Cutting off Russian gas to EU will have ‘drastic’ impact, Slovak PM warns
The European Union, and not Russia, will suffer after Ukraine turned off the tap on Russian gas supplies to the bloc, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico said Wednesday. Kyiv refused to prolong a...
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Strengthen Ukraine so there can be real peace
Yegor Firsov is a combat paramedic in Avdiivka, Ukraine. He is an activist and a former member of the Ukrainian parliament. This article was translated from Ukrainian by Valentyna Marchenko. DONBAS —...
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Robert Fico’s Russian gas fearmongering falls flat
PRAGUE — Robert Fico didn’t get much of a break over the holidays. As ordinary Slovaks were preparing to celebrate Christmas and New Year, their populist prime minister was locked in a battery of...
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How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?
LONDON — He’s a billionaire firebrand at the forefront of green tech, owns a powerful political media platform — and has the ear of the incoming president of the United States. So it’s little wonder...
View ArticleMoscow vows retaliation for Ukraine strikes with US-made missiles
Moscow threatened to retaliate after claiming to have downed eight U.S.-manufactured missiles fired from Ukraine toward Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region. “These actions by the Kyiv regime, which...
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Ukraine doubles down on Kursk with new offensive into Russia
KYIV — Ukrainian forces kicked off a new counterattack deep into Russian territory on Sunday, sparking a spate of fierce battles along the front lines. According to footage posted online, columns of...
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Poland’s changing population mix turns political
WARSAW — In a 1989 Polish movie, “300 Miles to Heaven,” two brothers stow away to Sweden underneath a truck. More than three decades later, people are risking their lives to get into Poland. Saad, an...
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Europe’s chance to secure peace in Ukraine
Krišjānis Kariņš is the former prime minister of Latvia (2019–2023). Europe’s future security is hanging by a thread. Yet, for many on the continent, the war in Ukraine seems remote. Indeed, walking...
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11 deadly trip wires for Keir Starmer as UK politics roars back
LONDON — Keir Starmer had a rocky first six months in office — and the road looks set to only get bumpier. The British prime minister, who took Labour back into power last summer after years in the...
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Zelenskyy reaches out to Trump’s MAGA base in a podcast
KYIV — Ukraine’s president is trying to win over MAGA world. Volodymyr Zelenskyy sat for a three-hour interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman, whose podcasts often attract millions of Donald...
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Azerbaijan president ramps up pressure on Putin over deadly plane crash
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Monday once again blamed Russian officials for the plane crash that killed 38 people on Christmas Day and called for them to be punished. “I can say with...
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13 times Elon Musk meddled in politics
LONDON — Elon Musk just can’t help himself. When he’s not beefing with top Republicans, the X owner and Donald Trump ally likes to spend his time sticking his oar into the affairs of overseas...
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In Austria’s Kickl, the EU has its next Orbán
Europe’s next national leader looks likely to come from the far right. With Herbert Kickl in pole position to become chancellor of Austria, the European Union’s establishment is bracing for fresh...
View ArticleThe method in Trump’s Greenland madness
Donald Trump’s demand for Greenland is no 19th-century imperial throwback. Rather, it signals a hypermodern reality: a world transforming thanks to climate change, with China, Russia and the United...
View ArticleUkraine pleads for continued arms assistance in the era of Trump
The 57 countries forming a coalition that has pumped more than $122 billion in aid to Kyiv must continue no matter who sits in the White House, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded on...
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Elon Musk’s man in the European Parliament
In December 2024, Elon Musk posted a clip on X of a 24-year-old Cypriot lawmaker in the European Parliament arguing it was time to stop aiding Ukraine in its resistance against Russian President...
View ArticleTrump says Putin meeting is being set up
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said late Thursday that a meeting is being set up between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He wants to meet, and we are setting it up,” Trump told a...
View ArticleOlaf Scholz blocked €3B Ukraine aid proposal, German report says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz blocked a proposal for an additional €3 billion aid package for weapons to Ukraine, according to a local media report. The plan, revealed by Spiegel, was introduced by...
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Greenland today, Svalbard tomorrow? Arctic shivers at specter of Trump and Putin
Greenland is just the tip of the iceberg. Competition to rule the wider Arctic and its vast mineral resources and key waterways has ramped up, culminating this week in U.S. President-elect Donald...
View ArticleSerbia hit with double whammy on gas supply
BELGRADE — Serbia is facing a two-pronged squeeze on its energy supplies, with U.S. sanctions targeting its main gas and oil company over Russian ownership and Azerbaijan claiming to not be able to...
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