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Reuters: Germany's army needs to more than double in size

10:38 25.09.2025

Reuters: Germany's army needs to more than double in size

Germany's army needs to add 100,000 active troops to its existing 62,000 to meet new NATO targets intended to boost preparedness for the growing threat of Russian aggression, its commander says in a confidential paper seen by Reuters. "It is imperative for the army to become sufficiently ready for war …

View from London: Europe’s reckless warmongering – “We have underestimated Russia”

10:36 25.09.2025

View from London: Europe’s reckless warmongering – “We have underestimated Russia”

The Cold War was a period of relative stability not only because of balance-of-power politics, but because politicians who experienced the horrors of the Second World War wanted to secure peace. Most of that generation is no longer with us. Today’s European elites have missed out on the opportunity to …

FORBS: Why sanctions have not stopped Russia’s economy

10:37 24.09.2025

FORBS: Why sanctions have not stopped Russia’s economy

U.S. sanctions have historically struck fear across global markets. Companies and countries scrambled to avoid being on the wrong side of Washington. Yet despite unprecedented measures against Russia, hundreds of billions of dollars in cross-border trade continue to flow. Why? While traditional banking channels were cut off, digital finance, payment …

France among six more countries to formally recognise Palestinian statehood

10:36 24.09.2025

France among six more countries to formally recognise Palestinian statehood

France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco join diplomatic push as Israel unleashes fierce attacks on Gaza, ‘Al Jazeera’ reports. The leaders of six countries, including France, have moved to recognise Palestinian statehood at a high-level summit ahead of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York. Alongside …

Reuters notes a diminished Western support for Ukraine

10:35 24.09.2025

Reuters notes a diminished Western support for Ukraine

The source said Ukraine not only faced setbacks on sanctions and reduced U.S. assistance, but could also lose some other allied support in Europe, Reuters reveals. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will seek more support from allies when he addresses the UN and meets Donald Trump this week, but behind the …

NYT: Putin proposes one more year of nuclear caps with U.S.

10:33 24.09.2025

NYT: Putin proposes one more year of nuclear caps with U.S.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Monday that he was prepared to extend existing limits on the number of deployed long-range nuclear weapons for one more year as long as the United States did the same, a move that could give Moscow and Washington time to negotiate a …

Bloomberg: From UK to Poland, Europe is becoming the ungovernable continent

9:44 23.09.2025

Bloomberg: From UK to Poland, Europe is becoming the ungovernable continent

Europe's leaders are struggling to govern due to strained budgets, glacial administration, and energized opposition from political extremes, Bloomberg stresses. Too many of Europe’s leaders just can’t get stuff done anymore UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron might be struggling most, but peers from the Hague …

Netanyahu asked U.S. to press Egypt on military build up in Sinai, but he’s got a military response

9:42 23.09.2025

Netanyahu asked U.S. to press Egypt on military build up in Sinai, but he’s got a military response

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Trump administration to press Egypt to scale down a recent military build-up in the Sinai Peninsula, one U.S. official and two Israeli officials tell Axios. Why it matters: Israeli officials say the Egyptian military build-up in Sinai has become another significant point …

POLITICO: Starmer and Trump's united front cracks on subject of Russia-Ukraine war

9:41 23.09.2025

POLITICO: Starmer and Trump's united front cracks on subject of Russia-Ukraine war

For all their declarations of mutual admiration and close alignment, President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer were unable to maintain a united front on the war between Russia and Ukraine, POLITICO notes. The two leaders both insisted they want a ceasefire but were at odds over the …

View from USA: Russia hopes its ‘Intervision’ song contest will be ‘Eurovision’ without the ‘woke’

9:38 23.09.2025

View from USA: Russia hopes its ‘Intervision’ song contest will be ‘Eurovision’ without the ‘woke’

For Europe – along with a handful of other countries – the annual international song competition has long been Eurovision: a contest among dozens of musicians in a glitzy spectacle that draws more than 150 million watchers. But for Russia, Eurovision has been off the table since 2022, when it …

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