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By Serge Duchêne Published on 19/04/2026 – 20:25 GMT+2 Ukraine’s interior minister announced on Sunday that two police officers had been suspended after a video was posted online showing them fleeing the scene of the shooting in Kyiv, which left six people dead. An armed man opened fire and took hostages in a supermarket in a residential district of the Ukrainian capital on Saturday, before being shot dead during an attempt to arrest him. In footage broadcast by Ukrainian media, a male and a female officer in uniform and yellow vests can be seen standing next to a person lying on…
“They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.,” he continued. “IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!”International law scholars have previously warned that strikes to civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime, though Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday appeared to defend the president’s threats. “Look, the president’s looking for maximum leverage, maximum negotiation, maximum leverage in these negotiations,” Wright told CNN’s “State of…
By Marina Stoimenova from Sofia Published on 19/04/2026 – 20:05 GMT+2 The early elections held in Bulgaria have left a result with a strong political impact in Europe. Former President Rumen Radev is emerging as the winner after prevailing in exit polls. Radev, a former fighter pilot, stepped down as Bulgaria’s president in January. He’s been considered friendly to Russia His coalition would have achieved around 37% of the votes, far ahead of the conservative GERB party, led by Boiko Borissov, which would remain at around 16%. The turnout of people voting is high, over 45%.
Rumen Radev, a Russia-aligned former president, looks on course to win Bulgaria’s election on Sunday, but will need to team up with other parties to form a governing majority. Radev’s newly created Progressive Bulgaria movement was on track to secure just under 40 percent of the vote, according to exit polls broadcast on television. The polling agency Market Links predicted his party would win 38.9 percent, while Alpha Research put him on 37.5 percent. That meant he had more than twice the support of any other party. This article is being updated.
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Angola, an oil- and mineral-rich country in south-west Africa, marked the third leg of his tour of four African nations. On Saturday, after meeting with Angolan President João Lourenço, the Pope delivered his first address to Angola’s governing authorities, repeatedly referring to the country’s turbulent history, scarred by colonial plunder and civil war. “I wish to meet you in a spirit of peace and to affirm that your people possess treasures that can neither be bought nor stolen,” the Holy Father warned. “You know well that, all too often, people have looked – and continue…
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“Once oil deliveries are restored, we will no longer stand in the way of approving the loan,” Orbán wrote on X Sunday afternoon. Approving the financial lifeline to Kyiv could be among his last actions as Hungarian prime minister — a surprising turnaround for a leader who has weaponized anti-Ukraine sentiment for years. Orbán is set to step down in mid-May after losing last Sunday’s election to opposition leader Péter Magyar. The Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil through Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia has been at the center of a diplomatic quagmire between the EU and Hungary. In February, Orbán vetoed the…
“Republicans have the best candidates that they’ve had in a long time but are facing serious headwinds,” said New Hampshire GOP strategist Mike Dennehy.“I wouldn’t say I feel warm and fuzzy about things right now,” said a Georgia Republican operative, granted anonymity to speak about party strategy, like others in this story.The Senate wasn’t initially expected to be a concern for Republicans.Even as typical midterm dynamics often dog the party in power, this year’s map strongly favored Republicans. Democrats need to hold onto all their seats — including defending Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia and an open seat in Michigan,…
Sánchez has emerged as one of Israel’s most vocal critics in the EU. He accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing genocide in Gaza and denounced the joint U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran as an “immense error.” Critics claim that Israel’s continued strikes against Lebanon are undermining a peace settlement in the broader region. During his speech in Andalusia, Sánchez called for an immediate end to the war in the Middle East that has led to a surge in global oil prices and mass displacement across the region. The foreign ministers of Spain, Ireland and Slovenia accused Israel of breaching…
Western leaders have urged the Iranian regime to reopen the waterway, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas transits. Prolonged closure is driving up global oil prices and damaging economic growth prospects across the EU. Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, wrote on X that “under international law, transit through waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge.” But the Iranian regime poured scorn on Kallas’ assertion. “Oh, that ‘international law’?! The one that the EU dusts off to lecture others while quietly green-lighting a U.S.-Israeli war of aggression…