Navalnaya calls Putin ‘bloody mobster,’ urges EU to do more to defeat Russian...
(CN) — Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, delivered an impassioned speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “bloody mobster” who must...
View ArticlePutin warns of nuclear war in conflict with West
(CN) — In a jingoistic state-of-the-nation speech touting Russia as an invincible superpower, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Western powers of raising the risk of nuclear war by...
View ArticleA funeral of resistance in Russia: Alexei Navalny burial draws thousands of...
(CN) — Occasionally breaking out into shouts of “No to war,” “Russia will be free” and “Putin is a murderer,” thousands of people convened at a church and cemetery in southern Moscow to pay their...
View ArticleHistoric vote: France enshrines abortion into constitution
(CN) — France on Monday became the first nation in the world to make abortion a constitutional right, a move spurred by the rollback of abortion rights in the United States. French lawmakers...
View ArticleIn Europe, Big Tech forced to bend to new online market rules
(CN) — European Union rules meant to rein in the dominance of Big Tech kick in on Thursday, opening a new chapter in the bloc’s attempts to tame the internet and take on American and Chinese giants....
View ArticleCopernicus: February marked 9 months of record temperatures globally
(CN) — Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth month in a row of record heat, the European Union’s climate change agency said Thursday. For the past year the planet has been...
View ArticlePortugal elections: Far-right vote surges, center right set to take over from...
(CN) — Portugal was one of the last places in Europe where the far right wasn’t a factor. That ended on Sunday. In a stunning result coming 50 years after the fall of the Portugal’s fascist...
View ArticleSpanish parliament moves to grant amnesty to Catalan separatists
(CN) — Spain’s parliament on Thursday narrowly passed a controversial bill to grant amnesty to secessionist Catalan politicians and activists. The bill’s passage in the Congress of Deputies, Spain’s...
View ArticleRussians go to the polls amid war, growing enmity with Europe
(CN) — With the war in Ukraine turning in their country’s favor, Russians began voting Friday in what are seen as rigged presidential elections guaranteed to keep Vladimir Putin in power and deepen...
View ArticlePutin reelected in landslide; West blasts election as illegal
(CN) — Vladimir Putin was reelected for six more years as Russia’s president on Sunday in an election that Western leaders called neither fair nor free. The outcome was no surprise and Putin’s critics...
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US, EU move to back immediate cease-fire in Gaza war
(CN) — The United States and the European Union on Thursday moved to call for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in a bid to halt the fighting in Gaza and ease the humanitarian...
View ArticleKremlin says Russia at ‘war’ with the West in Ukraine
(CN) — The conflict in Ukraine veered toward another major escalation on Friday after the Kremlin for the first time said it was at “war” with the West and European Union leaders pushed ahead with...
View ArticleRussia’s war against Ukraine set to get more brutal after Moscow terrorist...
(CN) — Russia’s war aims against Ukraine are likely to become even more brutal and aggressive after the Kremlin linked Kyiv to the concert hall attack outside Moscow that killed at least 139 people...
View ArticleEU probes Google, Apple, Meta for breaches of new online market rules
(CN) — European Union regulators on Monday launched probes into whether Apple, Google and Meta are violating the bloc’s tough new rules to combat the anticompetitive practices of Big Tech. The...
View ArticleGreek PM embroiled in scandal over doctored audio in deadly 2023 train disaster
(CN) — Opposition parties in Greece are demanding answers — and the resignation of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis — amid a scandal over accusations of a government cover-up in a 2023 train...
View ArticleErdoğan suffers worst election defeat since coming to power in 2003
(CN) — In the biggest election defeat since coming to power 21 years ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s conservative Islamist party was trounced in municipal elections that took place...
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Europe and its angry farmers: A story as old as the EU
(CN) — Tractors blocking roads and laying siege to government buildings. Cow dung and animal herds turned into weapons of protest. Sign-waving farmers seething against change and global markets....
View ArticleNATO marks 75th anniversary with vows of support to Ukraine
(CN) — In celebrating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the NATO treaty on April 4, 1949, the military alliance on Thursday vowed to increase its support to Kyiv and said it was determined to...
View ArticleRussian forces move on Chasiv Yar, new battleground in intensifying Ukraine war
(CN) — With the onset of warmer weather in Eastern Europe, Russia is intensifying its assault on Ukraine with nightly missile and drone strikes on infrastructure and military targets, likely in...
View ArticlePoland, Slovakia ballots signal trouble ahead for pro-EU forces in European...
(CN) — Voters in Slovakia and Poland over the weekend delivered a foretaste of what to expect in European Union elections this June: a strong showing for parties critical of the policies coming from...
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