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Published on 03/04/2026 – 5:33 GMT+2 US Defence Secretary has asked the US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure. George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,” said Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman. He has held the post, which typically runs for four years, since August 2023 under the Biden administration. During a nearly four-decade military career, George deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times and also served in positions including vice chief of…

“The closer we get to the presidential election, the more there’ll be an atmosphere of winding down, which is very normal, I’m aware of it,” Lecornu said in an interview with Le Figaro last weekend. Deputies depart Two of Moulin’s deputies, Emilie Piette and Constance Bensussan, are among those on their way out. Piette is off to head the RTE electricity network agency and Bensussan is moving to France’s CNAF benefits agency. And shortly before the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began, Macron’s top Middle East adviser, Anne-Claire Legendre, left in February to head the Arab World Institute, replacing Jack Lang,…

Published on 03/04/2026 – 4:57 GMT+2 US Vice President JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday and Wednesday, during the final week of campaigning ahead of the country’s general election, the White House has announced. Vance will hold talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and deliver remarks on the “rich partnership between the United States and Hungary”, according to the White House statement. The visit comes as Hungary prepares for a pivotal election on 12 April, in which Orbán’s 16-year grip on power faces its biggest challenge. The opposition Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, leads Orbán’s Fidesz in opinion…

Despite the war in Iran and its economic consequences preoccupying London and Brussels, much work is going on behind the scenes to strike a closer relationship between the U.K. and the European Union. Nearly a decade after Britain voted to leave the bloc, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has tasked his ministers with negotiating a post-Brexit reset that brings areas of the British economy in alignment with the EU in a bid to bring down prices and cut regulations on businesses. In this interview episode of EU Confidential, host Anne McElvoy talks to one of Starmer’s closest allies, Nick Thomas-Symonds. The…

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