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The Shah fled Iran 47 years ago today. Tragedy ensued because of a series of mistakes. As Iranians are being murdered by the thousands, the world should help undo it.   On January 16, 1979, exactly 47 years ago, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi left Iran because the country had become ungovernable. For months, mass demonstrations had filled the streets. Strikes had...

Investigative journalist Emilia Șercan faces online harassment and death threats following critical reporting on justice minister The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday condemned ‘online smears, harassment and death threats targeting IPI member and prominent Romanian investigative journalist Emilia Șercan.’ The attacks following her reporting on alleged plagiarism in Justice Minister Radu Marinescu’s PhD thesis. IPI said in stood ‘in full solidarity...

Romania is becoming one of the main pillars of European security, Senate speaker, Mircea Abrudean said on Friday, after the European Commission's decision to approve Romania's application for financing through the SAFE instrument. Romania’s President Nicusor Dan called the development ‘a major step forward to strengthen our security' and Premier Ilie Bolojan  said that highways in an underdeveloped region would...

For much of recorded history, France was the most populous and demographically significant polity on the European continent.  This was not an accident of short-term prosperity. It was the result of long-running structural advantages that allowed France to sustain a large population earlier than its rivals. The French aren’t more fertile: geography, agricultural capacity, political development gave France a demographic...

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Friday postponed a ruling on whether special pensions for magistrates were legal for a record fourth time. The country’s top judge, Lia Savonea, is opposed to scrapping or recalculating the pensions for magistrates which cost the government hundreds of millions of euros every year. About half an hour into Friday's session, the nine judges decided unanimously to...

Israel’s refusal to work with the PA has prolonged Hamas rule. It looks like Trump’s Gaza plan may finally bring that foolishness to an end.   The launch of Phase II of the Trump administration’s Gaza plan, with the creation of a transitional Palestinian technocratic authority, marks an undeclared but important rupture with recent Israeli policy. A governing structure tied unmistakably...

Russia has been on an offensive to sabotage the latest US-led peace talks for several weeks. More specifically, on December 28, 2025, Donald Trump received Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago. The meeting was meant to "crown" the previous US-Ukrainian negotiations, between experts and special envoys (with essential European involvement) for the  framework of a peace plan. Ukraine accepts major concessions, but certain...

Turkey ‌plans ​to deploy ‌fighter jets to Estonia and ​Romania as part of NATO's enhanced air ‍policing missions, its the ​defense ministry said on ​Thursday. Ankara ⁠plans to conduct a four-month deployment in the Baltic nation between August and November 2026, followed by another rotation in Romania from ‌December 2026 to March 2027, according to the ministry at its weekly...

The Italian Carabinieri have carried out preventive seizures in an investigation into a fraud scheme affecting EU agricultural funds in Sardinia, acting on a request from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Rome. The investigation revealed a complex fraud scheme involving the false declaration of ownership and availability of agricultural land to obtain EU subsidies under the Common Agricultural...

A Special Briefing. Trump is right that Greenland is strategically vital. But he is confusing the need for access with ownership and causing a global emergency.   “We need Greenland for national security and one way or another we’re going to get it,” said Donald Trump a few days ago. Now he adds: “Anything less” than U.S. control of Greenland is...