Black Smoke Emerges from Sistine Chapel
No cardinal has yet been chosen to succeed the late Pope Francis; voting will resume tomorrow.
No cardinal has yet been chosen to succeed the late Pope Francis; voting will resume tomorrow.
Al-Sharaa confirmed that his country is also indirectly negotiating with Israel to ease tensions between the two nations.
“It’s absurd you’ve had this war going on for too long and the two sides aren’t even talking constructively about what would be necessary for them to end the conflict,” the VP said.
We are “even bigger” than the U.S., the chancellor said, referring to Europe’s consumer market, which surpasses that of North America.
“Schengen must live!” Luxembourg’s interior minister commented, concerned about the impact on his country’s many cross-border commuters
The new Syrian leader has well-known ties to terrorist groups—yet Paris is now backing him, apparently hoping he’s had a change of heart.
Novo Nordisk CEO says the company will abide by U.S. laws in its American operations but not otherwise stray from its diversity goals.

Forget the € 40 billion military aid—the EU couldn’t even collect the two million artillery shells it promised to deliver as a gift while protesting Moscow’s military parade.
The Kremlin said Moscow-Beijing relations are “at their highest point,” with both leaders reaffirming their alliance.

Even the Commission knows the current energy model is failing, but while they stay silent, European families pay the price.
At least 11,000 have landed in 2025 to date, meaning that more people are coming in at a faster rate than ever.
The move is part of a broader effort by the political establishment to sideline dissent and preserve the status quo.
The data protection watchdog says “TikTok did not address potential access by Chinese authorities to EEA personal data.”
A razor-thin by-election win marks a major blow to the establishment parties, and there are many more Reform gains to come.
The move comes as AfD tops the polls and the majority of Germans are fed up with the ostracizing of the populist party.
Other major parties have kept surprisingly quiet despite the scale of the crisis.
Farage’s party has overturned a huge Labour majority in its former stronghold of Runcorn and Helsby.
The Swedish police arrested a man in his twenties on suspicion of murder and two others suspected of incitement to murder on Thursday.
NPR and PBS have fueled partisanship and left-wing propaganda with taxpayer dollars,
If the SPD and CDU can barely muster a majority even when combined, it’s because they’ve lost the ability to genuinely represent majority concerns.
The tone shift may open the door for negotiations between D.C. and Beijing.
The cardinals will vote for the next leader of some 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide.