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For decades, Las Vegas has been known for a simple mantra: “What happens here, stays here.” The slogan captured the spirit of a city that has had a reputation for being a playground of late nights and high stakes. But while the neon-lit Strip still delivers on that promise, the destination’s identity is shifting. Today, Las Vegas’s tourism offering is evolving beyond its casinos and party reputation, and emerging as a global hub for major league sport, live music and events. This repositioning comes at a pivotal moment for “Sin City”, as it responds to changing travel patterns and mounting…
Bulgaria is heading towards another tight parliamentary election this month — and it wants the EU to help counter malign foreign interference. Haunted by memories of coordinated social media campaigns targeting other countries in the region, the government is concerned that Russian misinformation could sway public opinion ahead of the vote. Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, senior EU politics editor, discuss what tools Brussels has to counter foreign interference efforts. Also on the show, a Signal group chat with European Commission officials has been shut down over security concerns. But this isn’t an isolated case, it’s part of a series of cyberattacks targeting the EU executive branch. Finally: We take a look at the Italian football fiasco that’s sparking a political row. Want to send us a…
In der Nacht zu Donnerstag unserer Zeit hat Donald Trump eine Rede zur Nation gehalten. In der erwähnt er die NATO mit keinem Wort und doch baut er weiter Druck in Richtung der Verbündeten auf. Während er den Verlauf und die Erfolge des Iran-Kriegs lobt, schiebt er die Verantwortung für die Straße von Hormus von sich weg. Rixa Fürsen analysiert, wie Trump erst die Weltordnung und die globale Wirtschaft mit dem Vorschlaghammer zertrümmert und sich jetzt auf die Zuschauerbank zurückziehen will. Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius (SPD) hatte große Pläne für die Bundeswehr bis Ostern versprochen. Geliefert wurde bisher nichts. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview…
Four astronauts embarked on a historic voyage towards the moon on Wednesday, the first lunar mission in more than 50 years. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center where tens of thousands gathered to witness the launch. Crowds also jammed the surrounding roads and beaches, reminiscent of the Apollo moonshots in the 1960s and ’70s. It is NASA’s biggest step yet toward establishing a permanent lunar presence. Artemis II set sail from the same Florida launch site that sent Apollo’s explorers to the moon so long ago. The team, who donned bright…
Challenged on the view that European capitals have been less enthusiastic than Britain at the prospect of a post-Brexit rapprochement with the EU, Thomas-Symonds insisted the timetable and ambitions remained firm. “The bill will introduce the mechanism of alignment — and I would expect that to be completed by the end of 2026 and to have completed its parliamentary passage by then,” he said. ‘Hardball’ His bullish comments follow a bruising setback to talks after EU officials insisted European students studying at U.K. universities should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year in England and Wales as part of…
But Parry expressed concerns that the controversy regarding Boyarsakaya’s role in the OSCE could undermine the work done by the organization. “The public campaign surrounding this matter risks doing precisely the kind of damage to mission credibility that its authors claim to want to prevent,” he said. Parallel to the parliamentary assembly, the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights also deploys hundreds of specialists to observe the vote at a technical level and delivers the final legal assessment of the election’s integrity, that risks being drawn into its sister mission’s controversy. In a move that could further undercut…
European prosecutors on Wednesday demanded that Greece lift the parliamentary immunity of 11 lawmakers suspected of involvement in a scam that syphoned off millions of euros in EU farm subsidies for years. The scandal has rocked Greece since the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) revealed the fraud in May, prompting widespread protests by farmers after it led to delays in the payment of agricultural aid. The case has piled major pressure on Greece’s conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, especially given his family’s decades-long political influence in Crete, where most of the allegedly fraudulent subsidies went. “The European Chief Prosecutor requested…
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Leaving home, taking a year out, travelling the world: that’s a path many young people choose after finishing school. But Léocadie Reimers went a different route. Rather than taking a gap year, she opted for military service in the German armed forces. At 24, she saw the decision as an opportunity to try something new and see a different side of life. Before her military service, Reimers had been involved in volunteer work and saw her time as an extension of that, her “contribution to society” as she calls it. At the same time, she was drawn by the prospect…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot met with his Bahraini counterpart as well as other senior Gulf region officials on March 25 to “share observations” which aim to “maximize the likelihood of the text’s adoption and subsequent implementation,” one of the diplomats said. French President Emmanuel Macron last month called for the U.N. to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz. France is one of the European countries leading Europe’s response to the Iran crisis via a combination of military pledges — Paris has vowed to send warships to the Strait once fighting has died down — and diplomatic efforts via the…