As if it wasn’t already in a jam over the delayed rollout of its anti-deforestation regulation, the European Union could have made things a whole lot worse in its desperation to appease Donald Trump. It had been humiliating enough for Ursula von der Leyen to hot foot it to a…

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is once again in the spotlight for his closeness to Moscow. Yesterday, Tuesday, he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing where the Russian leader praised him for pursuing what he called an independent foreign policy. But what does this so-called “independence” really mean for…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned today, Friday 5 September, that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before a peace agreement is signed would be treated as “legitimate targets” by Moscow’s forces. This statement comes hours after 26 of Ukraine’s allies pledged to send troops as part of a so-called…

French president Emmanuel Macron announced that 26 nations have pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, including an international force on land, sea, and in the air. The statement followed a summit in Paris where European leaders sought to clarify the level of support the United States is willing…

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say The extreme weather that fuelled devastating wildfires across Spain and Portugal last month was made 40 times more likely by climate breakdown, early analysis suggests. The blazes, which torched 500,000 hectares (1.2m acres) of the…