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Washington works with Lithuanian forces to recover a 70-tonne armoured vehicle from a swamp as four US Army soldiers remain missing. US and Lithuanian forces continued to drain a swampy area in Lithuania in an ongoing effort to recover four American Army soldiers who went missing five days ago.The soldiers’ armoured vehicle was discovered submerged in approximately five metres of water and so far teams have been unable to get inside or pull it out.US Army Europe and Africa said on Friday that cranes, a large-capacity pump and more than 30 tonnes of gravel have been brought in to help…

At its peak, the Lend-Lease programs assisted 38 countries with supplies and equipment to the tune of around $50 billion — the equivalent of nearly $700 billion today when accounting for inflation. Britain received the lion’s share, and eventually only about $8 billion was ever actually repaid, with most of that coming from the U.K. and France. Moreover, while intact equipment was meant to be returned under the deal’s terms, in reality there was little of that. Instead, what remained was sold to the allies at discount prices. No price gouging there. In addition to help defeating Nazi Germany, Benito…

Jens-Frederik Nielsen rebuts U.S. president’s comments that the U.S. will ‘get’ Greenland. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech Share

PARIS — European government officials and business representatives have poured scorn on a request from the United States State Department for companies to drop diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures. Ministers from France and Belgium pushed back strongly on the effort by the Trump administration to spread its anti-DEI policies, which have taken aim at universities, companies, government contractors and security services worldwide. “It is out of the question that we will prevent our business from promoting additional social progress [and] social rights,” said French Minister for Gender Equality Aurore Bergé in an interview with BFMTV Sunday. “Thankfully, a lot of…

“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States. There will be a 25 percent tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil,” Trump said. The European Union has imposed an embargo on seaborne shipments of Russian oil in the wake of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but a number of EU member countries, including Hungary and Slovakia, continue to buy it via pipeline. Meanwhile, other NATO allies like Turkey, as well as countries like China and India, have stepped up their purchases of crude from Russia.…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke in response to a letter sent to the country’s Supreme Leader by Donald Trump earlier this month. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic is ruling out direct negotiations with the US on its nuclear programme.”We don’t avoid talks,” Pezeshkian said in televised remarks during a cabinet meeting. “It’s the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far. They must prove that they can build trust.”Pezeshkian was speaking in response to a letter sent by US President Donald Trump to Tehran on 12 March, the exact contents of…

Russia launched 111 drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, according to authorities. Ukrainian authorities have reported that a wave of Russian overnight drone strikes from Saturday into Sunday has killed two people in the eastern city of Kharkiv and wounded 35 others.Russia launched a total of 111 drones and decoy drones over Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 65 of the drones, while 35 went off radar likely due to electronic jamming.The two victims in Kharkiv, which has been subject to almost daily attacks, were a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, said Kharkiv’s regional governor,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Hungary on April 2 despite an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), his office reportedly said Sunday. He is expected to meet with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán, as well as other high-level Hungarian officials before going back to Israel on April 6. Netanyahu is targeted by an ICC arrest warrant charging him with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. According to Le Monde, Hungary considers it doesn’t have to abide by ICC decisions. The war in Gaza was triggered by the attack by Hamas…

On Friday, Greenland’s government announced a deal for a coalition between Greenland’s Democrats and other parties. Trump’s obsession with the strategic, mineral-rich island has grown stronger in the past weeks. He made the issue a top national security priority, and told journalists on Friday that “we have to have” the territory to secure the U.S.’s position in the Arctic. The U.S. president’s comments come after a week of diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Denmark, and on the heels of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Greenland. Speaking from the U.S.’s Pituffik Space Base on Greenland’s northeastern coast on Friday,…

Medin’s arrest also comes on the heels of the deportation of Mark Lowen, a correspondent for the BBC, as well as the imprisonment of a dozen Turkish journalists covering the demonstrations. However, the Turkish government said the warrant targeting the Swedish reporter has “nothing to do with journalistic activities.” It is about Medin’s participation in a demonstration by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Stockholm back in 2023. The PKK is labeled a terrorist group in a lot of European countries, including Sweden. The presence of PKK members in Sweden is at the heart of the complicated relationship between Turkey…