During the first two weeks of January some 1,200 people applied to the force, four times as many as during the same period in 2023. “Fifteen years ago many people…
Read more Russia turns Sweden’s Home Guard into a recruitment triumphParliament on Monday opened an internal probe into Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka after an independent Russian investigative newspaper, the Insider, reported she had been working as an agent…
Read more There are more Russian spies in EU Parliament, Latvian lawmakers sayNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will wage war elsewhere if Russia defeats Ukraine. “If Putin wins in Ukraine, there is real risk…
Read more NATO chief sees ‘real risk’ of Putin attacking other countries after UkrainePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Think the location of this year’s global climate summit is contentious? Wait till you hear about the…
Read more Russia is holding next year’s global climate summit ‘hostage’Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Defense ministers flying into the Belgian capital for a NATO meeting starting Wednesday were expecting…
Read more NATO forced to do the splits over support for both Israel and UkrainePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WARSAW — Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is in the fight of its political life…
Read more Warsaw makes a risky political bet in attacking UkraineKyiv is unlikely to renew a gas transit deal that allows Russia’s Gazprom to export natural gas to the EU using pipelines running across Ukraine, Energy Minister German…
Read more Ukraine warns key Russian gas supply to Europe will be cutKYIV – Ukrainian officials and intelligence officers warned Russia could be preparing to blow up a nuclear power station, leading to a radioactive environmental disaster. After the Kakhovka…
Read more Ukraine warns of nuclear disaster as Russia orders staff to leave power plantWhat to gift the man who is barred from receiving anything, and also is Vladimir Putin’s biggest political foe? How about a mass demonstration? That’s what supporters of…
Read more Anti-war Russians face dilemma with Sunday’s mass Navalny protestsBRUSSELS — The EU has sent Ukraine 220,000 rounds of ammunition since pledging in March to get the war-stricken country 1 million shells in 12 months, putting the bloc…
Read more EU claims it’s now on track to get Ukraine 1M ammo roundsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. A new law that allows Russia to seize foreign-owned energy assets should be a final warning to…
Read more Get out of Russia while you still can, ex-oligarch warns Western energy giantsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Pressure is building on France to fully cut ties with Russia’s atomic sector as the…
Read more French-Russian nuclear relations turn radioactivePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. There’s an Emmanuel Macron-shaped shadow hovering over this week’s U.S. visit by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.…
Read more Poland’s Morawiecki plays Europe’s anti-Macron in WashingtonEurope has special forces on the ground in Ukraine. Poland and Slovenia are providing nearly half of the tanks heading to Kyiv. And Hungary may be letting arms…
Read more Here’s what the leaked US war files tell us about EuropeChinese President Xi Jinping’s marathon three-day visit to Moscow was hailed by the Kremlin as the dawn of a new age of “deeper” ties between the two countries,…
Read more Cut off by Europe, Putin pins hopes on powering China insteadBERLIN — German prosecutors have found “traces” of evidence indicating that Ukrainians may have been involved in the explosions that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines in…
Read more In Nord Stream bombings probe, German investigators see Ukraine link, reports sayMUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called out Vladimir Putin for telling him last year that the paramilitary Wagner Group had nothing to do with Russia.…
Read more Macron calls out Russia for work with ‘neo-mafia’ Wagner groupPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — Vladimir Putin is a “radically rational” leader who is betting that Western countries will grow…
Read more Vladimir Putin is not mad, just ‘radically rational,’ says former French presidentPARIS — France will deliver “light” battle tanks to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron’s office announced Wednesday, adding that France would be the first country to send such Western-designed…
Read more Macron promises to send first Western tanks to UkrainePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. For many officials, it’s a topic they won’t touch. When pressed, politicians give memorized, terse and robotic…
Read more The West’s last war-time taboo: Ukraine joining NATO
