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It was just one of several social media posts the president has made on Thursday morning broadly focused on personal grudges and not his Wednesday evening speech about the war. Trump took an apparent dig at the Supreme Court as a “kangaroo court!!!” and reposted articles dinging ally (and sometimes critic) Tucker Carlson and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).The administration has had shifting goalposts for the White House’s operation in Iran in the month since the attacks kicked off in February. On Wednesday night, he called Tehran an existential threat to “the free world” and urged U.S. allies to assist in…

It’s far from the first time the president has suggested that time frame. In fact, he’s offered up a two-week timeline when asked about his executive objectives countless times since returning to the White House last January — and even during his first term in office. Trump has leaned on the frequent refrain when discussing another major foreign policy objective of his second administration: ending the yearslong Russia-Ukraine war. Last spring, Trump spent months telling reporters he’d divine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s true intentions for the conflict “in about two weeks.””I’ll let you know in about two weeks,” he said…

The Commission reported the incident last Friday, having discovered it earlier in the week. The attack affected the Commission’s public website platform europa.eu based on Amazon Web Services. Data pertaining to at least 29 other EU entities may be affected, CERT-EU said. Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters earlier this week that the data in question was “potentially already in the public domain.” The technical analysis on Thursday confirmed reports that the notorious cybercriminal group ShinyHunters sold the data, which the hackers claimed included “data dumps of mail servers, confidential documents, contracts and much more sensitive material.” “On March 28, the…

Updated: 02/04/2026 – 11:30 GMT+2 Strong winds carried Sahara dust across the Mediterranean, turning skies over Crete a striking red and yellow. Scenes captured in Rethymno and Georgioupoli show the sun dimmed by sand, creating an eerie, almost Martian atmosphere. … More

The delegation toured the white tower that was to host the authority, visited the Flemish old town, and interrupted lessons at the European school, named after late Commission President Jacques Delors. At the end of the day, several guests acknowledged that being the first to declare was an advantage in itself. In reality, the behind-the-scenes lobbying had started far earlier, with France assuming the role of thought leader on how to cope with the exponential growth in e-commerce packages flooding into the EU from online retailers like China’s Shein and Temu. Paris sounded the alarm on unsafe products months before…

Updated: 02/04/2026 – 15:11 GMT+2 Massive explosions and thick plumes of smoke rose in Isfahan after a powerful wave of strikes hit central Iran on Wednesday. The attacks follow earlier US strikes in the same region that triggered a large fireball. Tehran retaliates with strikes on Gulf facilities and missile launches toward Israel. … More

The virtual meeting came days after the U.S. president called for NATO countries to “take the lead” and send warships into the Strait, whose retaliatory blockage by Iran has set off a global energy crisis. Trump doubled down Wednesday night, telling POLITICO: “They gotta get guts and go in.” A readout of the meeting, provided by the U.K. side, said participants agreed to turn up international heat “including through the UN, to send clear and co-ordinated messages to Iran to permit unimpeded transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz and to comprehensively reject the imposition of tolls on vessels which…

The heart of Holy Week has opened on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV celebrated the Chrism Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, warning against the abuse of power and the desire for domination. Before cardinals, bishops and hundreds of priests, the pontiff blessed the oils to be used across Rome during baptisms, confirmations and the anointing of the sick, while urging Catholics to choose service over force. Later that day, in Rome at the Archbasilica of St John Lateran, he marked the traditional Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, where he washed and kissed the feet of 12 priests. His…

Under Austrian law, all foreign military flights must apply for permission and declare their purpose before entering the country’s airspace. Requests tied to active conflicts are rejected, but routine transit or training missions are eligible for approval on a case-by-case basis. Bauer declined to say how many requests the U.S. had made, telling POLITICO he did not yet have the figures and that compiling them would take time. “The question is — why submit a request to a neutral state in the first place?” he added, hardening Vienna’s stance against Washington. Austria has been “permanently neutral” since 1955, when its…

Published on 02/04/2026 – 16:34 GMT+2 Iran has threatened “crushing” attacks on the United States and Israel, after US President Donald Trump vowed to bomb the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Ages.” Tehran will continue fighting until the US and Israel face “permanent regret and surrender,” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson of the Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, said in comments carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency. He said Iran would step up military operations and launch “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks on its enemies. Those comments come after a prime-time address at the White House in which Trump…