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In an apparent U-turn, President Donald Trump says the US will send an extra 5,000 troops to Poland, a week after the Pentagon cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 troops to the country. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed the move, adding Europe's strategy of becoming less reliant on the US "will continue". Trump said the decision was based on the...

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will deploy an extra 5,000 troops to Poland, despite the fact that only one week ago the Pentagon scrapped plans to send 4,000 troops there. Important caveat: in a post on Truth Social, Trump said the move reflected the close relationship between the US and Polish President Karol Nawrocki, whom he...

  Who Max Korzh?    Max Korzh sold out tickets for his show sold out in just five days, a record for a solo artist in a stadium in Bucharest. Tens of thousands have attended his concerts in Warsaw, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow and Odessa. After a longe break, the Belorusian started a new tour, holding with sold-out concerts in stadiums in Prague, Riga, Tallinn,...

Friedrich Merz is pushing for Ukraine to be inside inside the EU without 'further delays' German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on EU leaders to discuss a new additional membership status for Ukraine to maintain momentum until it's a full members of the bloc. Ukraine has been a candidate country since 2022, but further progress on EU accession has been blocked...

Sixteen searches were carried out in France, Germany, Italy and Poland in an investigation into organized VAT fraud involving the trade of small electronic goods. It is believed that three suspects joined a criminal organization directly linked to the ring leaders behind EPPO’s Goliath and Midas investigations. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg, northern Germany which called for the...

NVIDIA has once again delivered a strong earnings report, beating expectations on both revenue and profit while guiding well above Wall Street forecasts. Despite this, the muted share price reaction highlights how elevated investors’ expectations have become. Meanwhile, concerns about how AI is changing society continue to grow, especially among the youngest generation entering an evolving labor market, writes eToro...

Sebastian Ghiță, a controversial Romanian businessman and former politician, has appeared in a report on  Kremlin influence operations Romania and Moldova, a press investigation shows. The Armenian FIP.am portal (in Armenian and English) published its report on May 16 based on a leak of communications from the Russian presidential administration. The report revealed information campaigns already implemented or planned by the...

Romanian authorities have placed American rapper Wiz Khalifa on the country’s wanted persons list after he failed to report to serve a prison sentence in a drug possession case. On the Romanian Police website, the American artist appears under his legal name, Thomaz Cameron Jibril. The listing states that the warrant concerns the enforcement of a prison sentence linked to...

The United States has filed criminal charges against former communist Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 destruction of two civilian aircraft near the Florida Straits, accusing him of conspiring to murder American citizens. The indictment names Castro alongside five additional individuals in connection with the shooting down of planes operated by the Cuban-American humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue....

Corruption in Trumpland has reached a level that would astound the most practiced of cynics - and make Edith Wharton blush Early in Trump’s first presidential transition, there was quaint concern about conflicts of interest. More precisely, that this sheyster might try to profiteer off the presidency. But there remained a belief that the rules and norms of a developed...