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Some 8,500 people are expected to attend — including 6,000 government officials, 2,000 journalists and 500 participants in a NATO Public Forum on the sidelines of the summit. The combined effect of airspace restrictions and the use of an entire runway for state flights will reduce the capacity of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport by 10 percent during the summit. Restrictions at sea will also apply in a zone out to more than 22 kilometers off the coast near The Hague, with limited access guaranteed to authorized fishermen and tour boats during the three days before the NATO summit, and a complete…

A 54-year old Irish woman who has lived legally in the United States for more than four decades has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the basis of a supposedly expunged 20-year old criminal conviction.Cliona Ward, who is originally from Dublin, has lived in the US since she was 12 years old and holds a green card. Ward was detained by ICE on 19 March after returning from a trip to Ireland to visit her father, who suffers from dementia.”She was handcuffed, shackled her and escorted her though the airport – like a hardened criminal. She was…

Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko traveled to Washington on Wednesday to ink the agreement. The terms of the deal include assurances that Ukraine will not need to pay back prior aid as debt and that the U.S. will contribute to a reconstruction fund. “Yes, we were planning to sign the deal today,” the senior Ukrainian official said. “The United States also agreed to contribute to the reconstruction fund. For example, if the U.S. gives Ukraine air defense systems, their money […] can be considered as a contribution to the fund.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously refused to sign two draft…

The UK’s only openly transgender judge is planning to taking the government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after the British Supreme Court ruled that existing equalities legislation refers to “sex” exclusively in biological terms. Dr Victoria McCloud came out as transgender in the 1990s and became a judge in 2006.She told Euronews that “as a trans woman with female genitalia who came out decades ago, I must now use mens’ toilets, men’s changing rooms, and be treated as a male. Life is now impossible for people like me”.Dr McCloud now works as a litigation strategist, and believes…

Updated: 30/04/2025 – 15:56 GMT+2Druze demonstrators blocked roads in northern Israel on Wednesday in response to violent clashes between Druze groups and armed factions in Jaramana, a city near Damascus in Syria. … More The violence erupted on Tuesday after an audio clip insulting the Prophet Muhammad circulated on social media. Although a Druze cleric was initially linked to the recording, he later denied involvement. Syria’s Interior Ministry confirmed it was investigating and said early findings suggest the cleric was not responsible.At least nine people were killed in the clashes, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.In response,…

“He used to say that he’d have a role to play [in the next presidential election],” the person said. “Now, he’s giving updates on where he is in his process, saying that he wants [to run] and is preparing himself.” Darmanin, who hails from French President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal Renaissance party, will go “a little bit further” in defining his plans in an upcoming interview on a popular YouTube talk show soon, the individual said.  The justice minister would be joining an already crowded field of centrist and right-wing politicians. Macron is constitutionally barred from contesting after serving two consecutive…

Austria will not implement its controversial ban on family reunification for migrants until it has been cleared by the courts, Chancellor Christian Stocker told Euronews.Vienna wants to protect its system from overloading, but critics objected that the plan was not compatible with European law.“We have legal opinions that show that we can implement this in accordance with the law. I know that it is controversial. I assume that this will also be reviewed by the courts. We will wait for the courts’ decision and use it as a guide”, Stocker told Euronews’ Sandor Zsiros on the fringes of the EPP…

Updated: 30/04/2025 – 14:39 GMT+2Sirens echoed across Israel on Wednesday as the country paused to remember victims of militant attacks. … More At the site of the Nova music festival, where more than 360 people were killed during the 7 October Hamas attacks, families and friends stood in silence during the two-minute siren. The 2023 festival near Kibbutz Re’im, close to the Gaza border, turned into a massacre when armed militants stormed the site. Many were killed trying to escape through fields, while others were kidnapped.Israel’s operations in Gaza, launched after the October attacks, have killed over 52,000 Palestinians, with…

In Italy, right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has cracked down on the practice as part of a broader campaign targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Surrogacy had become an increasingly popular option for the country’s same-sex couples, who are banned from adopting children, but in 2023 Meloni ordered city councils to only register biological parents on birth certificates. Last year her government made traveling abroad to have a baby through surrogacy a criminal act. Surrogacy has been prohibited in Spain since 2006. But for years, Spanish couples have successfully registered children born through surrogacy in other countries by providing foreign court rulings…

Krah, who was elected to the incoming German parliament this year, denied he had any knowledge about the secret service activities of his former aide. “I was obviously deceived,” he told POLITICO, adding he should be “more careful” about who he hires in future. The AfD currently has no information about what kind of intel the former aide collected on the party or its leadership, a spokesperson told POLITICO. According to a Spiegel report, investigators discovered documents in Chinese in Jian. G’s office containing detailed assessments of the role, status and position of top functionaries within the AfD, including its…