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The German government has approved a new system to make it easier to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners. Germany’s federal government has set up a new arbitration court to simplify the process of returning property stolen during the Nazi regime. The court is intended to make the final decision in a situation where parties dispute the return of Nazi-looted art during a preliminary process. The Arbitration Court for Nazi Looted Property allows for “unilateral appealability”. This distinguishes it from the old system where the descendants of the former owners and the current owners both had to agree on…

The targets in the agreement, which saw countries around the world pledge to keep warming below 2C and ideally within 1.5C, refer to long-term warming over several decades, not a single year. But last year’s unprecedented temperatures are a sign that the world is getting close to breaching the lower goal of the Paris Agreement, scientists say.  “Each year in the last decade is one of the 10 warmest on record. We are now teetering on the edge of passing the 1.5C level defined in the Paris Agreement, and the average of the last two years is already above this…

Asked about his plans for their future relationship, he said: “I don’t plan anything, if something comes, it will come naturally … I don’t demand anything, let the collaboration happen naturally.” In recent weeks, Musk has made dramatic interventions with a far-right, anti-migration agenda in both German and British politics, most controversially by openly backing the populist Alternative for Germany party ahead of a Feb. 23 election. Trump dismissed concerns about Musk’s repeated attacks on European governments, but Brussels is firing warning shots over what it sees as an attempt by Trump’s new co-director of the Department of Government Efficiency…

The furthest developed mine near the southern tip of the country, Kuannersuit or Kvaneflejd, was effectively blocked from exploitation because its deposits of rare earths are mixed with uranium. The company holding the exploitation license has sued Greenland’s government for $11 billion.  Other deposits are much smaller and harder to access, meaning their exploitation would require vast sums of investment and a lot of time to develop. Greenland’s voters will head to the polls at the latest in April, with Egede hinting during his New Year’s address that he might also propose a referendum on independence from Denmark. He’s in…

Climate campaigners are calling for wealth taxes on the top 1 per cent to limit their pollution and pay for damages. The richest 1 per cent of people have already blown through their fair share of the global carbon budget for the year just 10 days into January. That’s according to a new analysis from Oxfam, which takes aim at the “lavish lifestyles” of the super-rich for fuelling the climate crisis.‘Pollutocrat Day’, as the anti-poverty and inequality organisation has dubbed it, falls in a week marred by terrifying scenes of climate-driven devastation in Los Angeles. “The future of our planet is hanging…

However, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen organized a meeting with party leaders on Thursday to discuss the issue, while Rasmussen backpedaled on his initial nonchalant reaction. “We are taking this very seriously, but we don’t have any ambition to escalate a war of words with a president that is on the way into the White House,” he said. Unfit to fight an invasion Under the 1951 pact, the U.S. accepted the legal obligation to defend against any attack on the massive Arctic island, given the inability of the Danish armed forces to fight off a potential aggressor without help. “Denmark…

Updated: 10/01/2025 – 5:45 GMT+1 German police have identified the woman who threw the cake as a 34-year-old member of the Left Party. … More German police have identified the woman who threw the cake as a 34-year-old member of the Left Party.She has been charged with alleged assault and insult, a police spokesman said.

After years of tension with the previous Conservative government over human rights and security concerns, Reeves has political space to take a different, more business-like approach to Beijing and try and tap China’s vast market for economic benefits.  “Everything the Tories did on foreign policy was about backbench management,” said a U.K. government official, who, like others in this article, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “We got to a position where we were the G7 country with the worst relationship with China.” Reeves’ mission has become more desperate as the U.K. economy continues to falter, with borrowing costs this week…

The late US President Jimmy Carter received a funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. All living current and former presidents were in attendance, in addition to foreign dignitaries, to witness the final honouring of the 39th US president. Former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, was honoured with a stated funeral and the National Cathedral in the US capital on Thursday.Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the funeral just days after announcing his resignation following weeks of domestic pressure calling on him to step down. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres also attended the service.All living…

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. And we’re back! After a couple of weeks spent hiding under the Southern European sun, Declassified is here, ready to pick up where we left off. And if 2024 went out with a bang, it seems that 2025 has started playing the same tune. Europe will soon have to deal with yet another unexpected election, this time in Germany — remember Germany? The strong and stable powerhouse of the EU, where the biggest political scandal used to be a defense minister forced to resign after being found to have copied parts of his…