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Wer regiert die Welt – und was treibt sie an? In unserem Sommer-Spezial geht es um die mächtigsten und umstrittensten Politikerinnen und Politiker unserer Zeit. Wir zeigen, wie sie denken, entscheiden – und was das für uns bedeutet. Ein Politiker pro Tag, ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Macht. In der Machthaber-Serie: 04.08.2025 – Wladimir Putin05.08.2025 – Marine Le Pen06.08.2025 – Javier Milei07.08.2025 – Xi Jinping08.08.2025 – Giorgia Meloni11.08.2025 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan12.08.2025 – Benjamin Netanjahu13.08.2025 – Friedrich Mer14.08.2025 – Narendra Modi15.08.2025 – Mohammed bin Salman16.08.2025 – Ursula von der Leyen Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen…
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Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “asteroid” for the industry. Jul 31 18 mins read
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, following the U.S. president’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska.“On Monday, I will meet with President Trump in Washington, D.C., to discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war. I am grateful for the invitation,” said Zelenskyy in a post on X early Saturday.The announcement came shortly after Zelenskyy spoke with Trump on the phone, following the meeting in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday where no ceasefire was agreed.
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Putin, who addressed reporters first, pontificated about how Ukraine poses “fundamental threats” to Russian security, and discussed the need to “eliminate all the primary causes of the conflict.” The Kremlin has long pointed to a list of “root causes” of the war, including preventing Ukraine’s NATO membership and false claims that Nazis are running the Ukrainian government. Trump, in his remarks, said the talks were “extremely productive,” though he admitted “we didn’t get there” on a Ukraine deal with his Russian counterpart. Lipavský withheld criticism from the U.S. president, whom he praised for his attempts to halt the conflict and…
The protests began last November after a railway station awning collapsed in Novi Sad, killing 16 people, including two young children, and leaving several others gravely injured. What started in the form of brief vigils has since swelled into the largest protest movement in modern Serbian history, fueled by government denials that it was in any way to blame, despite accusations linking the tragedy to a state-run renovation project plagued by shoddy construction and oversight failures. “In all these months of protest, the prosecution only recently arrested a minister and another one claims to be on sick leave and can’t be arrested. The lack…
The highly anticipated and hastily arranged Alaska summit was never likely to mirror the map-redrawing summit of Yalta, where Joseph Stalin cajoled — some would say coerced — a physically ill and mentally exhausted Franklin Roosevelt and a grumbling Winston Churchill to carve up Europe between Western and Soviet spheres. Nor was it going to be a breakthrough summit like Reykjavik, where in 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev laid the groundwork for future nuclear arms control, adding to the thawing of the Cold War. Gorbachev, of course, was trying to manage a graceful dissolution of the Soviet Union; Putin…
“Unfortunately, after years-long negotiation, we are witnessing that some of the wrong ideas or issues totally beyond our mandate, such as chemicals of concern, are back again into the papers,” countered Iran’s Massoud Rezvanian Rahaghi at the closing plenary. Countries are insisting on “unrealistic elements,” he argued, and employing “unfair and restricting tactics to exclude a large number of parties in very undemocratic ways.” Changing the game The election of U.S. President Donald Trump and his “drill-baby-drill” ethos has brought the U.S. in line with the likes of Iran and Saudi Arabia — giving them a powerful player in their corner. The…
Trump, in a different post, said he had had “a wonderful talk” with “the highly respected” Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin. “Our conversation was a very good one. We discussed many topics, including President Putin’s visit to Alaska.” The high-stakes summit — the first in-person meeting between an American president and Putin since the latter launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is meant to lay the ground for a ceasefire. Zelenskyy and European leaders were not invited to the meeting. “The key thing is that this meeting should open up a real path…