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Donald Trump, Friday, February 13: "Russia wants to make a deal, and Zelensky will have to move. Otherwise, he will miss out on a great opportunity. He has to move." Marco Rubio, Saturday, February 14: "We don't know if the Russians are serious about ending the war. They say they are. Within only 24 hours, the US president and the US...

A Spanish citizen was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for impersonating a service provider to the EU mission in Somalia, in order to fraudulently obtain funds, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain). At issue are funds allocated to the EU Capacity Building Mission in Somalia (EUCAP Somalia), mandated to assist Federal Somali Police...

In Munich, Starmer stressed that “we are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore” Something potentially consequential emerged from the Munich Security Conference: The chill wind coming in from the United States is pushing the European Union and the Britain a little bit closer to coming together again. Consider a simple fact: Europe accounts for 20 percent of America’s exports...

At a panel at the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski took the opportunity to declare that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had departed from a longstanding diplomatic norm by publicly signaling support for conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki ahead of his presidential victory in Poland last year. Trump’s choice of hosting Nawrocki at...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has informed the country’s lawmakers that his daughter is his official heir.  Kim Ju Ae appears to be approximately middle-school aged. She is  the only known child of Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju.  The (National Intelligence Service) NIS has expressed belief that Kim Jong Un has a son who is older...

The board is set to have its first meeting on February 19 in Washington Its permanent members must pay $1 billion to join Romanian President Nicușor Dan says he will participate next week as an observer in the first meeting of US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace. Dan said he was accepting an invitation from Trump, in a message...

For US ice skater, Ilia Malinin, it was a nightmare seven minutes on ice at the most important moment of his career, followed by a wonderful display of character. For observers around the world, it was a lesson in class and humility that is rare at the highest levels of sport. The 21-year-old Quad God’s epic meltdown on the ice late...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Slovakia and Hungary to discuss energy deals and peace initiatives with nationalist leaders. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungary's Viktor Orbán agree with Trump's agenda on migration and Ukraine and are fierce critics of the European Union. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio began his Central European tour in Bratislava, Slovakia, on...

Five European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, have accused Russia of poisoning opposition politician Alexei Navalny in prison in 2024 using a rare toxin. The heads of French, British, German, Dutch and Swedish diplomacy said that 'only the Russian state had the means, the motive and the contempt for international law' to carry out this attack in comments made...

Romanian tourists clocked up almost one million overnight stays in Bulgaria in 2025,  8.5% more than the previous year, and the highest number of tourists from Romania ever recorded. It is a remarkable increase of 51.2% compared to the level of 2019, before the pandemic. Acting Tourism Minister Miroslav Borsos said Saturday the results were proof of the government’s efforts to...