US president has argued New Delhi is indirectly helping fund the Ukraine war, as experts say the move is an “own goal” against an ally. Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most US imports from India, making good on a threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over...
Squatters are back in Amsterdam
The late Dutch author and Holocaust survivor Marga Minco once wrote about an empty house in Amsterdam where she and other artists hid at the end of the second world war. Last month, that same house was occupied by a new generation of squatters. In Amsterdam’s overcrowded and overpriced housing...
Russia could back delay to ‘snapback’ of nuclear sanctions against Iran
Moscow willing to support six-month extension of deadline before punishments are reimposed. Russia could back an extended six-month deadline for its ally Iran before European powers reimpose sweeping United Nations sanctions over Tehran’s refusal to allow UN inspectors back into nuclear sites after the Israeli-US assault in June. France, Britain...
Indonesia protests against corrupt elites
Controversy over housing allowance, which is almost 10 times minimum wage, comes amid President Prabowo Subianto’s austerity drive. Riot police have fired water cannon and rounds of teargas at thousands of stone-throwing protesters in capital as anger over the lavish allowances of parliament members has fuelled public anger. Thousands of...
Denmark summons US charge d’affaires over alleged attempts to interfere with Greenland’s status
Foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that “any attempt to interfere in the Kingdom’s internal affairs will obviously be unacceptable.” The move comes after DR reported that Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of “at least three” people working on “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between...
EU and Spain risk rights abuse complicity in Mauritania
Racial and ethnic profiling, extortion, mass arrests, detention for days or weeks with little to no food, collective expulsions, beatings and torture: these are just some of the violations migrants, asylum seekers, and others have experienced over the past several years at the hands of security forces in the context...
US explored energy deals with Russia during Ukraine peace talks
US and Russian officials quietly discussed potential energy deals earlier this month, while holding talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine Possible arrangements were presented as incentives for Moscow to consider peace terms and for Washington to ease sanctions, according to anonymous sources cited by Reuters on Tuesday evening...
Von der Leyen or Draghi: Europe’s power under question
Over the weekend, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stepped in to defend the EU- US tariff deal, after sharp criticism from Mario Draghi, economist, former ECB chief and former Italian prime minister who, just last year, was asked by von der Leyen to compile a report with ideas...
Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech
Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs and export restrictions on countries whose taxes, legislation and regulations target US big tech companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple. In a post on the US president’s social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said “digital taxes, legislation, rules or regulations are...
Bayrou’s Budget Battle
French prime minister François Bayrou said on Monday that he would seek parliamentary backing for his unpopular plans to shore up France’s ailing public finances on 8 September, asking deputies to “confirm the scale” of spending cuts he says are needed to save €44bn (£38bn) a year. “We face an...