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Published on 30/03/2026 – 20:43 GMT+2•Updated 21:02 Peace talks with Iran are ongoing and progressing well and what Tehran says publicly differs from what it tells US officials in private meetings, the White House said on Monday. “Despite all of the public posturing you hear from the regime and false reporting, talks are continuing and going well. What is said publicly is, of course, much different than what’s being communicated to us privately,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing. She also said that President Donald Trump was interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for…
Other coastal states, including Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Belgium, have intercepted suspected shadow fleet vessels in the Baltic and North Seas. This has “in some cases, forced the Kremlin to adapt by reflagging shadow-fleet tankers … while occasionally deploying military escorts,” Charlie Edwards, a senior fellow for strategy and national security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote in a recent article. But high-profile boardings like that of the Boracay only stop a fraction of shadow fleet vessels cruising off European coasts. “Few European capitals can sustain a high-tempo posture for long, leaving random boardings looking potentially escalatory without being…
Although the three Ukrainian ports in Odesa region still experience Russian missile and drone strikes, they’re visited by about 200 cargo ships a month, said Andrii Klymenko, head of the monitoring group on the situation in the Black Sea region with the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies. “Ukraine managed to create a complex system of cargo ship protection from all kinds of threats on the sea route from the territorial waters of Romania to the Odesa region,” Klymenko said. “I call it a tunnel.” Ukraine hasn’t gone into details about its strategy, but the system includes defense from air…
Published on 30/03/2026 – 19:16 GMT+2 Slovenia’s newly elected parliament will come together on 10 April opening the way for tough coalition talks after the liberals’ razor-thin win this month, the EU country’s president said on Monday. “As soon as the official results are published, I will call the constitutive session of the new parliament on April 10,” Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar told journalists after her first consultations with the leaders of seven parties that entered parliament at the 22 March vote. She warned current geopolitical circumstances require swift coalition negotiations that will put in place a new government…
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that he and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa want 80% of Syrians in Germany to return to their homeland, as the former Islamist rebel leader visited Berlin. Europe’s top economy is home to the largest Syrian diaspora in the European Union at more than a million, many of whom arrived during the peak of the migrant influx in 2015-2016. After meeting al-Sharaa in Berlin, Merz said the two leaders were “working jointly towards more Syrians being able to return.” The German chancellor, who has made a tougher immigration policy a priority since taking office last…
Millions of Syrians fled the civil war that began in 2011, with many arriving in Germany during the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. By the end of 2024, around 1.23 million people of Syrian origin were registered in Germany. Merz made restricting migration a central campaign issue when he ran for office in 2025 and is now seeking cooperation from Damascus to facilitate the return of Syrians without a legal right to stay in Germany. The chancellor claims the initiative will help create the conditions for economic growth in Syria and support its reconstruction efforts. Opponents of the Syrian leader, however, criticize…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. “Rabbi, you speak about peace and coexistence, but look at what is happening around us. Is that even realistic?” a fellow synagogue member asked me in Istanbul this morning. And then, not long after: “Rabbi, how can you not condemn what is happening in the West Bank? And the language being used by people online, even those who call themselves rabbis?” a noted Muslim professor of Judaic studies remarked, quite harshly. I do not dismiss either. Both…
Published on 30/03/2026 – 17:02 GMT+2•Updated 17:14 French artificial intelligence (AI) company Mistral has raised $830 million (€750 million) to build a new data centre near Paris. The data centre, near Bruyères-le-Châtel, a commune south of Paris, is being built to run on over 13,000 NVIDIA chips. The chips will be used to train Mistral’s AI model and bring its compute power up to 44 megawatts (MW). That is roughly one and a half times more power than a conventional data centre, according to estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The company borrowed the money from seven banks for…
“The system worked pretty well, but when the WTO came into being the thinking was that everyone should sign up to pretty much everything [and] Special and Differential Treatment would be extended to developing countries,” he said. “This has, I would argue, worked much less well.” The plurilateral push allows countries to progress new deals, regardless of what blockers do. “They can change their regulations to align with the terms of the deal regardless of what India says,” he said. “In any event, what can the Indians do? Bring 66 WTO members to an impotent Dispute Settlement System? Good luck…
US President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to destroy Iran’s oil export hub of Kharg Island and other oil wells and power plants if it does not agree to a deal to end the war soon. Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that the United States is in “serious discussions” with “a more reasonable regime” in Tehran. “Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘open for business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing…