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Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won a record supermajority in parliament, preliminary results showed Monday. The tightly controlled three-day vote excluded every party critical of the Kremlin or the war in Ukraine. Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova said United Russia had secured 355 of the State Duma’s 450 seats. That beats its previous record of 343, set in 2016, and is well above the 301 needed to change the constitution. Final results are due later this week. The Communist Party came second with 40 seats, followed by the nationalist LDPR on 25, New People on 20 and A…

“We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected…

Published on 21/09/2026 – 17:13 GMT+2 Calin Georgescu has been detained in Romania as prosecutors said they were investigating the former Romanian presidential candidate for fraud. Georgescu, a pro-Russian politician who first made headlines during Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was detained by police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on Monday. He was taken in for questioning over alleged fraud and forming an organised criminal group. Prosecutors accused Georgescu and two others of defrauding a Romanian businessman by making him believe he could get access to up to €15 million worth of foreign bank financing in…

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Trump ended his post with a demand to end the conflict in Ukraine. “This ridiculous and never-ending war with Ukraine must be ended,” he said. “The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!” Responding to Trump’s message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that his country was ready to stop its attacks on Russia if the Kremlin did the same for Ukraine. “Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part,” he wrote,…

The European Union and Canada last week unveiled plans for an ambitious new partnership that could eventually give Canada a form of associate EU membership. Yet their existing landmark agreement remains unfinished business. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed in 2016 and has applied provisionally since 2017, removing almost all tariffs and helping drive a sharp increase in transatlantic trade. But ten EU countries – Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia – have still not ratified it. The contrast was underlined last week when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited…

Published on 21/09/2026 – 19:45 GMT+2 Ground stops have been ordered at six airports in the northeastern United States on Monday due to an “equipment outage,” causing disruption to thousands of flyers. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ground stops are in place at Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International, John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia, Teterboro, and Westchester County airports. Data from flight-tracking site Flightradar24 shows “major problems” at both Newark and Philadelphia, with average flight delays of around 170 minutes and 60 minutes, respectively. The site reported there had been 92 cancellations and close to 70 diversions at Newark as…

Ce samedi, le Rassemblement national a publié un long communiqué pour dénoncer les tentatives d’ingérence et de guerre hybride de Moscou. Une déclaration qui contraste avec la réaction de Jordan Bardella à la sortie de l’Elysée, où Emmanuel Macron avait convié, la veille, les chefs de parti pour évoquer les tensions internationales. Le patron du RN avait alors dénoncé l’absence de propositions sur le carburant, sans s’étendre sur la guerre en Ukraine. Pourquoi une telle correction de tir ? Le lien à la Russie reste-t-il le talon d’Achille d’une formation qui peine à définir une ligne claire, au risque d’alimenter…

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia posed “no threat” to France or any other European country, local media reported. His comments came after the far-right National Rally party’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella issued a warning to Moscow on the weekend. “We will never tolerate a foreign power, specifically Russia, attempting to dictate our country’s policies through intimidation, threats, destabilisation, or psychological pressure, either directly or indirectly,” the pair said in a joint statement. In response, Peskov told reporters that Russia was “not threatening France or any other country in Europe,” adding that “President Putin has…

Published on 21/09/2026 – 18:14 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said Washington was working on a “massive” deal to buy fertilizer from Belarus, despite Minsk’s repression of dissidents and support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be “substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada,” the US neighbour against which he has stepped up a trade war. Potash is a potassium-rich salt mined mainly for fertilizer, helping crops grow and improving yields. Canada supplies most of the potash used by American farmers. Belarus is one of…