What fate awaits Ukraine? More war, partitioned land and internal strife
(CN) — A great uncertainty hangs over the great war in Europe, but one grim reality seems certain: The guns aren’t going quiet anytime soon. After 1,038 days of destruction and potentially 1 million...
View ArticleFar right on brink of power in Austria, 3 months after election win
(CN) — In a historic and troubling shift for Europe and Austria, Vienna on Monday was the scene of the unthinkable: Austria’s far-right party stood on the cusp of seizing the chancellorship for the...
View Article2024 fries records as the hottest — and first to burn through key global...
(CN) — The planet smashed heat records last year and ended up as the warmest year on record, top climate scientists in Europe and the United States confirmed Friday. “2024 was the warmest year in...
View ArticleTrump tells Davos elites tariffs will make US a ‘manufacturing superpower’
(CN) — President Donald Trump unloaded his “America First” agenda of punitive tariffs, climate denialism, deregulation and massive tax cuts onto the world stage Thursday in a speech to the World...
View ArticleIn Belarus, Lukashenko wins another ‘sham’ election
(CN) — In an election declared illegitimate by the West, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his rule for a seventh consecutive term on Sunday by winning nearly 87% of the vote in...
View ArticleSerbian PM resigns as anti-corruption protests intensify, imperiling...
(CN) — Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević resigned Tuesday in the face of tenacious student-led mass protests over a deadly concrete canopy collapse at a newly renovated train station last November...
View ArticleMeloni under investigation for release of wanted Libyan warlord
(CN) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and ministers in her government are under investigation by Italian magistrates for repatriating a Libyan army general wanted by The Hague for crimes...
View ArticleGermany’s firewall against the far right cracks but holds — barely
(CN) — Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic leader and possible next German chancellor, suffered a stinging embarrassment Friday when his move to pass a tough-on-immigration bill with the help of...
View ArticleEurope steels itself for Trump tariffs, danger of looming trade war
(CN) — European politics and stock markets were rocked Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump’s weekend threat to impose hefty tariffs on the European Union and the United Kingdom. Across Europe, stock...
View ArticleLa Niña offers 2025 no reprieve as January sets another heat record
(CN) — An unprecedented global heat spell extended into 2025 after last month became the warmest January ever recorded on the planet, despite the emergence of a La Niña weather pattern, according to...
View ArticleTrump reaffirms plan to ‘take over’ Gaza in spite of global condemnation
(CN) — Despite worldwide condemnation, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his idea to take over Gaza, relocate its Palestinian population and turn the strip into the “riviera of...
View ArticleFrom Beijing to the Balkans: Chinese-built highway in Montenegro expands Belt...
THE A-1 MOTORWAY, Montenegro (CN) — Milojko Spajić, Goldman Sachs alum and current prime minister of tiny Montenegro, is pushing ahead with the country’s controversial “highway to nowhere.” Short on...
View ArticleTrump team brings ‘America First’ agenda to Europe
(CN) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance landed in Paris on Monday and kick-started a momentous and difficult week for transatlantic relations with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete...
View ArticleEurope in crisis as Trump upends transatlantic alliance, prepares grand...
(CN) — “Europe’s nightmare.” That’s how the Economist magazine on Thursday summarized the past week, which saw U.S. President Donald Trump upend the transatlantic alliance with his stunning moves to...
View ArticleUkraine war anniversary exposes glaring US and EU divisions
(CN) — The deepening chasm between Washington and its European allies over the war in Ukraine was displayed with striking poignancy on Monday, the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of its...
View ArticleTrump’s protectionism threatens trade war with Europe — and poses risks for...
(CN) — Alongside a deep rift between U.S. President Donald Trump and Europe over the conflict in Ukraine and NATO, the risk of a sprawling and deeply damaging transatlantic trade war looms on the...
View ArticleZelenskyy cuts short White House visit after disastrous falling out with Trump
(CN) — In extraordinarily heated scenes inside the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued with U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in front of the world’s...
View ArticleEurope takes over Ukraine defense, talks of sending troops as peacekeepers
(CN) — Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office threat to abandon Ukraine, European leaders forged ahead on Monday with their own plans to continue arming Kyiv and even send troops to...
View ArticleTrump ends military aid to Ukraine; EU calls for $840B military boost
(CN) — In a bid to force Kyiv to sue for peace with Moscow, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stopped the delivery of military supplies to Ukraine, a decision that threatened to leave the...
View ArticleEurope on edge: Macron calls Russia a ‘threat’ as EU races toward massive...
(CN) — The European Union issued a call to arms on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron saying the bloc needed to back a massive boost in military spending to gird itself against the menace...
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