Romania’s presidential front-runner Georgescu benefited from Russia-style...
Romania’s ultranationalist presidential candidate Călin Georgescu benefited from a TikTok campaign that was similar to influence operations run by the Kremlin in Ukraine and Moldova, according to...
View ArticlePutin changes ruble rules to keep Russian gas flowing to EU
Russia will loosen restrictions on the way foreign countries must pay for its fossil fuels in order to circumvent new sanctions imposed by Washington on a leading bank. In an order published Thursday,...
View ArticleRomanian election: What the hell is going on?
BUCHAREST — Scrapping an election between two rounds of voting is a massive step to take, but Romania’s Constitutional Court decided it was essential to protect democracy from foreign attack. The...
View ArticleBracing for a Russian attack: EU defense chief wants €100B for weapons
BRUSSELS — EU Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius wants the EU’s next seven-year budget to allocate “not far away from” €100 billion for defense. That would be a massive increase — he...
View ArticleTrump tells Putin it’s ‘time to act’ on cease-fire talks with Zelenskyy
Kyiv is ready to make a deal with Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin should make efforts toward negotiating a truce, United States President-elect Donald Trump...
View ArticleKyiv reveals total Ukraine casualties in Putin’s war for first time
KYIV — Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in action and 370,000 more were wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said...
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Trump pledges peace through strength. Will he deliver?
Andrew Chakhoyan is an academic director at the University of Amsterdam. He previously served in the U.S. government and oversaw regional government affairs at the World Economic Forum (covering...
View ArticleAssad’s downfall — the winners and losers
After a lightning rebel advance overran Damascus and forced Syrian strongman Bashar Assad to flee, the world is trying to understand the latest dramatic rupture in the Middle East and its...
View ArticlePutin personally granted asylum to Syria’s Assad, Kremlin confirms
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally decided to grant asylum to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his family, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday. “Such decisions certainly...
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Vladimir Putin
By patiently playing the long game, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be achieving his goal of fracturing the West and conquering parts of Ukraine. Nearly three years ago, Putin, 72, launched...
View ArticlePutin sending Russia’s new hypersonic missiles to Belarus
Russia is preparing to deploy its new hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in Belarus in 2025, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday. Lukashenko said he had asked Russian President Vladimir...
View ArticleMacron, Tusk to discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force
French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk the deployment of a postwar peacekeeping force in Ukraine when the two meet in Warsaw on Thursday, a European Union...
View ArticleOrbán calls Putin to discuss ending Ukraine war
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to talk about peace plans for Ukraine. “I had an hour-long phone conversation this morning with President...
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Why Nigel Farage’s path to power runs through a rainswept seaside town
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England — Icy rain is falling on the faded Essex seaside town of Clacton, but Nigel Farage is grinning as he throws an arm around Santa in a makeshift grotto in an old sea cadet...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published on Cagle.com, Austria, December 8, 2024 | By Marian Kamensky First published on Cagle.com, The Netherlands, December 12, 2024 | By Tom Janssen First published on PoliticalCartoons.com,...
View ArticleUS set to sanction Serbia’s main oil company over Russian ownership, Vučić says
Serbian oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) faces financial sanctions from the United States as soon as next month because of its Russian ownership, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said late...
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Scanning the seas for Russians: Aboard France’s Baltic NATO mission
ABOARD FRENCH MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT ATL 2 — Above the Baltic Sea, about four hours after taking off from Brittany’s Lann-Bihoué airbase, the crew of the French Atlantique ATL2 aircraft found what...
View Article‘Significant number’ of North Korean troops in Kursk, Zelenskyy says
Moscow deployed a ” significant number” of North Korean soldiers to help Russia’s offensive against Ukraine’s forces in the Kursk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday. “We...
View ArticleRussian oil tankers in distress in Black Sea
Two Russian oil tankers with 29 crew members have been heavily damaged and are now leaking oil in the Black Sea, Russian authorities said on Sunday. “Today two tankers, Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft...
View ArticleRussia to mass-produce new hypersonic ballistic missiles, Putin says
Russia will launch the serial production of its new powerful Oreshnik missiles in the “near future,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.“In the near future, serial production of such systems...
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