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Updated: 13/12/2025 – 12:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 13th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Germany this weekend to discuss a plan to end the war with Russia, according to multiple media reports. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also are expected to take part in the meeting, according to the reports. The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the planned meeting in Berlin. U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also attend the Berlin meeting with Zelenskyy and the European leaders, Reuters reported.
The Trump Effect: How One Man’s Politics Rewired Europe From defense to trade to climate policy, Trump’s second term has shaken Europe’s foundations and forced leaders across the continent to adapt to a new transatlantic reality. By POLITICO Illustration by Jiyeun Kang for POLITICO Even with an ocean apart, there isn’t an industry in Europe that hasn’t been impacted by President Donald Trump’s actions. Businesses and consumers alike are reeling from Trump’s tariffs. Climate advocates are reeling from the U.S. pulling out of major treaties, including the Paris Agreement. National budgets are being strained by Trump’s demand for more defense…
Video from state broadcaster KRT on Friday showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hugging the soldiers, as well as laying a white flower in front of portraits of the nine who died in combat. The event took place at a giant building close to the centre of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, called the April 25 House of Culture. The name of the building refers to the founding date that North Korean official history says was when its first leader Kim Il Sung started a militia to fight the Japanese occupation of Korea.
On two major Kazakh stages — in the capital Astana and in Almaty — the IV Freedom Festival unites some of the most prominent names from the world of ballet. Star performers from the Berlin State Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre joined forces with Astana Opera and the Berlin Ballet Company to present a two-act program: a classical staging of Paquita followed by a series of contemporary works. Tickets for the festival quickly sold out, a clear sign of the growing demand for world-class ballet in Kazakhstan. Act I: Classical Paquita The first evening opened with Paquita, staged by…
The European Union’s member states are entering into a decisive phase in the finalisation of the EU-Mercosur trade deal – but whatever obstacles and setbacks they are able to navigate, there is another area of jeopardy. Three crucial votes to be held in the European Parliament could derail, or significantly change the agreement with the trading bloc of South American countries. More than two decades in the making, the agreement was struck one year ago, but it requires the greenlight from both EU countries and EU lawmakers to enter into force. The first parliamentary vote is set for the December…
Published on 13/12/2025 – 8:26 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump says that the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes, even as Thai and Cambodian officials suggested that there is still work to be done to get the ceasefire the US brokered in late October back on track. Trump announced the agreement to restart the ceasefire in a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social, following phone calls with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet. “I had a very good conversation this morning with…
In the same week that Donald Trump dismissed European countries as “decaying” and European leaders as “weak”, they came back with all guns blazing. In a bold move, the European Union decided on Thursday to trigger an emergency clause in the treaties to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion across the bloc’s territory. As a result, the EU has shored up its mightiest leverage, pushed back against external interference and insulated the money from the Kremlin’s war machine – all at once. “We are sending a strong signal to Russia that as…
Updated: 13/12/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 13th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
By Mateusz Jaronski & Jan Bolanowski & Paweł Głogowski Published on 13/12/2025 – 6:15 GMT+1 Polish Border Guard officers have revealed the illegal crossing of the Polish-Belarusian border by more than 180 foreigners. The migrants had entered Polish territory through a tunnel dug under a dam near Narewka in the Podlasie region. Thanks to integrated electronic systems, border guards were able to quickly locate them after they emerged and more than 130 migrants have been apprehended while the search for others is still ongoing. The tunnel is almost a hundred metres long and about 1.5 metres high. The entrance, hidden in the forest…