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Fico Calls Demonization of Russia 'Unacceptable' at Slovak National Uprising Anniversary

BRATISLAVA, Aug. 30 -- At the 82nd anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising, Prime Minister Robert Fico used one of Slovakia's most politically weighted platforms on Saturday to make a pointed argu... Read More


FTSE Today - August 28, 2026

LONDON, Aug. 29 -- When Wall Street retreated on Friday after Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole speech pushed September rate hike odds to 48%, the FTSE 100 had a different calculation to make. The Lo... Read More


The Clause Keeping Europe's Border Queues Down Expires on September 6

BRUSSELS, Aug. 29 -- For most of this summer, the thing standing between a Schengen arrivals hall and a four-hour queue has been a clause. Regulation (EU) 2025/1534 lets a border post stop capturing f... Read More


German Cabinet Rejects Reports About Berlin's Plans to Finance UK Nuclear Weapons Program

Steffen Meyer, Aug. 29 -- The German government denied on Friday that Berlin was engaged in negotiations to help finance Britain's Trident nuclear weapons program, pushing back against a newspaper rep... Read More


Ukraine Says a Brigade Commander Took $270,000 Meant for Drones That Never Arrived

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- The paperwork said the drones had been delivered. The units that were supposed to fly them knew otherwise, and that is usually how these cases begin. former territorial defence ... Read More


Ratko Mladic, 'Butcher of Bosnia' Convicted of Genocide, Dies in Hague Prison at 84

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- THE HAGUE - The tribunal had said no just one day before he died. Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander convicted of genocide for ordering the execution of more than 8... Read More


Britain's Naval Chief Says JEF Can Move Before NATO Does. He Did Not Say Instead of It.

LONDON, Aug. 28 -- The advantage General Sir Gwyn Jenkins is describing is not firepower. It is permission. The First Sea Lord told The Times that the Joint Expeditionary Force, the ten-nation groupi... Read More


Harald V of Norway Dies at 89, and Sweden's King Mourns 'Our Dear Friend'

OSLO, Aug. 28 -- He was three years old when Norway stopped being safe, and the family that got him out went in two directions. His father and grandfather made for London to run a government in exile.... Read More


Berlin Weapons Cache Traced to a 24-Year-Old Ukrainian Courier, Der Spiegel Says

BERLIN, Aug. 25 -- He took the bus. On the first of October last year a 24-year-old man travelled from Poland to Berlin, walked to a roadside in the east of the city, collected two parcels, carried th... Read More


Germany's Foreign Minister Says Europe Does Not Have the Money for Ukraine's Weapons

BERLIN, Aug. 25 -- Johann Wadephul spent Saturday to Monday in Ukraine, went to Kharkiv, and came away saying the quiet part. Asked by Tagesschau what European governments could still do for Ukraine's... Read More