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How far has Spain moved past Catalonia's secession crisis? Voters will decide in regional election
BARCELONA, Spain — Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday’s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region. The image plays on another one imagined from six years...
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Ukrainian’s Zelenskyy fires head of state guard over assassination plot
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the head of the state guards following allegations that two members were involved in a plot to assassinate the embattled Ukrainian head of state. Zelenskyy dismissed former leader of the state guards Serhiy Rud on Thursday, after the state security...
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North Macedonia elects first woman president
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, center top, and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, (center bottom), attend a celebration on the main square after their party announced victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, in...
photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski
Steven Seagal attends Putin inauguration, faces EU sanctions
In this undated photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American action movie actor Steven Seagal visit a newly built sports complex of Sambo-70, a prominent wrestling school in Moscow. (Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) Martial arts performer Steven Seagal may face sanctions from the...
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Europe Day marks 1 month till EU elections. Rise of hard right, wilting of Green ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate...
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Advancing in Ukraine, Russia marks victory in World War Two
Local residents sit on a bench near an apartment building destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. File/Reuters Russia on Thursday marked the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two as relations with the West spiral...
photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky
Xi’s visit a hard reality check for EU-China relations
President Xi Jinping’s European tour, his first in five years, has shown how much EU member states, at least those in the core of Europe, need a reality check. Not only has Xi taken quite some time to visit the continent but in doing so he chose to visit his staunchest European allies, Serbia and...
photo: AP / Darko Bandic
Germany calls for preventing further escalation of Gaza war
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Wednesday for preventing a further escalation of the Gaza war after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Pistorius said he agreed with Guterres that everything must be done to alleviate or end the humanitarian misery of the...
photo: UN / Manuel Elías
What are the EU elections and why do they matter?
Up to 450 million citizens in the EU’s 27 member states will go to the polls between 6 and 9 June to elect more than 700 members of the European parliament, the world’s only directly elected transnational assembly. The European parliament elections – more commonly called the European elections...
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Italy’s premier meets NATO head to prepare for next summit, address key issues
NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Wednesday to discuss preparations for July’s summit in Washington DC, including ways to further strengthen the alliance, achieve...
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