A spokesperson for Belgium’s foreign ministry told POLITICO on Thursday that it was “monitoring” the case together with the Belgian embassy in Astana. “We are providing our fellow citizens with the necessary consular support,” the spokesperson said. British actor Sacha Baron Cohen created the character Borat, a fictional Kazakh journalist, in a satirical TV show […]
Continue ReadingJapan has suspended operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, hours after its restart, its operator has said. An alarm sounded “during reactor-start-up procedures” at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in Tokyo but the reactor remained “stable”, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) spokesperson Takashi Kobayashi said. Reactor number six restarted on Wednesday a day later than planned due […]
Continue ReadingMerz urged European nations to move swiftly to boost their defense spending and economic competitiveness in order to be able to exert power amid the “tectonic” shifts in the global order. At the same time, he urged Germans and other Europeans not to give up on the transatlantic alliance and NATO, advocating, in effect, a […]
Continue ReadingPaul KirbyEurope digital editor Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelensky arrived in Davos on Thursday ahead of his talks with President Donald Trump (file pic) US President Donald Trump will meet Volodymyr Zelensky at Davos on Thursday, after his envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism about finalising a deal to end the war in Ukraine. “I […]
Continue ReadingBritain’s upper house of parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of banning under-16s from using social media, raising pressure on the government to match a similar ban passed in Australia. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was not ruling out any options and pledged action to protect children, but his government wants to […]
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos declares war on Elon Musk to conquer space.Image: keystone In the space race of tech billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is increasing competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system. 01/22/2026, 06:5201/22/2026, 06:52 Bezos’ space company Blue Origin announced a high-speed network for businesses called TeraWave. The first of the 5,400 satellites planned […]
Continue ReadingTrump hates them, Europe doesn’t care: for the first time, wind turbines and solar panels produced more electricity in EU countries than fossil resources. 01/22/2026, 04:0201/22/2026, 04:02 According to an analysis, wind and solar power generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU for the first time last year. A good 30 percent of […]
Continue ReadingThe Dutch have also declined to take part, while a Danish diplomat, like others granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, told POLITICO that Copenhagen was not even invited to join. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is considering whether to take part, said Tuesday it was “very difficult to imagine how we and Russia would […]
Continue ReadingPaul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent Getty Images Protesters have taken to the streets outside the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland this month What on earth has the last fortnight been all about? In the wake of a successful military operation in Venezuela earlier this month, a buoyed-up Donald Trump started to ratchet up the rhetoric on Greenland. […]
Continue ReadingThe journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.
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