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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in De Volkskrant, Netherlands, October 31, 2024 | By Schot First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Costa Rica, November 3, 2024 | By Arcadio Esquivel First published in De...
View ArticlePoland’s Tusk to meet EU, UK, NATO leaders on Ukraine after Trump win
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk plans meetings with leaders from the EU, the U.K. and NATO to discuss the situation in Ukraine after Donald Trump’s election victory in the United States. Tusk said...
View ArticleCan Trump be the new Reagan?
Eight years ago, at a post-election breakfast party we threw in POLITICO’s Brussels offices, I watched Donald Trump claim victory in a presidential election for the first time with shell-shocked...
View ArticleOctober was worst month for Russia since start of Ukraine war, UK official says
Russia last month suffered its most significant troop losses since the start of the war in Ukraine while making territorial gains, the United Kingdom’s Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin said...
View ArticleKyiv ‘unaware’ of Trump-Putin call
KYIV — After unconfirmed reports of a phone call between United States President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Ukraine said Monday it was not informed of any such call and even...
View ArticleKyiv’s backers take comfort in Trump’s Cabinet picks
Ukraine’s supporters are daring to hope: Kyiv might just be alright in the Trump era. The latest sighs of (still cautious) relief came after news that President-elect Donald Trump tapped Rep. Michael...
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The Trump resistance goes flaccid
Donald Trump’s 2016 election stunner sparked a global revolt. His 2024 triumph has been met with a weary shrug. The Republican’s first win saw millions of political opponents protesting on the streets...
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Scholz stakes reelection bid on his ‘prudent’ Ukraine policy
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is staking his political future on what he frames as his cautious approach to Ukraine. In a speech to parliamentarians on Wednesday, Scholz said he stands by his...
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‘Terrifying’: Trump’s Cabinet picks trigger unease in Europe
BRUSSELS — At first, European diplomats even felt some relief about the shape of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s new Cabinet when he chose Florida Republican Marco Rubio to be America’s top...
View ArticleBeing president is a man’s job, roars Belarusian dictator
Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for three decades, has some wise insight on what it takes to be a president: Be a man. “God forbid that a woman is elected in Belarus,” the president, who...
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Trump threatens to be good for Ukraine, actually
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump manages to engineer a peace deal and bring the Ukraine war to a close he’ll likely get no thanks for it — even...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz urges Putin to end Ukraine war during first call in 2 years
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a conversation Friday to “end” his war on Ukraine and to “withdraw troops.” The conversation, which took place over the...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in Le Temps, Switzerland, November 10, 2024 | By Patrick Chappatte First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, November 12, 2024 | By Arend van Dam First published in U.T. Independent,...
View ArticleAustria says Russia to cut off gas supplies on Saturday
Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom will end its gas deliveries to Austria this weekend, Austrian energy firm OMV said, but Chancellor Karl Nehammer reassured his country that there is a...
View ArticlePositively surprised by call with Trump, Germany’s Scholz says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was positively surprised by his phone call with Donald Trump following the Republican’s reelection as U.S. president last week. “That was — perhaps surprisingly —...
View ArticleScholz call with Putin opens ‘Pandora’s box,’ Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin has opened a “Pandora’s box,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, complaining that the conversation undermines...
View ArticleRussia hits Ukraine energy system with massive attack of drones, missiles
Russia unleashed a huge assault against energy infrastructure across Ukraine overnight using scores of drones and missiles, in an apparent effort to destabilize the country ahead of winter. “A massive...
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As Trump looms large, can Keir Starmer save the world?
RIO DE JANEIRO — As progressives around the world are washed away by a rising tide of populism, one man stands as the center left’s great hope. Step forward Keir Starmer. A pragmatist who owes his...
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The death of a Russian defector
The death of a Russian defector: Who failed Maxim Kuzminov? Ukraine’s most celebrated deserter was gunned down in a Spanish beach town. By CLAUDIA CHIAPPA, EVA HARTOG, and VERONIKA MELKOZEROVAin...
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Trump shock waves ripple through fragmented G20
RIO DE JANEIRO — The leaders of the world’s largest economies will be gathered together in the same room Monday in what could be a unique opportunity to address the wars and crises rippling across the...
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