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Florence Gaub vom NATO Defense College in Rom und Gordon Repinski analysieren den jüngsten NATO-Gipfel und die ständige Krisenbewältigung des Verteidigungsbündnisses. Sie blicken auf die Ukraine, die den Krieg zunehmend auf russisches Territorium verlagert und Moskaus Strategie unter Druck setzt. Am Ende könnte ein instabiler Frieden stehen, während Russland längst bis ins Jahr 2050 plant. Die beiden diskutieren zudem, wo die nächsten großen geopolitischen Konflikte lauern könnten. Statt eines Angriffs auf Polen oder das Baltikum sieht Gaub eine massive Bedrohung durch die russische Militarisierung der Arktis und des Weltalls. Der Klimawandel und schmelzendes Eis eröffnen im Norden ganz neue strategische…
Europe’s housing market regained momentum in 2025, even as property prices continued to climb across most of the continent. Belgium and Austria were among the countries recording annual sales growth of more than 20%. Real estate is the main source of household wealth in the eurozone, according to the European Central Bank. While most buyers purchase a home to live in, others see property as an investment. Eurostat data shows wide differences in market performance, with annual changes in sales ranging from a 4.1% decline in Croatia to a 29.9% increase in Slovenia. “Residential property transactions are mainly influenced by…
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Trump then said FIFA should “pick somebody else for the next one and that will take some of the anger, hatred and steam out of everyone.” The next men’s World Cup available for bidding is the 2038 tournament. FIFA has awarded the 2030 World Cup to a six-country hosting arrangement that includes Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with opening matches in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay to mark the 100th anniversary of the tournament. Saudi Arabia has been chosen to host in 2034. Trump also revealed that FIFA President Gianni Infantino had suggested having the U.S. and China host a World Cup together, quipping that the…
Published on 18/07/2026 – 21:28 GMT+2 Just before take-off, there was time for one last family photo – a few minutes later the head of Siemens’ Spanish division, Agustín Escobar, his wife and their three children aged eleven, seven and four, together with the helicopter pilot, plunged into the icy Hudson River. More than a year after the disaster, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the findings of its investigation. According to the report, investigators discovered the remains of several geese in the helicopter’s rotor blades. According to police, four people died at the scene, while two…
A haze fell over the Capitol in Washington on Friday as smoke from Canadian wildfires stretched farther east, prompting the president and Republican lawmakers to level blame at Canada for forestry practices they said were wrecking U.S. air quality. U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans harangued the Canadian government for failing to remove excess timber and brush that fuels blazes like the ones now burning in northern Ontario. The Carney government, they said, is responsible for the toxic smoke causing dangerous air quality in cities like Chicago, New York and Washington that prompted warnings for millions of Americans to stay indoors.…
Tamás Sulyok has signed the seventeenth amendment to Hungary’s Fundamental Law, a move that brings his own mandate as president of the republic to an end. In a speech posted on Facebook, the head of state described the constitutional amendment forcing his resignation as unprecedented and shameful. “With a single sentence this amendment terminates the mandate of the sitting President of the Republic. That sentence joins the ranks of those forced Gordian-knot fixes that will remain for posterity as grave and shameful historical examples of abuse of political power,” he said. The outgoing head of state sharply criticised the law…
“I am fulfilling my obligation under the Fundamental Law — after thoroughly weighing my legal options and my conscience,” Sulyok said in a post on social media. “At the same time, however, it is enduring proof that the fundamental values of a free society — the rule of law, democracy, and the principle of the separation of powers — have been trampled upon for the sake of political power.” Sulyok had five days to sign the amendment, and many Hungarians — including Magyar — expected him to refuse. His alternative was to refer the amendment to Hungary’s Constitutional Court. Although…
By Harry Bligh with AP and AFP Published on 18/07/2026 – 17:43 GMT+2 The death toll from two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month has risen to 5,069. The figure has continued to increase as rescue workers clear debris and search through rubble following the earthquakes on 24 June. International rescue teams joined thousands of Venezuelan emergency workers in efforts to find people trapped beneath the rubble. Interim President Delcy Rodríguez described the disaster as the “most brutal natural catastrophe” in Venezuela’s history. The Venezuelan government reported that 856 buildings had been damaged, 190 of which had collapsed completely. Hundreds of other…
But while electronic voting machines have not been exploited at scale, they do have vulnerabilities that researchers have pressed manufacturers and election officials alike to patch for more than 10 years. Many of these vulnerabilities have been discovered during the annual Voting Village gathering at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, where hackers are able to physically rip apart some of the more common types of voting machines and poll books used across the country. Each time, they’ve found vulnerabilities. At the 2017 event, each piece of equipment in the room was breached by participants within three days, including one…