleCartoons.com, U.S., August 9, 2022 | By Jeff Koterba First published in Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper, London, August 8, 2022 | By J Emad Hajjaj First published in U.T. […]

Margaux Demoulin, a 26-year-old veterinarian, is fed up. She’s been in the job for only two years — after training for six — and she’s already been thinking of quitting. Her dream job is turning into a nightmare. With overbearing pet owners, death threats on social media, work overload and little pay, Belgium’s vets say […]

WASHINGTON — A search warrant viewed by POLITICO reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for a potential violation of the Espionage Act and removed classified documents from the former president’s Florida estate earlier this week. A receipt accompanying the search warrant, viewed by POLITICO on Friday, shows that Trump possessed documents including a […]

Germany on Friday suspended its military mission to Mali “until further notice,” as terrorists and Russian mercenaries continue to destabilize the embattled African country. Berlin’s decision to freeze troop deployments out of a United Nations mission came as relations deteriorated between Germany and Mali’s military junta, which has become increasingly belligerent toward the West. Germany […]

BERLIN — Europe’s proposal to resuscitate Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers would blunt American sanctions against Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and pave the way for Tehran to avoid further scrutiny of suspected atomic sites, according to excerpts of a draft of the text reviewed by POLITICO. The details of the draft were finalized in Vienna […]

LONDON — Novelist Salman Rushdie has been violently attacked while delivering a lecture in New York. Police said Rushdie was airlifted to hospital after suffering “an apparent stab wound to the neck” Friday morning. His condition remains unknown. The Booker Prize winner, who has been subject to death threats since the late 1980s from Iran […]

The U.K. government’s environmental agency officially declared a drought on Friday in eight out of 14 areas across England. In practice, moving to drought status means that the Environment Agency and water companies will start implementing their pre-agreed drought plans, and face fewer barriers to ban people from using hosepipes and washing their car with […]

WARSAW — Thousands of dead fish have been found along the Oder River running between Poland and Germany, with officials on both sides of the border warning of an ecological catastrophe. It’s turning into a political problem for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, as the opposition accuses it of ignoring early signals of […]

The U.K. has no plans to buy doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 antibody therapy Evusheld that is designed to protect vulnerable people, arguing that the data for the drug is insufficient. “Following a robust review of the available data, our clinical experts advise there is currently insufficient data on the duration of protection offered by Evusheld […]

The Russian central bank forecasted that the country’s economy will shrink by between 4 percent and 6 percent this year and by between 1 percent and 4 percent in 2023, before returning to positive growth in 2024. The Finance Ministry last month said the economy shrank by 4 percent in the second quarter, after growing […]