On the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag, the national flag of the Crimean Tatars was solemnly raised near the building of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA), which reported same on Thursday.
“On June 26, on the Day of the Crimean…
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France to cut extra €4.7B in spending this year as debt hits new record – POLITICO
“The additional effort decided today reflects a clear determination to act without delay to meet our targets for controlling public finances and debt,” Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said in a statement.
Measures to reduce healthcare spending include lowering the amount spent in…
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Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Sheryl Crow sign letter opposing Trump's food and medical cuts
“This is unacceptable and wrong,” states the open letter, as the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is currently being proposed to senators.
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Balfour Beatty secures £833 million contract for world’s first gas-fired power station
Balfour Beatty shares rose 2.7% after the company said it won a £833 million contract to help build the world’s first gas-fired power station for Net Zero…
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Venezuelan ex-spy chief pleads guilty to narco-terror charges
Venezuela’s former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal – also known as “El Pollo”, or The Chicken – has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in the US.
US officials accused the 65-year-old of forming part of a…
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The war in Ukraine shows the West can re-arm without re-industrialising
Inside the Joint Systems Manufacturing Centre (jsmc) in Ohio, America’s main factory for armoured vehicles since 1942, the production line for the latest version of the Abrams tank snakes back and forth across the factory floor. America no…
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Colombia’s dire president gets desperate
IT has been a frustrating few years for Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first avowedly left-wing president. He was elected in 2022 on a promise to overhaul pensions, the health-care system and labour laws, and to dramatically reduce inequality. He…
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Germany is embarking on an almighty borrowing binge
THESE DAYS the streets of Berlin run red with the blood of sacred cows. On June 24th Lars Klingbeil, the finance minister, unveiled plans to borrow vast sums for a debt-funded €500bn ($580bn) infrastructure programme and a giant rearmament…
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How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe
It takes weeks of haggling by ministers and their diplomatic underlings to craft what the leaders of the European Union later announce as the “conclusions” of their regularly scheduled confabs. Settling into a windowless conference room for a…
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Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting
ABRUTALIST COMPLEX somewhere in Kyiv, strewn with rubbish and weeds, offers a vision for Ukraine’s survival on the future battlefield. At one end is a recruitment office, where lines of 20-somethings are receiving their first orders. At another…
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