Caught between Russia’s war in Ukraine, a disruptive U.S. president, the rise of hard-right parties in Europe, and the continent’s struggle to influence world events, European citizens are often confused. But they may have different reasons…
By 10am on the midsummer Day of the Ox, the city of Narita smells of charcoal and sugar. The cobbled road is thronged with visitors lining up to buy grilled eel, a traditional delicacy believed to cool the body and keep spirits up in the humid…
Let’s be honest: no one likes the cold. You might like wrapping up warm, or coming home to fairy lights and a cup of hot chocolate, but even then what you really like is getting out of the cold. If you’re looking for an escape from northern…
Despite record clean energy investment, coal, deforestation and fossil fuel finance are still rising, warns new report.
“Today I am urgently convening a meeting of the National Security Committee — it will take place at 1:30 p.m. This morning I already demanded that everyone come with concrete solutions. We must discuss this situation immediately and we must find — not debate, but find — what to…
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Germany’s July 2025 medium-term fiscal-structural plan exposes the tension between raising public investment in a low-risk country and the requirement in European Union fiscal rules for member state debt to comply…
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The 2010s saw economic weakness across Europe’s periphery. Countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, and so forth were the sites of so much stress. In the…
A person drove a vehicle into a gate outside the White House on Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service.
“At approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th & E St, NW,” the Secret Service said on X.
The law…
Did you know that Sanae Takaichi, who became Japan’s first female Prime Minister this week, was once a heavy metal drummer?
