Labour conference: Top things we learned down the POLITICO Pub
LIVERPOOL, England — A parade of top politicians from the governing Labour Party headed through the doors of the POLITICO Pub during the party’s annual conference in Liverpool Monday — with plenty...
View ArticleUkraine regains territory and captures POWs in frontline push
KYIV — Ukraine’s army pushed back Russian forces in a key part of the eastern front with Russia and captured more than 250 prisoners, a senior Ukrainian general announced on Monday. “Russians...
View ArticleMiliband distances Britain from Trump’s G20 Putin invite
LIVERPOOL, England — Britain’s chief diplomat said Monday that the U.K. will not ditch its ban on directly engaging with Russian officials after Donald Trump invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 meeting...
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Putin is testing NATO on Norway’s remote Arctic islands
BARENTSBURG, Norway — For the best part of a century, the biggest threat to the residents of Svalbard was polar bears. Increasingly, it now comes from Russia. Fears are growing that Moscow could use...
View ArticleGermany’s Wadephul meets Russia’s Lavrov amid tensions over ‘escalation’
NEW YORK — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul held a surprise meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the U.N. on Saturday, just one day after he welcomed the U.S. invite for...
View ArticleTrump’s G20 invite to Putin is an ‘opportunity,’ German foreign minister says
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul Friday said that the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 meeting could be the start of “serious negotiations” to end Russia’s full-scale...
View Article4 takeaways from POLITICO’s interviews with French presidential candidates Le...
PARIS — Top contenders for the 2027 presidential election in France laid out their vision for Europe, Ukraine and relationships with fellow capitals at POLITICO’s first Playbook Paris Live summit on...
View ArticleLe Pen welcomes Trump’s G20 invite for Putin
PARIS — French far-right leader and presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen is on board with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to invite Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami in...
View ArticleLe Pen says she won’t leave NATO until Russia’s war in Ukraine ends
PARIS — Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen still wants to take France out of NATO’s integrated command — but won’t do so while Russia’s war in Ukraine still rages on. “As long as there is...
View ArticlePoland scrambles jets after Russian helicopter breaches its airspace
A Russian Mi-8 helicopter briefly violated Polish airspace near the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday, prompting Warsaw to scramble its fighter jets. The Operational Command of Poland’s...
View ArticleFinland’s Stubb warns Europe not to ‘overreact’ to Russian threats and sabotage
NEW YORK — Finnish President Alexander Stubb has a message to European partners amid growing warnings of further Russian escalation: Keep calm and carry on. In recent days, top European officials have...
View ArticlePutin’s party dominates in Russia’s sham elections
President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party secured a majority in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house, following the country’s first parliamentary elections since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of...
View ArticleMassive Ukrainian drone attack hits Moscow on last day of Russian elections
A large-scale overnight drone attack on Moscow by Ukraine killed at least two people and damaged a major oil refinery, Moscow’s regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said Sunday — the last day of voting...
View Article‘There are no decent parties left’: Sham elections underscore Putin’s grip on...
Russia is holding its first parliamentary elections this weekend since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — a vote that sees the opposition scrambling to give voters options in a...
View ArticleUS House passes Russia sanctions bill, handing Trump more leverage against...
The House passed the sweeping Russia sanctions bill long championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday, sending the legislation to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature...
View ArticleUS Democrats demand answers on Trump Jr.’s ties with Russian oligarch
House Democrats have demanded that Donald Trump Jr. preserve all records, documents and communications related to his relationship with Umar Kremlev, the Russian oligarch who reportedly paid for parts...
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‘Horror in the sky’: Ukraine races for a solution to Russian jet-powered drones
KYIV — Russia is upgrading its attack drones by powering them with fast turbojet engines, making them much more difficult to intercept and forcing Ukraine to develop technology to knock them down. The...
View ArticleEurope hesitates as Russian attacks escalate
BRUSSELS — Despite Russia’s intensifying attacks on European critical infrastructure and weapons factories, NATO countries remain wary of making immediate tough moves that could provoke the Kremlin....
View ArticleRussian drone hits passenger train headed from Kyiv to Warsaw
BRUSSELS — Russian drones attacked a crossing point on the Polish-Ukrainian border on Sunday morning, hitting a passenger train two kilometers from the frontier in Volyn Oblast. Ukraine’s state rail...
View ArticleSweden’s NATO missions are at risk if the left wins election, warns PM...
STOCKHOLM — With two days to go before Sweden’s knife-edge general election, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has a warning for Europe: Don’t trust the left on defense. His country has been almost...
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