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US energy firms signed a series of multi-billion-dollar deals with Venezuela on Wednesday, days after the South American country agreed to grant Washington control of a huge chunk, roughly one-fifth, of its vast oil reserves. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright travelled to Venezuela’s capital Caracas to oversee the signing of deals worth “tens of billions of dollars of investment,” seen as a quid pro quo for Washington winning majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves. Wright said the deals signed by Venezuela with US oil major Chevron, GE Vernova – a General Electric offshoot – and Italy’s…
Ein Antrag im CDU-Kreisverband Harz droht die politische Zukunft von Sachsen-Anhalts Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze zu gefährden. Kurz vor der Wahl steht die strikte Unvereinbarkeit mit der Linkspartei auf dem Prüfstand. Es ist ein Beschluss, der Schulze jede Machtoption rauben könnte. Nikolaus Doll von WELT berichtet von einem denkwürdigen Abend und welche Kettenreaktion der Union nun bevorstehen könnte. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview bespricht Jasper Bennink mit dem Digitalminister Karsten Wildberger die wachsende Gefahr durch autonome KI-Agenten in Unternehmensnetzwerken. Wildberger skizziert einen globalen Regulierungsansatz nach dem Vorbild der Atomkraft und offenbart, wie verwundbar die Systeme aktuell noch sind. Das ausführliche Gespräch gibt es in…
The EU’s diplomatic service presented on Wednesday additional listings targeting 27 Russian individuals and entities involved in the forced deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children. EU ambassadors reviewed the new blacklisting at their first meeting since the summer recess. It is expected to be adopted by the end of the month. It is not the first time Brussels has targeted those responsible for Russia’s illegal mass abduction, deportation and re-education of minors from Ukraine’s occupied territories. Several individual listings have already featured in previous sanctions packages. In May, EU countries blacklisted 16 individuals and seven entities to mark the high-level…
The man leading the charge to make Germany proud again won’t say he wants his fellow Germans to “forget” the Nazi past, but that is where his ideas invariably lead. Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, a 48-year-old lawmaker for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, was until recently little known beyond his largely rural constituency. But he may soon be in a position to help realize one of the greatest ambitions of the party’s most extreme faction: remaking his country’s postwar identity and steering Germans toward leaving behind the Nazi past. That history “remains present in…
Russia may attempt to influence next year’s general election in Italy, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday, calling it an “issue that concerns the entire European Union.” “It cannot be ruled out that there may be attempts to influence the elections in the countries where the vote is being held,” said Tajani after arriving for an informal EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Wicklow, Ireland. “I do not rule out attempts by the Russian Federation to interfere in the democratic life of European Union countries, interfering in free democratic elections held in our countries, attempting to influence the will of…
In an exclusive interview, European Union Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told Euronews that the EU is not in a position to mediate in the trade war between Canada and the United States following the collapse of their trade talks. Ten days ago, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from the negotiations with the Trump administration, blaming them for pressuring Canada over the use of the French language. In the following days, US President Donald Trump announced 50% US tariffs on Canadian cars and trucks, to which Ottawa retaliated with tariffs on more than 700 US imports, worth about $20…
The European Union’s worsening exposure to extreme weather and imported fossil fuels makes decarbonisation as much a matter of economic and security policy as climate policy, a senior European Commission official said. Russia’s war against Ukraine and the disruption around the Strait of Hormuz have raised successive warnings about Europe’s dependence on imported oil and gas, Jan Dusik, director general at the Commission’s climate department, said on the sidelines of the think tank Bruegel Annual Meetings on Wednesday. “Climate policy must survive, because we want to survive in Europe,” Dusik said, arguing that abandoning or weakening the agenda would ignore…
The man suspected of fatally shooting an Italian woman at a rave party in Switzerland is suffering from “psychological problems” and has remained silent while in custody, prosecutors said on Wednesday. According to AFP, the man turned himself in to police and confessed to the shooting, saying he had “been suffering from health problems for some time”. He is a 43-year-old Swiss citizen living in the canton of Jura. The man is in custody and faces charges of intentional homicide, bodily harm and violations of firearms legislation. Gunfire broke out early on Sunday as an annual rave was coming to…
Published on 02/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 On Sunday, Saxony-Anhalt could become the centre of a political earthquake. The AfD party is polling at more than 40 percent, far ahead of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU). Such a strong result could give the far right a path to governing a German state for the first time since World War II. That would shatter one of the most important political taboos in modern Germany — and send a powerful signal to Europe. A stronger AfD would mean a tougher battle over migration, climate policy and support for Ukraine — and potentially a…
It was the highlight of Emmanuel Macron’s two-day visit to the United Kingdom, which began on Wednesday: the French president and the British prime minister joined King Charles III and Queen Camilla for a private viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry. The masterpiece of medieval art, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066, is a centuries-old symbol of Franco-British relations. Macron personally decided on the one-year loan during his state visit to the UK in July 2025, to “reinvigorate cultural relations” and underline “the trust that now exists” between Paris and London. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham hailed “a…