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Ukraine claims to have shot down 58 of 80 Russian drones overnight, with attacks killing two in Donetsk. A Russian chemical plant was also hit by a drone strike. Russian drones killed two people and injured two others in the Donetsk region, in the latest barrage of UAVs against Ukraine as Moscow’s all-out war nears the three-year mark.Nine people were injured in Russian attacks on the city of Kherson and other residential areas in the region, according to Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin.Another three people were injured in a Russian attack in the region of Dnipropetrovsk, while five were wounded in…

Anthony Blunt, a royal art historian, confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviets, but the late queen was not officially told about his past until 1973. Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified documents. The files about Anthony Blunt, one of the late monarch’s most senior advisers, were part of a trove of MI5 intelligence agency files that were declassified by Britain’s National Archives on Tuesday. They shed new light on the Cambridge Five, a spy ring linked to…

Switzerland will become a member of the EU’s initiative to facilitate the mobilization of military forces and equipment, already including third countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Canada. Switzerland will join the EU’s military mobility project, which aims to ensure the rapid and smooth movement of military staff, equipment, and assets, after member states agreed on Monday evening to send the country an official invitation.  The Federal Council of the neutral country decided last August that Switzerland would participate in the EU initiative to cut red tape when mobilising armies through or between EU member states,…

TikTok has shut down reports that China is discussing selling its US operations of the group to tech billionaire Elon Musk. The social media platform said the preliminary talks for China to involve Elon Musk as a possible buyer for its US operations are “pure fiction”.TikTok shut down the original Bloomberg report and referred Euronews Business via email to a comment it had earlier made to the BBC. “We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction,” a spokesperson said.TikTok faces 19 January banIt comes as the popular app, used by 170 million Americans, faces a ban on 19 January…

Israeli and Hamas negotiators are set to take a proposed ceasefire deal to their leaders for final approval within the next 24 hours — a truce that, if agreed, would put an end to over a year of war in the Gaza Strip. An official familiar with a ceasefire deal negotiations between Israel and Hamas said there had been a breakthrough in discussions to end hostilities, and each side was taking a draft deal to their leaders for final approval. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added the next 24 hours would be critical in agreeing a deal…

Should Bonne depart — his resignation had not been accepted as of early Monday evening — it would leave Macron without one of his most trusted foreign policy advisers as he prepares to navigate a world order rife with instability and dominated by Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated as U.S. president next week. “It’s a mess,” said one former French diplomat. “The domestic political situation, the impossible budget talks, the future relation[ships] with Trump and Algeria, France’s waning influence in Europe and Africa …. We are going to have to work hard to bounce back.” It’s an open secret in…

Es ist eine Kehrtwende, die Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock verärgern und auch Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius wenig positiv stimmen dürfte. Anders als noch vor Weihnachten will das Bundeskanzleramt nun doch vorerst keinen weiteren drei Milliarden Euro an Ukraine-Hilfen zustimmen. Es sei unredlich, dies vor der Wahl zu tun, sagt die SPD. Die Grünen dagegen nennen es unverantwortlich. Was der Streit mit Scholz’ Rentenversprechen im Wahlkampf zu tun hat, wie sich die Stimmung zwischen SPD und Grünen dadurch deutlich eintrübt und wie die Ukraine dabei das Nachsehen hat, analysiert Gordon Repinski. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht er dann mit dem Vorsitzenden des Auswärtigen Ausschusses im…

Yet that doesn’t mean only European providers can offer sovereign cloud solutions. American providers might also be able to protect customer data from United States government access through technical measures such as client-side encryption, encryption with third-party key management or confidential computing. If securely implemented, the American provider can then only disclose data in its encrypted form. In addition, United States law allows cloud providers to challenge production orders under certain circumstances, including on the basis of comity. Whether such measures can reduce the risk of foreign government access to an acceptable level depends on the nature of the data…

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, was the ringleader of a group of oil-rich nations including Russia and Iran that successfully blocked efforts to limit plastic production during last month’s talks in Busan, South Korea. And there’s no reason to think they won’t try to pull the same thing this year. “Saudi Arabia is now investing heavily in its environmental diplomacy,” said one negotiator from within the self-named high-ambition coalition, who was granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door talks. “I think there aren’t many delegations that can boast such a talented team of negotiators. [It] has the firing…

L’extrême droite nationaliste allemande se tourne de plus en plus vers des alliés idéologiques à l’étranger pour gagner la légitimité qu’elle rêve d’avoir dans son pays. Cette ambition paraissait évidente samedi. Lors du congrès de l’Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD), Alice Weidel, candidate pour devenir la prochaine chancelière, a remercié Elon Musk d’avoir diffusé l’événement sur son compte X, où il a été vu par des millions de personnes dans le monde entier, offrant au parti d’extrême droite une audience bien plus grande que celle à laquelle il est habitué. “Je voudrais remercier Elon Musk, qui retransmet en direct cette conférence…