Renewed Israel-Gaza war crowds out climate at COP28
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. DUBAI — The war in Gaza crashed into the…
Putin sends cannibals to fight in Ukraine
Russia needs fresh meat for its meat grinder of a war in Ukraine. So it’s using cannibals. In the best…
Kremlin seeking to eliminate me in Operation Maidan 3, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s aware of Russia’s latest plot to remove him from power by the end of…
AI ‘Tom Cruise’ joins fake news barrage targeting Olympics
In a dramatic voiceover interspersed with footage of International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach, Hollywood A-lister Tom Cruise warns that…
US isn’t ready for a war of great powers
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Andrew A. Michta is senior fellow and director of…
Russia arrests 60 after anti-Israeli rioters storm Dagestan airport
Russian police arrested 60 people Monday after a huge crowd stormed the main airport in the Dagestan region to protest the…
EU leaders approve using profits from frozen Russian assets
BRUSSELS — EU leaders endorsed unprecedented plans to use profits generated by frozen Russian state assets for Ukraine reconstruction, and called…
The enemies of democracy are testing us
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Mathias Döpfner is chairman and CEO of Axel Springer,…
Putin’s not dying, Kremlin says
The Kremlin has brushed off claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ill, after speculative media reports that he’d suffered…
Pipeline damage probe centers on Chinese ship, Finland says
The investigation into the damaged gas pipeline connecting Finland to the rest of Europe is focusing on the role of…
Gaganyaan mission: ISRO to launch flight test from Sriharikota today
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch an uncrewed flight test on Saturday morning, marking…
Putin to meet Xi in China this week
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing this week — a rare international visit by…
Russian Attacks Are Edging Closer and Closer to NATO Territory
(Bloomberg) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has an increasingly tricky problem in its backyard: how to confront the spillover…
Blinken: US and EU need legal frameworks to seize Russian assets
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said legal studies are under way on how Russia’s assets abroad can be seized…
Ukraine war: Drones shot down, pro-war journalists sent pig heads
All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. Ukraine thwarts more than 30 drone attacks overnight ADVERTISEMENT Ukraine said…
Did a billboard welcoming Zelenskyy contain an embarrassing typo?
A video shows a spelling mistake on a digital billboard in New York reading “Glory to Urine” instead of “Glory…
Brussels calls on tech giants to help fight election disinformation
Commissioner Jourova accused Moscow of spreading fake news. The European Commission is concerned about disinformation coming from Russia in view…
TikTok and Meta warned over Slovakia election lies
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Brussels warned social media giants Alphabet, TikTok and Meta…
NATO chief warns Ukraine allies to prepare for ‘long war’
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the war Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging on Ukraine won’t be over any…
‘Hard to keep up morale’: Ukrainians on being forced to live in Russia
The Ukrainian government says that there are thousands of Ukrainian kids who were forced to go to Russia amid the…
Von der Leyen invokes ‘call of history’ as she backs EU membership for Ukraine
STRASBOURG — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invoked the “call of history” as she urged Europeans to bring…
Musk biographer tries to ‘clarify’ details on Starlink in Ukraine after outcry
Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson took to social media to try to “clarify” an excerpt in his upcoming book that…
Russia snubs UN proposal to rejoin Black Sea grain deal
Russia on Saturday stressed again that it was not willing to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal unless its demands…
Fact-check: Why are certain Wagner graves being destroyed in Russia?
One particular video accused the Kremlin of attempting to erase the memory of Wagner soldiers after the sudden death of…
BRICS hypocrisy on offshore reform
Andrea Binder is a Freigeist fellow and research group leader at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie…
Back to work: the EU’s to-do list between now and the 2024 elections
After a month-long summer break, the European Union is back to work. It’s officially the rentrée for the EU as glowingly…
Give Russia security guarantees for lasting peace in Ukraine, Hungary says
The West should give Russia security guarantees and ban Ukraine from joining NATO, a senior Hungarian minister said on Sunday…
Putin’s crocodile tears
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Eight…
Kaja Kallas faces more heat amid probe of husband’s Russia business ties
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is facing growing criticism after Estonian media reports revealed her husband’s business ties to Russia, which…
Prigozhin’s lesson for Trump & Co: Don’t trust Putin’s promises
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has…
Ukraine revels in Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s demise
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in…
Jet believed to be carrying Wagner boss Prigozhin crashes in Russia
A private plane carrying Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has crashed, taking the lives of all on board, Moscow…
Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon
The first Russian lunar mission in nearly half a century ended with a bang. The Luna-25, which left earth on…
Ukraine foreign minister pushes back against counteroffensive doubters
Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of…
First ship safely exits Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor despite Russian blockade
A cargo ship has successfully made the voyage across the Black Sea from Ukraine to Turkey, using a shipping corridor…
Sarkozy says Europe ‘needs’ Russia, slams Europe’s Ukraine policy
PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says “diplomacy, discussions and talks” are “the only ways” to resolve Russia’s war…
Russia foils rocket attack on Crimea bridge as drones target peninsula
Russian forces shot down two Ukrainian rockets targeting the Crimean bridge on Saturday, while 20 drones were launched at the…
Russia shoots for the moon as space race against US heats up
Despite war and sanctions, Vladimir Putin is trying to haul Russia back into the space race. In the early hours…
What China really thinks about Ukraine
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European…
Georgia: A border in my backyard
Clément Girardot is a freelance writer focusing on international reporting, especially from the South Caucasus and Turkey. His work has appeared…
Ukrainian drones attack Russian Black Sea naval base, Moscow says
Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian naval base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Friday, according to Moscow’s defense…
Nuclear weapons on the table if Ukraine counteroffensive succeeds: Russia’s Medvedev
If Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive against Moscow’s invasion captures Russian territory, there would be no alternative to using strategic nuclear weapons,…
Wagner fighters may pose as migrants to enter EU, Polish PM claims
A group of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus has moved closer to the Polish border and may stage a “hybrid attack”…
Europe’s plan to stabilize West Africa erupts — again
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS/PARIS — Europe’s hope it could buoy an island of…
Russia closes Crimea bridge — again — after attack on ammo depot
Four days after re-opening the strategic Crimea bridge that links Russia to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula, Moscow was forced to…
Pro-war Putin critic Igor Girkin arrested
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Igor Girkin, a former soldier-spy and critic of President…
Moscow says Black Sea grain deal is dead
The Kremlin said on Monday that a U.N.-brokered deal to allow the safe passage of Ukrainian grain exports through the…