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“The EU citizens there are not necessarily people member states will be rushing to welcome back in a disorganized manner,” said one of the officials. The camps, run by U.S. Kurdish allies in Syria, relied primarily on international aid, including hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. Following President Donald Trump’s move to attempt to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, officials in Brussels were concerned this could trigger both a humanitarian and security crisis in Syria unless the funding gaps are plugged. The two camps house primarily women and children, and none of the people in…

There was predictable anger from the left of the party on display in the House of Commons, too. MP Clive Lewis warned Kendall that his constituents, friends and family were “very angry” about the changes to come — and warned this is not the kind of action a Labour government should be taking. Scottish Labour MP Brian Leishman said: “Reducing welfare by £5 billion is the wrong moral decision.  This is not what the Labour Party should ever do.” More worrying for Starmer was the intervention from Debbie Abrahams, chair of parliament’s work and pensions committee, who told MPs there…

It was the least he could get away with. After 90 minutes on the phone to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin gave the smallest possible concession to easing Russia’s three-year onslaught against Ukraine with a promise to swap some prisoners and stop attacking power plants and other “infrastructure” for 30 days.  An hour after the call, Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine came under Russian attack again. Drone and missile bombardments will continue to rain down on residential buildings across the country, while the bloody front line in the East will remain a killing zone. Putin stuck fast to what seemed…

Offering the diplomatic bare minimum, the Russian leader said he would hold off striking at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days — a self-serving concession as that will save Russia’s energy system from being hit by the Ukrainians, who have just dramatically increased the range of their powerful Neptune subsonic cruise missiles from 200 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers. All in all, Trump and his motley crew of special envoys, family members and presidential pals seem keener to converge with Russia on broader geopolitical issues than really press him hard on Ukraine. The Kremlin’s read-out from the call was long on…

Baerbock could take over the role, not to be confused with that of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in early June for a one-year term, as internal U.N. agreements will see the position held by the “Western Europeans and others” group, including Germany, in the upcoming General Assembly session.  The position has significantly less external impact than the top job, Spiegel noted, as the president’s main task is to represent the U.N. member countries as a whole and deliver one of the first speeches at the annual meeting of heads of state and government. Baerbock, one of the top figures in…

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned “the resumption of the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip,” saying it threatens regional stability. Egypt, which also played a key role in brokering the ceasefire, has also condemned the wave of heavy strikes Israel launched. Israelis gathered in protest outside government buildings in Jerusalem after the military killed over 400 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – its heaviest assault in the region since a tentative ceasefire took hold in January.  Families of hostages held by Hamas called on supporters to protest with them outside the Israeli parliament, saying the resumption of fighting in…

BRUSSELS — Four people have been charged on counts of corruption and criminal organization as part of an alleged cash-for-influence campaign by Chinese technology giant Huawei. The Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday said that the four individuals, who were not named, would remain in detention with a fifth person charged with money laundering and released under conditions, according to a statement.  New searches also took place at the offices of the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday,  some of whose premises had already been sealed following earlier raids in Strasbourg on Mar. 13.

“Because of their size, whales are able to do things that no other animal does.” Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their urine – a process scientists have dubbed ‘the great whale pee funnel’.These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish, especially in areas where nitrogen is otherwise in limited supply. In some places, like Hawaii, the input…

“The so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag,” the Global Times said. “When it comes to China-related reporting, VOA has an appalling track record,” it said, adding that “almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA’s fingerprints all over it.” VOA has reported on human rights abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which are well-documented, and debunked China’s disinformation efforts in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. A columnist for the regime-friendly Beijing Daily said VOA “has been notorious for spreading lies” and that the “world is waking up.” ‘Undoubtedly caused us…

In nominal terms, Eastern and Southeastern Europe experienced the most significant increases in minimum wages between 2015 and 2025. Euronews Business examines how minimum wages have changed across Europe over the past decade. An adequate minimum wage is crucial for ensuring a decent standard of living for workers. But how have minimum wages changed in Europe from 2015 to 2025? And, over the last decade, have wage disparities been widening or narrowing?As of January 2025, gross monthly minimum wages in the EU ranged from €551 in Bulgaria to €2,638 in Luxembourg, according to Eurostat. When including EU candidate countries with…