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By Tomasz Lezon with Reuters, PAP Published on 22/05/2026 – 7:35 GMT+2•Updated 7:36 US President Donald Trump has announced he will send an additional 5,000 American troops to Poland. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to Endorse, and our relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland.” The announcement came just two days after US Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters that the planned deployment of American forces to the Eastern…
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday again raised the spectre of US military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro. Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.” “Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years, doing something,” Trump told reporters when asked about Cuba in the Oval Office. “And, it looks like I’ll be the one…
The share of income going to the richest 0.1% varies widely across Europe. In some countries, it is above 6%, while the European average is 4.5%. Experts say tax systems and wage inequality are key factors behind these differences. So which countries give the largest share of income to this group — roughly one in every 1,000 people? Data from the World Inequality Database shows the income share of this ultra-rich group ranges from 1.6% in the Netherlands to 10.2% in Georgia across 35 countries, including EU members, candidates, EFTA members, and the UK. The figures reflect 2024 or the…
Buckethead and Binface are features of British elections, part of a long tradition of comedy characters who try to get a seat in parliament or, at the very least, embarrass mainstream candidates. Other famous, if ludicrous, candidates from over the years include Screaming Lord Sutch, Mr Fishfinger and Boris Johnson. Nigel Farage, who failed to get elected seven times before finally making it to parliament, once lost to independent candidate John Stevens, a former MEP who was joined on the campaign trail by someone dressed as a dolphin. Asked to comment, the dolphin told Declassified, “click, click, click, click, click.”…
Published on 22/05/2026 – 6:11 GMT+2•Updated 6:15 The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that the modernisation of its commercial agreement with Mexico will eliminate trade barriers as the world’s economies lean towards protectionism. Mexico and the EU will sign the update to the agreement on Friday. The signing takes place as the Mexican government negotiates the revisions to the USMCA free trade agreement with its largest trade partner the United States as well as Canada. “This agreement will remove the remaining barriers to trade and investment, and these include strategic sectors such as…
Ein Leak sorgt für Wirbel in Berlin. Die Rentenkommission diskutiert hinter verschlossenen Türen angeblich über ein Stufenmodell, das das Renteneintrittsalter bis in die 2060er Jahre schrittweise auf 70 Jahre anheben und das Rentenniveau absenken soll. Während die Koalitionäre hektisch zurückrudern, wird klar: Die Demografie und die stagnierende Wirtschaft zwingen Schwarz-Rot zu radikalen Maßnahmen. Gordon Repinski analysiert, warum der 30. Juni zum Schicksalstag für die alternde Gesellschaft und die Zukunft der Koalition wird. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview fordert der hessische Ministerpräsident Boris Rhein (CDU) eine völlig neue Priorisierung vom Kanzleramt. Rhein spricht sich für eine differenzierte Betrachtung des Rentenalters aus , fordert harte…
McSweeney, who was credited with meticulously devising Labour’s election success in 2024, is convinced that AI has not yet been used to the full extent of its capability to manipulate elections, and that any polls in Ukraine following a ceasefire will be a lightning rod for malign influence, according to people familiar with his thinking. His allies say he is conscious of the potential for the use of AI to ramp up in British elections, where public trust in institutions is already low and Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is on the march. The ex-Downing Street aide is expected to appear…
Published on 21/05/2026 – 6:28 GMT+2 The United States on Wednesday indicted Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro on murder charges, fuelling speculation that President Donald Trump will try to topple the communist state. The charges against the former president – who at 94 years old remains influential in Cuban politics – stem from the deadly 1996 downing of two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots. Castro is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, the late iconic US nemesis who led Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution. “We expect that he will show up here by his own will or by another way…
BRUSSELS — Influencers attending high-level EU meetings of ministers and leaders will not be replacing journalists, a content creator working with the Council of the EU said. Pietro Valetto, a 27-year-old influencer, has been invited to the Council next week for what was dubbed an “exclusive experience” in which creators will get to see behind the scenes at the EU institution. From July, influencers will also be invited to EU leaders’ summits in Brussels as well as certain ministerial meetings, as POLITICO reported earlier this month. That announcement prompted pushback from journalists who cover these summits and meetings. But Valetto…
Rescue workers searched through collapsed buildings on Wednesday in the southern villages of Deir Qanoun al Nahr and Al-Maashouq, a day after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 19 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Bulldozers cleared concrete and twisted metal while emergency teams looked for bodies beneath the rubble in Tyre province. Officials said four women and three children were among the dead, while several others were injured. In Deir Qanoun al Nahr, a strike destroyed a residential house and damaged nearby vehicles, leaving personal belongings scattered across the debris. Images from Al-Maashouq also showed heavy destruction inside a mosque…