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Zu Gast beim POLITICO-Spaziergang: AfD-Co-Parteichef Tino Chrupalla. Im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski geht es um die russischen Angriffe auf die Ukraine und warum das Land aus seiner Sicht für einen Frieden Gebiete abtreten sollte. Chrupalla erklärt, warum die EU für ihn ein „übergriffiges Monstrum“ ist , das reformiert oder verlassen werden müsse , wie er auf den Vorwurf reagiert, die AfD würde einen „Kulturkampf“ betreiben , und warum er an der Statistik zu rechtsextremen Übergriffen in Deutschland zweifelt. Außerdem geht es um die Zusammenarbeit mit Alice Weidel und ob er manchmal Zweifel an der eigenen Linie hat. Das Berlin Playbook…

Despite being banned, the International Movement of Satanists doesn’t actually exist, although if it did, its address would be 666 Devil’s Alley, Hell, Norway (yes, there is a village called Hell in Norway). What the Russian judges are banning is the idea of devil worship, which is something the Russian Orthodox Church and conservative lawmakers have called for years to be outlawed. In April, Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, hosted a roundtable on combating Satanism and other beliefs considered a threat to the country — although calling it a roundtable gives off strong séance vibes, which may not have been…

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The assertion prompted a strong denial from the U.N., whose spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, placed blame for failures squarely at Israel’s feet. “Kerem Shalom [a crossing point for humanitarian aid into Gaza] is not a McDonald’s drive through where we just pull up and pick up what we’ve ordered, right?” Dujarric told a press briefing in New York. “There are tremendous bureaucratic impediments. There are tremendous security impediments. And, frankly, I think there’s a lack of willingness to allow us to do our work.” Sa’ar’s comments — which came during the first visit to Ukraine by a top Israeli official since…

The Brussels-baiting government of illiberal Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán passed legislation in March prohibiting public assemblies that “promote or display” the LGBTQ+ community, under the pretext of protecting children, and refused to issue police permits that would allow the June 28 Budapest Pride event to go ahead as planned.  But Karácsony subsequently found a legal loophole — by organizing the event as ​​a municipal undertaking, he freed organizers from the need to obtain police permission. This year’s Budapest Pride ultimately became the largest-ever event of its kind, drawing an estimated 200,000 people.  While the police initially promised not to…

The decision comes shortly after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would convene an “emergency call” with the country’s E3 partners — France, Germany and Italy — on Friday to “discuss what we can do urgently to stop the killing and get people the food they desperately need.” Eleven out of 27 EU member countries have already recognized Palestinian statehood, including Romania, Sweden, Ireland and Bulgaria. The U.N. has warned that Israel is blocking sufficient aid from reaching Gaza, where a growing number of starvation-related deaths have been reported. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are…

On stage, Hogan raged about the moment “when they took a shot at my hero” (this was shortly after the July 13, 2024 attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania) and asked the baying crowd: “What are you gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you, brother?” Not long after his RNC appearance, Hogan suggested that President-elect Trump might give him a role in his administration. Speaking to Fox News, Hogan said Trump had told him at an event in New York: “You know something, you’d be great to run the President’s…

PARIS — Il a entre 30 et 50 ans, il est cadre, et il est persuadé de payer pour tout le monde. Depuis le mois de juin, “Nicolas”, personnage fictif représentant une part des Français qui se dit assommée par l’impôt, a envahi les réseaux sociaux. L’expression “C’est Nicolas qui paie” s’est multipliée en ligne pour dénoncer les dépenses de l’Etat ou des collectivités, jugées excessives. Son objectif supposé : mettre l’Etat à la diète, notamment en ce qui concerne les dépenses sociales. La tendance est telle qu’elle a poussé l’exécutif à s’intéresser aux inquiétudes de “Nicolas” — sans pour…

The bill still has to be passed by the parliament, where, some activists warn, it risks being stalled by Zelenskyy’s own MPs. The course reversal comes after Ukrainians poured onto the streets for the first anti-government protests since the beginning of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, and European partners — similarly for the first time since 2022 — decried Kyiv’s actions.  European officials warned that kneecapping anti-corruption agencies could cost Ukraine its financial aid and bid to join the European Union. Earlier on Thursday, Zelenskyy was still insisting that anti-corruption agencies were inefficient and needed protection from “Russian influence” — citing…

“We hope that following this deal, the U.K. government will commit to safeguarding farmers’ rights in all future trade agreements, as farmer seed systems are vital for smallholder farmers in India and in many other countries across the world,” said Hannah Conway, trade and agriculture policy adviser at Transform Trade. Drugmakers Under the deal, Indian generic medicines and medical devices can be exported duty free to the U.K., in a move welcomed by the country’s officials. Last year the U.K. imported medicinal and pharmaceutical products worth around £667.4 million from India. “Given the U.K.’s shift away from reliance on Chinese…