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GE16 may be far off, but the drums of war are beating
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (561+ words) Perikatan Nasional treasurer-general Sanusi Nor made no attempt to disguise the fact that Saturday's motorcycle convoy in Terengganu was staged to highlight that Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan " allies in the unity government " are the real burden as the country…...
ECB official calls for transition away from fossil fuels
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (238+ words) Europe's energy dependence increasingly complicates the task of maintaining price stability," Frank Elderson, a member of the ECB's executive board, wrote in a blog post. The continent must transition now " or pay more later", Elderson said, arguing that cutting reliance…...
France plans 36 billion euro boost to rearmament, nuclear deterrent expansion
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (575+ words) The increase, proposed despite one of the euro zone's biggest budget deficits, reflects mounting security pressures from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and growing uncertainty over US commitments to Nato under President Donald Trump. The revised 20242030 law would…...
Kyiv calls for Ukraine ceasefire after Iran truce
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (303+ words) American decisiveness works. We believe it is time for sufficient decisiveness to force Moscow to cease fire and end its war against Ukraine," Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on social media. President Volodymyr Zelensky echoed those comments in a…...
German spy agency accuses Russia of new cyberattacks
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (174+ words) A group associated with Russian military intelligence known as APT28, or Fancy Bear, targeted "vulnerable" routers in Germany and elsewhere made by technology company TP-Link, they said. The group is suspected of carrying out numerous cyberattacks worldwide. In Germany it was…...
Vance hails Orban as a "model" for Europe during pre-election Hungary visit
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (465+ words) Orban " the EU leader with the closest ties to US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin " is facing an unprecedented challenge to his 16-year rule in Sunday's vote. Vance arrived on Tuesday in the Hungarian capital Budapest to…...
US vice president Vance departs for Hungary in support of Orban
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (352+ words) We'll talk about any number of things related to the US-Hungary relationship," Vance told the press as he departed from Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington. Obviously, I'm sure Europe and Ukraine and all the other stuff will figure…...
Russian strike on Ukrainian market kills 5, wounds 19
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (491+ words) The market, in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was hit at 9. 50am (0650 GMT), the local prosecutor's office said. Regional governor Oleksandr Ganja said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed. He added that a 14-year-old girl…...
Telling the truth about China's success
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (808+ words) As missiles, bombs, and drones fly across the Persian Gulf, the prospects of an even more devastating war in the Pacific are strengthening. De-escalation of the new cold war between the US and China must now become the world's top…...
Trump's anger over Iran thrusts Nato into fresh crisis
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (1108+ words) However, it is the US-Israeli war with Iran, thousands of miles from Europe, that has nearly broken the 76-year-old bloc and threatens to leave it in its weakest state since its creation, say analysts and diplomats. Trump, enraged that European…...