The State Department is adding resources to evacuate stranded Americans in the Middle East, and the Pentagon is scrambling to increase the number of U.S. troops gathering intelligence for operations — the latest indications that the Trump administration was not fully prepared for the broader…
Category: 3. Europe
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Britain looks to Frederiksen’s migration plan to neutralize Farage – POLITICO
A senior Home Office official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive policy details, estimates the changes could extend to thousands of individuals. They would not rule out asylum seekers deemed to have broken the law being forced into destitution and rough sleeping in the…
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Iran war challenges Cyprus’ time in the EU hot seat – POLITICO
Cyprus was forced to postpone a meeting of the 27 national European affairs ministers scheduled for Monday and Tuesday to discuss the bloc’s seven-year budget and Ukraine and Moldova’s path to EU membership. Delegations from those countries had also been due in Nicosia.
A session of…
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Europe’s nationalists head to Washington – POLITICO
Johnson is the star attraction. But the conference is otherwise more of a low-wattage affair, with secondary speakers like recent Romanian presidential candidate George Simion and largely mid-ranking officials from Austria, Belgium, Georgia, Cyprus, Croatia, Serbia and Germany. There are no…
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America needs Europe after all – POLITICO
Starmer, however, is standing his ground, refusing to authorize anything more than “defensive” operations from Royal Air Force facilities in the U.K. and overseas.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is also playing hardball with Trump, condemning what he regards as a law-breaking…
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Trump’s Iran gamble carries a political cost – POLITICO
For one, Trump and his aides have cited many different objectives: deposing the regime, ensuring Iran never has nuclear weapons, destroying the country’s missile capabilities, vanquishing its navy, ending support for its proxies and terrorism, exacting revenge for past attacks killing…
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US Senate rejects bid to scale back Middle East war
The Senate rejected an attempt to rein in the war in Iran, handing President Donald Trump what amounts to an endorsement of his five-day military campaign.
The 47-53 vote split largely along party lines, with Republican senators united to defeat a measure that would have required…
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Moment wolf rescued from canal in northern Italy
Firefighters have rescued a wolf that had fallen into a canal in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto, in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
The distressed animal had taken refuge from flowing waters beneath a footbridge, before the fire brigade’s river rescue team arrived to save it.
After…
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‘We could see triple-digit oil prices’: Inside the Iran war fallout
President Donald Trump once won the loyalty of his base by promising no new wars. That promise now rings hollow for many, especially after his decision to strike Iran last week.
Since the attacks began Saturday, six U.S. service members have been killed. Oil prices are rising. Gulf states are…
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Polish president hunts for alternatives to EU defense loans – POLITICO
However, the government insists that even with a Nawrocki veto, it would still be able to access the EU cash.
But Nawrocki stressed that the SAFE money comes with strings attached. His idea, he says would mean “a concrete and secure alternative for SAFE that will not involve any interest…
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