When does Putin feel the pinch?
Europe • Oct 23, 2025, 6:17 PM
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It's been a long seven days, even by Russia-Ukraine standards.
Last week at this time, the talk was of Tomahawks. But instead of delivering missiles, Donald Trump instead gave a closed-door earful at the White House to Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Then came talk of a mano a mano U-S-Russia summit in Budapest.
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How Belgium’s De Wever derailed the EU’s ‘insane’ €140B Ukraine loan plan
Europe • 9:54 AM
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The EU’s €140 billion loan for Ukraine remains stalled after Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever resisted plans to use frozen Russian assets to fund it. Belgium, home to most of those assets, warned of major financial and legal risks. At a Brussels summ
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Over the past decade, dismissed rape cases increased from 82% to 94 %, according to 2024 IPP report
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Hungary's Orban seeks to boost support, opposition holds rival rally on 1956 anniversary
Europe • 8:51 AM
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On Thursday, nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused the European Union of seeking to install a “puppet” government in Hungary, framing next year’s election as a decision between peace and a war that would mean “dying for Ukraine.” Addressing ten
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EU tasks Commission with Ukraine funding plan, eyes loan from frozen Russian assets
Europe • 8:27 AM
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EU leaders on Thursday asked the European Commission to prepare options to fund Ukraine for two more years, keeping open the possibility of a loan backed by frozen Russian assets. After a summit in Brussels, they deferred a final decision on the proposed
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Live: 'Coalition of the willing' eyes push to supply Ukraine more long-range missiles
Europe • 5:58 AM
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday hosts a meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, comprised of more than 20 Ukraine allies, in London, where he is set to call on Europe to supply Kyiv more long-range missiles. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr
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Lithuania slams airspace breach after two Russian jets enter its territory
Europe • 3:08 AM
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Lithuania summoned a Russian diplomat on Thursday to protest what it said was a brief incursion of two Russian military aircraft into its airspace. The defence ministry said a Sukhoi SU-30 fighter and an IL-78 tanker from Kaliningrad crossed 700 metres i
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