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“A coastguard rescue helicopter from Humberside was called, alongside lifeboats … an HM Coastguard fixed-wing aircraft, and nearby vessels with firefighting capability. The incident remains ongoing.” Two sources who spoke to the BBC reported that the oil tanker was on fire. These reports could not immediately be verified. Britain’s Yorkshire coast is home to a large number of oil terminals, processing shipments of foreign crude destined to be refined into petrol and other fuels. In 1989, a collision between two oil tankers just off the coast of Hull saw both vessels catch fire and almost 100,000 metric tons of crude…

“If these statements come again from Vance and Musk or whoever, people will feel that their grievances are further confirmed by the Trump administration,” said Oana Popescu-Zamfir, director of GlobalFocus Center, a foreign policy and security think tank in Bucharest. “This is not just Russian interference, it’s double interference from Russia and from Washington.” NATO base The new alignment between the Kremlin and the White House is making heads spin in Bucharest. During the Cold War, Romania was one of the most pro-Western European countries under communist rule, maintaining links with the U.S. while remaining wary of Moscow.  Most of…

Europeans are taking steps to boost their own industries, said Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher with SIPRI, “but the transatlantic arms-supply relationship has deep roots. Imports from the USA have risen and European NATO states have almost 500 combat aircraft and many other weapons still on order from the USA.” The report comes as European countries are massively rearming, amid concerns that the administration of President Donald Trump is realigning with Russia and that America’s decades-long security guarantees to Europe are no longer reliable. This has led to calls in European countries to limit reliance on U.S. weapons — for example,…

It added: “The Federal Security Service’s counter-intelligence operations exposed the unreported intelligence presence of the United Kingdom under the cover of the country’s embassy in Moscow.” The Kremlin said a man, 34, and woman, 32, “will be stripped of their accreditation and must leave Russia within two weeks.” A spokesperson for the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: “This is not the first time that Russia has made malicious and baseless accusations against our staff.” The explusion comes after three U.K.-based Bulgarians were found guilty Friday of being part of a Russian spy ring, and amid high tensions between…

Updated: 10/03/2025 – 10:02 GMT+1Chaos broke out in Romania’s capital on Sunday as supporters of Calin Georgescu protested the electoral body’s decision to reject his candidacy in the presidential election rerun. … More Protests erupted in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Sunday after the electoral body rejected ultranationalist Calin Georgescu’s candidacy for the country’s presidential election rerun.Georgescu, 62, won last year’s first round before the election was annulled over alleged Russian interference. The rejection of his bid sparked outrage, with hundreds of supporters gathering outside the Central Election Bureau’s headquarters, chanting, throwing objects, and setting a bush on fire.The first round…

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy have their guide to the day ahead in British politics. With Volodymyr Zelenskyy heading to Saudi Arabia to join US-sponsored peace talks in Saudi Arabia, Sam and Anne assess the UK’s response to any concessions Ukraine might be made to make to Russia. And with Mark Carney waiting in the wings to take over from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada, how will his premiership differ and how will he respond to Trump’s threat of tariffs? Domestically, Labour’s wish for economic growth is well known, but do their planning…

Some tabloids have stoked fears that the EU will soon ban coffee after the European Commission allegedly labelled caffeine dangerous for human consumption. News reports and viral social posts are claiming that the EU has labelled coffee as dangerous for humans.A headline from opinion-orientated news channel GB News accuses “meddling Brussels bureaucrats” of declaring coffee unsafe, while The Telegraph has led with the line that the EU has labelled coffee as dangerous because caffeine is “harmful to humans if swallowed”, stoking fears of a coffee-ban around the bloc.Yet another article from NDTV World says that the EU has banned caffeine…

Airbus announced in December that it would cut around 2,000 jobs in its Defence and Space division, after its satellite production came under pressure from U.S. competition. “If we are not able to scale up in sectors like space or defense,  we will remain marginal and we will not have the means to invest in the constellations or new technologies at the necessary height,” said Faury. It’s not Europe’s only attempt to compete with Starlink. “The space industry is evolving rapidly, with private entities like SpaceX’s Starlink dominating Low Earth Orbit satellite deployments,” said Zsuzsanna Benyo. | Mario Tama/Getty Images…

Harijs Rokpelnis, a top official in the Greens and Farmer’s Union, a member of Latvia’s ruling coalition, said the urgency of the moment requires that politicians ignore the ECB’s advice, however sound it may be. “Looking from the purely technocratic view of economics, they have a point,” he acknowledged, while pushing for seizure nonetheless. The ECB, in turn, can maintain its technocratic position to save face, and both sides can agree to disagree, he added. Certain central bankers may privately agree with seizing the assets, said two other people, and are more than happy for politicians to go along with…

– Anstehende Koalitionsverhandlungen: Wie sehr können die Grünen wirklich mitreden, deren Stimmen es für das Sondervermögen braucht? Würden sie das Milliardenpaket tatsächlich scheitern lassen? Eine Analyse von Gordon Repinski.– Migration, Zurückweisungen, Asylwende: Rasmus Buchsteiner erklärt, wo sowohl CDU als auch SPD in den Sondierungen zurückgesteckt haben und wieso die große Wende wohl vorerst ausbleibt.– Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: SPD-Generalsekretär Matthias Miersch über die Koalitionsverhandlungen, den Widerstand der Jusos und die Frage: Steht die neue Regierung bis Ostern – oder droht doch noch das Scheitern?– Krawall auf dem Platz, aber Einigkeit auf der Tribüne: Wie Hannovers und Braunschweigs Oberbürgermeister gemeinsam Harmonie demonstrieren.  Das…