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Egypt will refuse to buy Russian shipments of grain sourced in occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday. “Spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who told me Egypt will no longer accept grain exported by Russia from our temporarily occupied territories,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram, adding that Cairo had expressed an interest in […]

In an interview with TG1, Meloni said she had chosen to travel to the Gulf “as a gesture of solidarity” with regional allies. But she admitted the trip also had the pragmatic goal of securing Rome’s access to the region’s oil. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which some 20 percent of the […]

In the letter, the ministers argued Brussels should do as it did following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, when it authorized the imposition of a temporary “solidarity contribution” on energy companies to “mitigate the direct economic effects of the soaring energy prices for public authorities’ budgets, final customers and companies.” The 2022 measure imposed a […]

U.S. job growth surged past expectations in March and the unemployment rate dropped, giving President Donald Trump some breathing room as the economy comes under increasing pressure over the war in Iran and rising oil prices. Companies added a net 178,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, a huge swing from February, when […]

Deutschland sehnt sich nach einem Comeback, doch der versprochene Aufschwung der schwarz-roten Koalition lässt auf sich warten. Während traditionsreiche Parteien wie die SPD und die FDP schwächeln und die Union als Kanzlerpartei nach Orientierung sucht, regieren im Land eher Zweifel statt Tatendrang. In diesem Spezial analysiert Rixa Fürsen den Status Quo mit Ulf Poschardt, dem […]

No final decisions have been made on Chavez-DeRemer and Lutnick — and Trump has contemplated firing people and then backed off before. Should Trump proceed with a larger set of Cabinet changes, it could represent a major attempted reset for an administration confronting an ominous political landscape. The potential high-level shuffling, a second, senior official […]

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, setting up a potentially heated dialogue after Trump’s frequent attacks on NATO allies’ lukewarm support for the war in Iran. Rutte will travel to Washington to meet with Trump on Wednesday, Rutte’s office announced in a social media post. He’ll also […]

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The U.S. military is scrambling to find the pilots of an F-15 fighter jet downed over Iran on Friday, in a possible blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to quickly wrap up the weekslong conflict. A U.S. official confirmed Iranian state media reports about the incident and said efforts were underway to secure their rescue. The whereabouts […]