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Ten people are dead in a school shooting in the rural town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. Among the dead, from what appears to be self-inflicted injury, is the alleged shooter — a brown-haired woman wearing a dress.  This is the deadliest shooting in Canada since 2020. On February 10, local time, Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to Tumbler Ridge...

And other tales from Bad Bunny's Isla Del Encanto Bad Bunny’s halftime show in Spanish at the Super Bowl got me thinking about the complicated issue of minority language rights in a country. It seems the spectacle, watched by well over 100 million people, impressed the hell out of many people and offended certain others — basically for being in...

Military experts have discussed a scenario in which Romania would become the Kremlin’s main target, citing disinformation about the possible deployment of NATO troops in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.  Russian publication news.ru said such an action would lead to the use of nuclear weapons against Bucharest. In an article titled “Death to Romania: Why NATO Will Not Deploy Troops in...

In an interview published on 9 February in Le Monde, French President Emmanuel Macron reinforced his call for a new joint borrowing initiative by the European Union.  The proposal is intended to finance strategic investments and strengthen the EU’s ability to compete in an increasingly fragmented global economy. It echoes the common debt issued during the Coronavirus pandemic.  In the interview, Macron...

There is really no one in Washington to argue with. Europe and others have to pick up the slack, until the fever lifts. Maybe in November. Perhaps the most shocking thing about the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization last month was that it was not a shock and indeed went hardly noticed. For those who missed it, distracted...

Poor Trump made the same mistake as his idol, Putin: he had thought he could quickly crush Ukraine, he thought Europe was already crushed. Finally, Europe has accepted reality: that the Trump administration's hostility to the ‘old continent’ is deep, but above all that the Trump administration's hostility needs to be met with the same response. Finally, in recent weeks, Europe...

Former Romanian presidential candidate, Calin Georgescu can stand trial on charges of promoting 'legionnaire propaganda" The Bucharest Tribunal on Monday definitively rejected his appeal against the charges as 'baseless' meaning he will stand trial. No date has been set. "Rejects, as unfounded, the appeal filed by the challenger – defendant Georgescu Călin, against the conclusion pronounced on 09.12.2025 by the preliminary...

BlackRock’s IBIT posts record daily volumes After dropping to its lowest price since the US presidential election in November 2024, bitcoin has rebounded slightly and is currently trading at $70,000 where it seems to have stabilized, Simon Peters, cryptoasset market analyst at multi-asset investment platform eToro writes. Sentiment in the crypto space, as measured by the Crypto fear and Greed index,...

President Nicusor Dan on Monday congratulated the president-elect of Portugal, a moderate socialist Antonio Jose Seguro, expressing  confidence in ongoing cooperation and strengthening of friendship between the EU and NATO nations. "Congratulations and best wishes to António José Martins Seguro for his recent election as the new president of the Portuguese Republic," President Nicusor Dan wrote on the X network...

Romanian athletes are competing in the luge and ski jumping, on Monday at the Milan Winter Olympics that runs from February 6-22. Day 3 Monday, February 9 (Romanian time) LUGE 18:00 – Women's luge, round 1: Ioana-Corina Buzățoiu19:32 – Women's individual luge, round 2: Ioana-Corina Buzățoiu SKI JUMP 19:00 – Normal Hill, Men's Individual – Trials: Daniel Cacina, Mihnea Spulber20:00 – Normal Hill,...