Category: Politico News

Russian gas provider Gazprom on Saturday announced it was stopping deliveries to Latvia for an alleged breach of contract terms. “Today Gazprom stopped gas supplies to Latvia within the framework of the July order due to the violation of … conditions,” the company said in a Telegram post, without providing further details. Gazprom had already […]

U.S. Speaker of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to leave this weekend on a trip that includes Singapore, Japan and South Korea — and possibly Taiwan — even as a Chinese state media commentator suggested Friday that Beijing could shoot down any U.S. military plane she takes to Taipei. Pelosi has declined to confirm […]

European privacy regulators on Friday lambasted an EU draft law to fight child abuse online for posing “serious risks for fundamental rights.” In an assessment of a European Commission proposal to force tech companies to detect and report images of child sexual abuse, the network of national privacy watchdogs, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), and the […]

You see angry farmers. The far right sees opportunity. Europe’s right-wing populists have been quick to jump on what has until now been a mostly domestic issue in the Netherlands over limits on nitrogen and ammonia emissions. With farmers fearful of a loss of livelihood if steep cuts on emissions are implemented in the agricultural […]

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Lloyd’s of London insurers will offer a special package to cover Ukrainian grain shipped via freshly-agreed Black Sea corridors in a move that will build confidence around the U.N. agreement, it was announced Friday. One of the chief worries after the U.N., Turkey, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to reopen three Black Sea ports […]

Leaders of the European Parliament’s main groups on Friday castigated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “inexcusable statements” on race and Europe, urging the bloc to continue withholding funds from the country. The statement, approved Friday evening, came from the Parliament’s Conference of Presidents, which includes leaders of the legislative body’s various political groups, as well […]

The Ukrainian military command has accused Russian troops of deliberately shelling a jail containing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern Donetsk region in the early hours of Friday, which reportedly resulted in dozens of deaths. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, targeted artillery shelling of the prison was carried out […]

DUBLIN — The wife of Ireland’s president is facing accusations of pro-Kremlin bias and pushing a bogus sense of moral equivalence after calling on Ukraine “to agree to a ceasefire and negotiations” with Russia. Sabina Higgins’ intervention initially flew under the radar when it appeared this week in the Irish Times letters page using only […]

Ukraine is ready to start shipments of grain under a deal it has signed with Turkey, Russia and the U.N., President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday. Zelenskyy visited the Chornomorsk port in Odesa for the loading of the first ships. An official statement from his office said “exports may begin in the coming days.” “Our […]