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Starmer Tells Ministers: Back Burnham and You're Out of the Government

LONDON, June 10 -- A prime minister who commands his party does not need to threaten it. That is the cruel arithmetic hanging over Keir Starmer's latest move, a plan to tell his remaining ministers th... Read More


Stubb Says Europe Must Open Diplomatic Channel With Putin as US Talks Stall

New Delhi, June 10 -- The man who runs Europe's longest land border with Russia said Wednesday what most of his European counterparts have been unwilling to say out loud: it is time to call the Kremli... Read More


Von der Leyen's Cabinet Is Writing Europe's Defense Strategy. Her Own Defense Commissioner Wasn't Invited.

BRUSSELS, June 10 -- Andrius Kubilius has spent the past eighteen months as the European Union's first-ever Commissioner for Defence and Space, giving speeches about a continent under siege, pushing a... Read More


Prabowo Plans Russia Visit for ASEAN-Kazan Summit as Indonesia Walks Its Tightrope

New Delhi, June 10 -- The invitation from Moscow was extended in April, at the Kremlin, when Vladimir Putin sat across from Prabowo Subianto and asked him to come back. On Wednesday, Jakarta said he l... Read More


Tommy Robinson Surfaces in Moscow With Elon Musk's Father, Promising Some Trouble

The video, June 10 -- Tommy Robinson, the most recognizable figure on Britain's far right, spent Tuesday evening in the bar of Moscow's Hotel Metropol filming himself with Errol Musk, father of the wo... Read More


Kallas Comes to Dublin to Ask Why Europe's Biggest Alumina Plant Still Feeds Russia

New Delhi, June 10 -- The European Union's chief diplomat arrived in Ireland on Tuesday carrying one of the more awkward questions in the bloc's sanctions arsenal: why Europe's largest alumina refiner... Read More


The Netherlands Kills a $115 Million American Tech Deal Because Washington Can't Be Trusted With Dutch Data

THE HAGUE, June 10 -- The Dutch government has blocked the American IT company Kyndryl from buying Solvinity, the cloud provider that hosts the digital identity system Dutch life runs on, in a veto th... Read More


Germany Already Had a Plan B: Airbus and Eight Defense Firms Submit Fighter Jet Proposal as Berlin Weighs Post-FCAS Path

New Delhi, June 9 -- The ink on the Franco-German fighter jet program's death certificate was barely dry when Berlin's plan for what comes next began to surface. On Tuesday morning, German Defense Min... Read More


Sudanese Man Held Over Attempted Beheading in North Belfast as Protests Loom

New Delhi, June 9 -- The video was already on phones across Northern Ireland before the Police Service of Northern Ireland had finished processing the scene. It showed a man straddling a victim on the... Read More


Zelensky Demands Europe a Real Voice at the Negotiating Table as Kyiv Courts Nordic-Baltic Allies

TALLINN, June 9 -- The real question Volodymyr Zelensky brought to Estonia on Tuesday was not whether Europe wants to be involved in ending the war. It is whether Europe will demand a seat at the tabl... Read More