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Cavoli is the first military official to confirm that Ukrainian troops have entered the Belgorod region. Ukraine’s own military has not officially confirmed its troops’ presence in Belgorod, but regularly reports Ukrainian airstrikes in the region.    Neither Cavoli nor the Ukrainian army revealed how much territory Ukrainians control in the Kursk region, but according to the DeepState OSINT project that monitors military operations, Kyiv’s forces still hold around 140 square kilometers in Kursk, out of the 1,300 they originally seized last summer in the surprise cross-border offensive. In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his army has been…

BRUSSELS ― The Belgian prosecutor has charged eight people with active corruption, money laundering and criminal organization in an investigation into Huawei’s lobbying activities in Europe, it said in a statement on Friday. The decision comes three weeks after police raids in Belgium and Portugal, as part of a probe into suspected illegal payments by the Chinese technology giant to secure support from European lawmakers in the company’s interests. Police authorities also searched European Parliament offices in Strasbourg. Out of the eight suspects in the case, three were initially held in pre-trial detention and are now under electronic surveillance following…

Meanwhile, Rubio headed back to Washington after scrapping his planned final press conference, something that the U.S. delegation said was due to a scheduling change. Despite those discordant notes, foreign ministers continued to insist that the alliance is still functioning. “We all understand and feel the profound change in the international relations and in this situation the Czech policy is to keep America as much as possible involved in European security,” Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told POLITICO. “NATO presence is one of the unique tools to do so.” Other officials underlined that they were meeting Trump’s demand to increase…

The EU has announced a new strategic partnership with countries in Central Asia at the conclusion of a debut summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand.The first EU-Central Asia summit saw European Council president António Costa EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen hold two days of talks with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The summit took place amid a turbulent geopolitical and economic climate, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a raft of global trade tariffs on several countries, including allies like the EU and the UK, rattling markets and drawing criticism from…

‘Unable to recover the tariff’ Northern Ireland’s unionist Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has also warned that the duty reimbursement scheme isn’t up to scratch. It is “not fit for purpose for businesses,” she said Thursday. One of Manufacturing NI’s members, Kelly said, sought what would have been a small amount of money, a few hundred pounds, from the scheme, he said. “It took three days to capture the information and go and find it.” Data required to make a claim includes details about the supply chain and where the product comes from, as well as shipping information, product codes,…

U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband hopes to use the summit to promote his vision of homegrown renewable power, which he says will liberate the country from fossil fuels and the wild gas price swings that have harmed industry and consumers since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Trump administration views this narrative as a direct attack on its interests, which it describes as “energy dominance” through the production and export of fossil fuels. It also claims that vision underplays the vital role gas plays in energy security in countries like the U.K. The U.S. is Britain’s second largest supplier of…

US employers added a surprising 228,000 jobs last month, as the American labour market continues to show resilience as President Donald Trump wages trade wars, purges federal workers and deports immigrants working in the United States illegally. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.The hiring numbers were up from 117,000 in February and were nearly double the 130,000 that economists had expected. Labour Department revisions shaved 48,000 jobs off January and February payrolls.Workers’ average hourly earnings rose 0.3% from February, about what economists had expected. Compared to a year earlier, hourly pay was up 3.8%, a bit lower than the…

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology.Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what’s powering today’s artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, it played a critical role in creating Microsoft in April 1975 – a golden anniversary that the Redmond, Washington, company will celebrate on Friday.Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend – the late Paul…

“This place is magnificent!” states Ghislaine Escande, a painter and visual artist who has been coming to Art Paris since the very beginning. And she’s not the only one to say so.For its 27th edition, the modern and contemporary art fair is celebrating its return to the Grand Palais, to the delight of visitors.Beneath the newly renovated nave, home to the largest glass roof in Europe, the spring sunlight floods the space, illuminating thousands of artworks: from sculptures and paintings to photographs, comic strips – and for the first time, even design pieces.Highlights of 2025Designers, guests of honourTo mark the…

Israeli officials accuse Boehm, a philosophy professor at the New School for Social Research in New York with double German-Israeli citizenship, of trivializing the Holocaust. “The decision to invite Omri Boehm, a man who has described Yad Vashem [Israel’s memorial to Holocaust victims] as an instrument of political manipulation, relativized the Holocaust and even compared it to the Nakba [the Palestinian term for the flight of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war], is not only outrageous, but a blatant insult to the memory of the victims,” the Israeli embassy wrote on X. “Under the guise of science,…