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“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,” Glucksmann added, according to local media. The French MEPs comments are likely in reference to a decision by Washington to pause aid to Ukraine, which it had been helping to fight off a Russian invasion. While aid is now flowing to Kyiv once again, U.S. President Donald Trump’s perceived softness on Russia, his long-documented admiration for President Vladimir Putin and other strongman leaders, and his public humiliation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Voldymyr Zelenskyy have caused alarm throughout Europe.…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have launched 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones on the US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in a retaliatory attack. A Houthi military spokesman said that they will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea. The Houthis announced that they launched 18 ballistic and cruise missiles, along with a drone, targeting the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea on Sunday. Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated that the attack was a response to…
In response, the European Commission on Wednesday said it would reimpose tariffs on iconic American products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, jeans and bourbon. Trump’s response arrived quickly as, the following day, he threatened to slap a 200 percent tariff on all “wines, champagne and alcoholic products” from France and other EU countries. Bayrou suggested that the Commission was wrong in choosing the products on its retaliation list. The European Commission “reused a very old list without re-reading it, as it should have done,” Bayrou said. His comments seem to imply that Trump threatened to hit the EU’s alcohol sector because Brussels…
In 2023, Macron passed a controversial pensions reform that raised the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 and was aimed at making France’s pensions system economically sustainable. The reform has been strongly opposed by both left-wing and right-wing opposition groups. In a bid to convince left-wing lawmakers not to bring down his government, Bayrou earlier this year promised to review the controversial reform, and didn’t rule out changing the retirement age. “It is my conviction that we can seek a new reform path, without totems or taboos, even on the age of retirement,” Bayrou said back in January. His…
“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale. That’s the way to increase the rate of production,” he said. Macron’s comments come as European NATO members have become even more dependent on U.S. weapons than ever before. This month, the Netherlands and Belgium confirmed they would still buy American-made F-35 fighter jets, while Portugal is wobbling about replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of “the recent position of the United States, in the context of NATO.” Macron said he has asked French…
“At this moment, the most important thing is to determine all the facts and what happened,” Toskovski said, expressing condolences to the families of the victims, who were mainly young people. Family members gathered in front of hospitals and Kocani’s city offices begging authorities for more information. Some 1,500 people attended the performance by ADN, a well-known hip-hop duo in North Macedonia. Following the tragedy, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski cancelled a trip to Montenegro where he was to attend a European People’s Party meeting.
Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has…
Trump on Friday signed an executive order to reduce to the minimum the functions of several agencies, including the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM,) which oversees media including VOA, RFE/RL, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. “The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years. Handing our adversaries a win would make them stronger and America weaker,” RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus said on Saturday. Radio Free Asia is expected to start furloughing some of its staff in the…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a call on Saturday as Washington pushes for a ceasefire in Ukraine. The two “discussed next steps to follow up on recent meetings in Saudi Arabia and agreed to continue working towards restoring communication between the United States and Russia,” according to a U.S. readout of the call. Last week, Ukraine and the U.S. agreed on a proposal for an immediate ceasefire in the war, which Russian President Vladimir Putin launched three years with his full-scale invasion of the country. The U.S.-Ukraine agreement came during a meeting in Jeddah,…
US President Donald Trump says he is ready to use “overwhelming lethal force” until Iranian-backed Houthi rebels cease their attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor. US President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until Iranian-backed Houthi rebels stop attacking ships in a vital maritime corridor. Nine civilians were killed, according to the Houthis.In a social media post, Trump said, “Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to…