Category: 3. Europe

The Cézanne, completed around 1890, is one of several cherry-based still-lifes the post-Impressionist painter produced – though this one is rare because it employs watercolour, which he only embraced during the final years of his life, according to the foundation.

Washington was pushing for a far longer horizon for the e-commerce moratorium — with U.S. negotiators seeking a 10-year commitment. Brazil threw a last-minute spanner in the works and was vetoing efforts to extend the moratorium altogether.

On top of that, U.S. officials have linked any…

Even in cases where U.K. participation has been agreed as fine in principle, it can sometimes be blocked in practice by making difficult-to-meet demands of London: usually financial.

A plan for the U.K. to join the first phase of the EU’s SAFE rearmament loan scheme was entirely scuppered…

But Papperger contended that Ukraine’s systems aren’t as sophisticated as the products of major Western defense firms. “This is not the technology of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, or Rheinmetall,” he said.

By contrast, Papperger added, Ukraine’s decentralized drone production is…

The drones crashed near the city of Kouvola, about 200 kilometers northeast of Helsinki, the ministry said, adding that the Finnish Defence Forces are investigating the incident together with other authorities.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told Finnish state broadcaster Yle that the…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it may retaliate against American university campuses in the Middle East, claiming that recent U.S. and Israeli strikes have damaged two Iranian universities.

The group said U.S.-affiliated campuses in the region could become…

Moscow has also taken satellite photographs of a U.S.-U.K. joint military facility in the Indian Ocean, as well as Kuwait International Airport and parts of the infrastructure of the Greater Burgan oil field, Zelenskyy wrote, citing a daily intelligence update. Russia also shared pictures of…