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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the Iran war could be over “very soon” but left the possibility of an escalation in fighting open if global oil supplies are disrupted by Iran, after global energy prices soared following Tehran’s appointment of a new hardline supreme leader. Oil prices briefly shot to their highest level since 2022 a day after Iran selected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as Iran’s supreme leader. Investors saw it as a signal that Iran was digging in 10 days into the war launched by the United States and Israel. But prices…
In Baden-Württemberg, where the AfD finished a strong third, Merz’s conservatives came up shy in their effort to recapture power in a state that was long a conservative power base, while the SPD, Germany’s oldest political party, suffered its worst election performance since World War II, coming in with a humiliating 5.5 percent. The election “was one of the darkest days I could imagine,” said Andreas Stoch, the SPD’s lead candidate in Baden-Württemberg. “To be honest, I never could have imagined standing in front of the press to announce a single-digit election result for the SPD.” As political pressure rises,…
One government minister who is bucking his own party’s candidate to support Dati said her ability to communicate in a direct, forceful manner is “extraordinary” and “allows her to transcend traditional political divides.” Geoffroy Boulard, the incumbent conservative mayor of Paris’ upscale 17th arrondissement, praised Dati as a “highly recognizable candidate who, through her personality and political background, is making our message heard in less well-off districts where we didn’t perform the last two times.” Tough math The passage to the second round, however, puts Dati in a tough spot. If current polls hold steady, five candidates will net 10 percent of the…
The campaign has targeted government personnel as well as individuals of interest to the Russian government, including journalists, the Dutch authorities said. They also emphasized that individual accounts have been compromised, not the messaging apps as a whole. Signal is used widely by public officials as a secure and independent communications channel, and has been the recommended application for EU officials to use for external comms since 2020. “Despite their end-to-end encryption option, messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp should not be used as channels for classified, confidential or sensitive information,” said the director of the Dutch military intelligence…
SONDAGE CLUSTER 17 X POLITICO. Dans la préfecture de Haute-Savoie, l’ex-ministre de l’Economie Antoine Armand pâtit de la concurrence de l’ancien maire, Jean-Luc Rigaut. La gauche non LFI a ses chances. Feb 23 4 mins read
Starmer mirrored Blair’s “mission-led” approach on entering No.10 and hired a raft of former Blair operatives, including Jonathan Powell to advise on national security and Alan Milburn to work on NHS reforms. He gave plum Cabinet positions to Blair’s closest intellectual heirs, Wes Streeting and Peter Kyle. Most notoriously, he put Blair’s old lieutenant Peter Mandelson back at the apex of British politics by hiring him as U.S. ambassador, before being forced to sack him amid still-unfolding revelations about his closeness to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite the numerous threads connecting them, Blair has been a recurring critic of Starmer’s policies, particularly…
Merz has been under fire since clamming up during a March 3 press conference at the White House during which Trump threatened to impose an embargo on Madrid for refusing to allow U.S. military planes to use Spanish air bases to attack Iran, and slammed Spain for its refusal to commit 5 percent of its GDP to military spending. After the meeting, the chancellor claimed he hadn’t spoken up to defend a fellow EU member because he hadn’t wanted to risk “aggravating” the situation by rebuking Trump in public. He added he’d later told the president behind closed doors that economic…
By Sertac Aktan with AP Published on 09/03/2026 – 21:29 GMT+1 Police in New York have detained two suspects accused of throwing homemade explosive devices at officers during a protest outside Gracie Mansion on Monday. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are being investigated for an “IS-inspired” attack with devices filled with nuts, bolts, and screws that failed to ignite. The devices that were thrown at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City. Meanwhile, two houses in north-eastern Pennsylvania’s Middletown that are linked to the incident were searched. The arrests follow a chaotic counter-protest against far-right activist…
While cutting red tape has long been a priority for governments, a sudden surge in energy prices has sent EU leaders scrambling for ways to avert a full-blown crisis. The price of a barrel of oil broke the $100 mark on Monday as the war in the Middle East — sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran — entered its second week. The finance ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. held talks on Monday to coordinate a possible release of strategic oil reserves to head off the prospect of an inflation shock rocking the world economy. Germany, Belgium and…
After almost an hour, the trilateral meeting between French president Macron, Greek Prime minister Mitsotakis and Cyprus President Christodoulides in Paphos, a city on the southwest coast of Cyprus was concluded. The three leaders discussed behind closed doors in a special room at Andreas Papandreou Air Base in Paphos. The focus was of course on the situation in the Middle East. Christodoulides: ‘The security of Cyprus means the security of Europe’ “Your presence, apart from its high symbolism, is of essential importance for Cyprus, Europe and the EU as a whole”, the President of Cyprus said, thanking both Emmanuel Macron…