This week, a raccoon (let’s call him Rocky to honor our elders and betters) in the town of Ashland, Virginia fell through the ceiling of a liquor store, smashed some bottles, got very drunk and passed out on the bathroom floor. We’ve all been there!
We didn’t use to have raccoons in…
The move — prompted by U.S. demands to up its NATO spending, and mirroring the Trump administration’s move to gut its own USAID development budget — shocked Labour’s progressive MPs, supporters and backers in the aid sector.
But unlike attempted cuts to British welfare spending,…
Brussels was jolted this week by dawn raids and an alleged fraud probe involving current and former senior EU diplomats.
Host Sarah Wheaton speaks with Zoya Sheftalovich — a longtime Brussels Playbook editor who has just returned from Australia to begin her new role as…
The Ukrainian Diving Federation wants diver Sofiia Lyskun to be stripped of all awards after the European champion switched her international allegiance to Russia.
Lyskun, 23, who won the 10m synchro title at last year’s European Aquatics Championships, chose to change her citizenship earlier…
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President Donald Trump will take the stage at Friday’s World Cup final draw ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington where he will accept FIFA’s inaugural peace prize, according to a draft of the run-of-show obtained by POLITICO.
During the ceremony, where countries will find out who…
Senior members of the Irish government have been briefed on drone presence in Irish skies on the night Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Ireland, BBC News NI understands.
Zelensky flew into Dublin late on Monday night for a one-day official visit with his wife, First Lady Olena…
“Of course, I could have left politics after winning the election and had a comfortable life, or ANO could have appointed someone else as prime minister,” Babiš said Thursday night in a video address to voters.
“But I am convinced that you would perceive it as a betrayal,” he added. “That…
“There’s always rebalancing amongst the positions that different nations fill across the alliance,” Grynkewich said, adding that “it’s natural that some of that will happen … over the course of the next several months [and] several years.”
Europe’s beer market continues to contract, with production, consumption and exports all declining for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new report.
The report highlights the “persistent challenges” facing the sector at EU-wide level.
It says on-trade beer consumption in…