Category: 4. World

The European Union is drawing a line.

After being sidelined by the White House in direct negotiations with Russia over the fate of Ukraine, Europeans are looking to muscle their way back to the negotiating table.

One card they are yet to play…

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that his troops will take Ukraine’s eastern Donbas by force if it is not ceded by Kyiv, describing some proposals in a US plan to end the war in Ukraine as unacceptable to the Kremlin.

Putin, who is on a state visit to India, said in an…

A year after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria remains a country very much in transition. Much of its infrastructure is in tatters, and the price tag for rebuilding the war-torn state stands at over $200 billion. It is in desperate…

Summary of some core findings in the major nine-country poll released on Thursday by French magazine Le Grand Continent: 

• Just over half of respondents (51%) felt the risk of war with Russia was elevated
• More than 80% did not believe that…