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  • Pope Leo XIV offers to host Ukraine-Russia peace talks at the Vatican

    05/16/2025 2:28:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 50 replies
    Euro News ^ | 05/16/25 | Oman Al Yahyai
    The newly elected Pope Leo XIV has suggested that the Vatican could host high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, as Istanbul talks were watered down following Russian President Vladimir Putin's refusal to come face to face with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin's statement on Friday, the supreme pontiff plans to "if necessary, provide the Vatican, the Holy See, as a direct meeting (place) between the two sides." Parolin has also expressed his disappointment with the talks in Turkey, which took place on Friday. "It's all tragic because we hoped that a...
  • German Chancellor Merz Vows Creation of ‘Strongest Conventional Army in Europe’

    05/14/2025 9:32:20 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 95 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | Kurt Zindulka
    In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe. Following years of chronic underinvestment in defence and relying on the United States for protection, Chancellor Merz told lawmakers that “strengthening the Bundeswehr is our top priority” and will make “every effort to continue to achieve the greatest possible agreement between the European and American partners.” In this context, Merz promised to expand Germany’s military forces “into the strongest conventional army in Europe,” Die Welt reports.
  • Keir Starmer posts statements about new immigration policies

    05/13/2025 8:56:25 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 7 replies
    X ^ | 05 13 2025 | Keir Starmer
    Keir Starmer has been posting new policies concerning immigration. Here are a few: "We're charging employers more to recruit from overseas and, if they do, they must prove they are investing in British workers and increasing British skills. That's the fair and right thing to do." "This is my promise to British people: Every area of our immigration system will be tightened up, so we have more control. And migration numbers will fall." "Promise made. Promise delivered." "Under the Tories, nearly one million people came to the UK from overseas between 2019 and 2023. My Labour government is taking back...
  • Europe and US briefly upped the pressure on Russia over Ukraine. Trump upended that

    05/12/2025 5:55:23 AM PDT · by McGruff · 36 replies
    CNN ^ | Nick Paton Walsh
    For about 30 hours, the illusion of transatlantic unity over Ukraine was maintained. Europe and Ukraine had demanded a deal on the 30-day unconditional ceasefire the Trump administration proposed two months earlier. European leaders said US President Donald Trump had personally backed their plan – and threat of sanctions if Russia declined to sign up by Monday – in a Saturday phone call, a picture of which they posted online from Kyiv. Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, even joined a chorus of US allies demanding Russia adhere to the ceasefire demand. But then Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke,...
  • Poland Accuses Russia of Arson Attack on Warsaw Shopping Complex

    05/11/2025 2:13:51 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2025 | BREITBART LONDON
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A massive fire that destroyed a large shopping center in Warsaw last year was the result of arson ordered by Russian intelligence services, Polish officials said Sunday on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the blaze. The fire broke out May 12, 2024, in the Marywilska 44 shopping that housed some 1,400 shops and service points. Many of the vendors were from Vietnam, and it inflicted tragedy on many in Warsaw’s Vietnamese community. “We now know for certain that the massive fire on Marywilska was the result of arson commissioned by Russian services,” Prime Minister...
  • Europe throws support behind Ukraine special tribunal to prosecute Russia

    05/09/2025 3:45:15 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 20 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 9, 2025 | Andriy Perun and Vladyslav Smilianets
    Europe threw its support on Friday behind a special tribunal to prosecute President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, a show of unity on a day when Moscow marks its "victory day". At a meeting in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, ministers from almost 20 European nations gave their political sign-off to the tribunal, welcoming the completion of the technical work required to set it up. The tribunal will be set up within the framework of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog that was formed after World War...
  • Facial Recognition Tech to Hit Irish Streets by Summer

    05/08/2025 11:14:54 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    Euroweekly News ^ | 07 May 2025 | Marc Menendez-Roche
    Facial recognition technology is creeping into Ireland fast – and not everyone’s grinning about it. Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has announced that controversial facial recognition legislation will be introduced before the summer, after years of political wrangling, privacy fears and digital drama. The tech – already rolled out across parts of the UK – is being hailed as the Gardaí’s new secret weapon in crime-fighting. But critics say it’s a step too far into Big Brother territory. Are we gradually sliding into that dystopian future? All we can say is, it edges a little closer every day. Back from the...
  • Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying report

    05/07/2025 5:21:21 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 20 replies
    BBC News ^ | May 6, 2025 | Max Matza
    Denmark's foreign minister says he will summon the US ambassador to address a report that Washington's spy agencies have been told to focus on Greenland amid Donald Trump's threats to take over the island. "It worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends," Lars Løkke Rasmussen said, responding to the report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on the semi-autonomous country's independence movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by...
  • Man who repeatedly knifed Dublin Airport passenger in unprovoked attack pleads guilty [Ireland]

    05/07/2025 12:14:59 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 38 replies
    Sunday World ^ | 05/06/2025 11:06 | Eimear Dodd
    A man who stabbed a passenger in an unprovoked attack at Dublin Airport was acting out in a cry for help, a court has been told. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today that Kasonga Mbuyi (52) stabbed a German man in an unprovoked attack. He was seen behaving erratically before the attack and wasn’t wearing shoes. Mbuyi, with an address at Clare Street, Limerick, was suffering from a paranoid delusion at the time and has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia with previous cannabis misuse. He told gardai (police) he carried out the unprovoked and random assault as a cry for...
  • Germany’s New Chancellor Kicks Off Leadership With Ukraine-Affirming Trip to France and Poland

    05/07/2025 8:18:54 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/07/2025 | Oliver JJ Lane
    Friedrich Merz is spending his first day as leader of Germany visiting France and Poland, promising a “fresh start” to EU relationships and signalling defiance to President Trump in saying they will never accept an “imposed” peace on the Ukraine War. The French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed newly appointed Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Paris on Wednesday, the leaders of the two largest and richest countries in Europe publishing a joint statement vowing greater cooperation on defence, economics, and the Ukraine War. Merz will later today travel to Poland for more meetings, which in both cases he said were to launch...
  • EU plans to end Russian gas imports by end of 2027

    05/07/2025 8:43:15 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | 05/07/2025 | Anna Lamche
    The European Commission has published a "roadmap" outlining its plans to end Europe's reliance on Russian energy in the coming years. Under the plans, imports of all Russian gas and liquefied natural gas to European Union member states will be banned by the end of 2027. "No more will we permit Russia to weaponise energy against us... No more will we indirectly help fill up the [Kremlin's] war chests," European Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen said in a news conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday. In response to the plans, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday...
  • Merz appointed German chancellor hours after unprecedented parliamentary defeat

    05/06/2025 8:22:14 AM PDT · by JSM_Liberty · 28 replies
    CNN ^ | Tue May 6, 2025 | Rob Picheta
    Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled deep discontent within his coalition. In a hastily organized session on Tuesday afternoon, 325 lawmakers voted to approve his appointment — more than the 316 he required. His appointment was approved by the president shortly later, and he is set to be sworn in at the Bundestag. Merz, who won an election in February and unveiled a ruling coalition last month, had fallen six votes short earlier in the day, a stunning setback that marked another twist in a tortuous period of uncertainty...
  • Orban Says Forced into Conflict with Zelensky by Threats in His Words

    05/05/2025 4:23:20 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 20 replies
    TASS ^ | 5/5/25
    Speaking in parliament, he stressed that no one can tell Budapest what decision it is to make on Ukraine’s accession to the European UnionBUDAPEST, May 5. /TASS/. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that he was forced into an open conflict with Vladimir Zelensky because he heard a blatant threat in his words. Speaking in parliament, he stressed that no one can tell Budapest what decision it is to make on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. The Hungarian prime minister noted that until recently he has been trying to avoid spats with Zelensky and ignore his provocative remarks...
  • EU announces €500 million package to woo scientists away from Trump's America

    05/05/2025 5:43:30 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    France24 ^ | May 5, 2025
    French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are hosting a Paris conference to attract US researchers ready to relocate because of President Donald Trump's policies. EU commissioners, scientists and ministers for research from member countries will discuss, among other things, financial incentives at the gathering to lure disgruntled American scientists across the Atlantic. Paris's Sorbonne university is hosting the conference, called "Choose Europe for Science". Under Trump, universities and research facilities in the United States have come under increasing political and financial pressure, including from threats of massive federal funding cuts. Research programmes face closure,...
  • Trump Reveals His Red Line in Ukraine Peace Push

    05/04/2025 7:45:18 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 47 replies
    US President Donald Trump said that the United States may one day decide to withdraw from the process of negotiations on the settlement of the Ukraine conflict. "Well, there will be time, when I will say: okay, keep going, keep being stupid, keep fighting ... There will be time when I may say that," Trump said in an interview for the NBC News broadcaster out on Sunday. The US leader noted that sometimes he is close to making such a decision, but then "positive things happen." On Friday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said the US was not ready yet...
  • Fearful of Trump, some Americans look to make a life in Europe

    05/04/2025 7:34:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 146 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 4, 2025 | Catarina Demony and Andrew Hofstetter
    When U.S. President Donald Trump decided to seek a second term in the White House, Doris Davis and Susie Bartlett - an interracial lesbian couple living in New York City - made a life-changing decision. If he won, they would move abroad. The couple said they had been willing to give Trump a go during his first term, but they'd watched in alarm as he returned to office and ended a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and rights for LGBTQ+ people. "We love this country, but we don't love what it has become," Davis, a 69-year-old educational...
  • Russia Alone in Confronting Entire Collective West - Putin

    05/04/2025 11:05:58 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 67 replies
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia did not initiate its military operation in Ukraine any earlier because it believed in the Minsk agreements and aimed to resolve the Donbass issue peacefully.Russia did not prepare specifically for a military operation, but instead sought a peaceful resolution to the Donbass conflict, Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin in a documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary since the president's first inauguration. The country could not proceed with drastic action on Ukraine without first addressing key issues in the spheres of security and the economy. The president pointed out that the United States is...
  • Christie Decries Trump Tariffs — World Sees U.S. as ‘Unreliable Partner’

    05/04/2025 9:40:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 70 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/04/2025 | Pam Key
    Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s tariffs caused the world to see the United States as an “unreliable partner.” Host George Stephanopoulos said, “I think you identified the tariffs as the number one issue. Liberation Day is probably the most consequential day of the first 100 days. Is there an exit strategy for Donald Trump on this? He asked, “Can he make this sort of series of deals that limit the damage?”
  • War Between The US And Canada - Is It Now A Real Possibility?

    05/02/2025 9:46:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 51 replies
    Alt-Market.us ^ | 05/02/2025 | Brandon Smith
    Reality is absolutely downstream from fiction. Did the creators of South Park predict the future in their 1999 comedy film? I think we’re all suddenly realizing that prognostication is easy – Simply imagine the most absurd scenario possible and eventually it’s going to come true because we’re living in clown world.A war between Canada and the US opening up a portal to hell might be a bit of a stretch, but recent events lead me to believe that there are very real ingredients coming together that could trigger an active conflict with our neighbors to the north. Furthermore, these factors...
  • Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organisation, citing threat to democracy

    05/02/2025 3:05:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Euronews ^ | 5/2 | Estelle Nilsson-Julien & Aleksandar Brezar
    Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has designated AfD as a right-wing extremist organisation, citing xenophobic stances as the reason. Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on Friday designated the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a right-wing extremist organisation that poses a threat to democracy and the constitutional order. The office, also known as BvF, cited the AfD’s xenophobic stances on ethnicity as the reason for the decision, stating the party was being discriminatory towards non-ethnic Germans. According to the statement released on Friday, the office's experts have examined whether the AfD's...