Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Slovakia's Fico Says the West Is Already at War With Russia, from Inside the EU

Speaking this week, July 2 -- For most European prime ministers, the question of whether the West is at war with Russia is one they have been carefully trained to avoid answering. Robert Fico does not... Read More


UK Forced Adoptions: Starmer Apologises, No Payments for 185,000 Survivors

LONDON, July 2 -- For decades, they were told to be ashamed. Unmarried mothers in postwar Britain who became pregnant at the wrong time, in the wrong circumstances, were institutionalized, coerced, an... Read More


UK Think Tank Calls to Double High Street Slot Tax. The Industry Says It Would Close Hundreds of Shops.

New Delhi, July 2 -- LONDON - A Category B gaming machine in a British high street betting shop generates roughly the same kind of problem gambling risk as its equivalent on an online platform. The ta... Read More


Betfred Fined £900,000 After UK Gambling Commission Finds Harm Monitoring Gaps

New Delhi, July 2 -- LONDON - In one case documented by the UK Gambling Commission, a customer was flagged for a safer gambling interaction after showing early warning signs of harm. The platform acte... Read More


Germany's Coalition Seals €10 Billion Tax Relief in Biggest Reform Push in Decades

New Delhi, July 2 -- The day-one sick-leave certificate is the reform German workers will notice first. The measure that will define this coalition for the next decade sits buried in paragraph 27 of W... Read More


Sunak's Former Aide Pleads Guilty to Betting on the 2024 UK Election Date

LONDON, July 2 -- The rooms Craig Williams entered in the weeks before Britain's 2024 general election were not ordinary. He was parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister - Rishi Sunak's p... Read More


Euro Area Inflation Falls to 2.8% in June, Led by Energy. The ECB Raised Rates Three Weeks Ago Because of Energy.

FRANKFURT, July 1 -- Annual inflation in the euro area fell to 2.8 percent in June, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat published Tuesday, dropping sharply from 3.2 percent in May and beating ... Read More


France Sets Presidential Election for April 18, 2027, With Runoff on May 2

New Delhi, July 1 -- France will hold the first round of its next presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a second round set for May 2 if no candidate wins an outright majority, government spoke... Read More


Ex-French Spy: Yermolayev Planned European Parliament Hearings on Ukraine Corruption Before Monaco Bombing

MONACO, July 1 -- A former French intelligence officer has said that Vadim Yermolayev, the Ukrainian-born tycoon critically wounded in a bomb attack at his Monaco residence last Sunday, had been explo... Read More


Six Killed in Shooting at Youth Welfare Center in Germany's Stade; Suspect Arrested

STADE, June 30 -- A gunman opened fire inside a youth welfare center in this medieval town on the lower Elbe on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others in one of the deadliest attacks G... Read More