Belgium summons US ambassador over antisemitism claims – POLITICO

Belgium’s Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot has summoned Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to the country, over his comments accusing Belgium of antisemitism and lashing out against its health minister. “Any suggestion that Belgium is antisemitic is false, offensive, and unacceptable. Belgium condemns antisemitism with the greatest firmness,” Prévot wrote Monday evening in a long post […]

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Trump wants critical minerals. So do Cornwall’s MPs. – POLITICO

“Critical minerals are essential to the U.K.’s economy, national security, and clean energy transition,” the strategy declared.  Cornwall’s two biggest lithium extractors, British Lithium and Cornish Lithium, estimate they could produce 45,000 tons per year combined. Both companies have demonstration facilities up and running, with plans to begin commercial production before the end of the decade. An aerial view of […]

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Alleged ISIS supporter charged over plans to attack 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna – POLITICO

According to prosecutors, the suspect obtained bomb-making plans online and received instructions from other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on handling explosives. He is also accused of buying materials to produce an explosive called triacetone triperoxide (TATP), and of trying to buy firearms online. Prosecutors further allege that he encouraged […]

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Berlin to extend beefed-up border checks – POLITICO

But the checks have angered Berlin’s neighbors, in part for creating traffic headaches at border crossings, and led to tit-for-tat retaliation from Warsaw. A Berlin court also deemed the most controversial measure of Berlin’s border regime — namely turning away asylum seekers at its frontiers — to be in violation of European law. Chancellor Friedrich […]

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Trump calls Gavin Newsom’s clean energy deal with the UK ‘inappropriate’

President Donald Trump on Monday slammed a new clean energy agreement between California and the United Kingdom, deriding Gov. Gavin Newsom and warning British leaders against partnering with the Democratic governor. “The U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,” Trump said in a brief interview with POLITICO, using his derogatory nickname for […]

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Likely French presidential candidate Mélenchon under fire after activist beaten to death – POLITICO

Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said France Unbowed had a “moral responsibility” for fostering a “climate of violence.” During a meeting Sunday in support of a local candidate in Montpellier, Mélenchon expressed “empathy for the family of young Quentin” and said that “for [France Unbowed], nonviolence is a fundamental philosophical choice. Violence stunts our movements and […]

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