THE TIME TRAVELLER 1. Friedrich Merz. Friedrich Merz wishes he owned a time machine. The head of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union doesn’t much care for what his longtime rival, Angela Merkel, did during her time as chancellor.Merz believes his predecessor as party leader committed major blunders when she phased out the country’s nuclear power plants following the 2011 ...

Feb 22, 2024 · Ukraine has an ambitious military goal for this year — hold on. It's the third year of the country's full-scale war with Russia and a decade since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea and set off a conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Nov 21, 2024 · Ukraine's former military Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said that the direct involvement of Russia's autocratic allies in its war on Ukraine means that World War III has started.

Jun 16, 2024 · “I will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect,” said Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S. election.. Ukraine’s Western allies have been working to secure long-term assistance for Kyiv amid fears that Trump’s potential reelection could curtail U.S. support. The Biden administration last week extended long-term security guarantees to Ukraine.

Nov 6, 2024 · Trade “America First” will again sum up Trump’s approach to trade policy. He’s vowed to bring back jobs to the U.S. and punish friends and foes with across-the-board tariffs of 10 or 20 percent (and up to 60 percent on goods coming from China), despite economists’ warnings of a detrimental impact on U.S. economic growth and higher costs for consumers.

Dec 31, 2024 · A separate meeting in the Belgian capital at the beginning of February will focus on security, while Brexit Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds is planning to meet his EU counterpart Maroš Šefčovič roughly every two weeks — as negotiations enter what he calls a “new phase.”

Dec 8, 2024 · KYIV — Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in action and 370,000 more were wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in Kyiv's first disclosure of total casualty figures in the the nearly three-year conflict.. Zelenskyy announced the figures in a Telegram post on Sunday after United States ...

Nov 25, 2024 · “We have been observing aggressive actions by the Russian intelligence services for some time now,” said Thomas Haldenwang, who recently stepped down as president of Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency.

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Jan 3, 2025 · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has canceled engagements in the coming days after contracting pneumonia. Her illness was confirmed by a Commission spokesperson on Friday, who added that she would not be attending a Polish EU presidency inauguration event.