The Rijksmuseum bills the Standard Bearer, a self-portrait in which “one can feel the courage, swagger and rebelliousness bursting from the canvas!” as one of Rembrandt’s key works.
Warsaw is putting its foot down. “We will not pay for the mistakes of European multicultural policy. We know how to distinguish solidarity from coercion and dangerous ideological projects,” Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki said.
While Germany’s first-ever national security strategy remains cautious on the China question, it is considerably less so on the Russian one, naming Moscow the “most significant threat to peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area.”
During an otherwise peaceful demonstration in support of Belgium’s healthcare workers, it appears that one officer attempted to hit chairman Tom Van Grieken in the face, while a fellow MP claimed she had been kicked by another policeman after having fallen to the ground.
Forewarned by the Dutch of Ukraine’s intentions in June 2022, Washington in an attempt at dissuasion brought the matter to Kyiv’s attention. An intervention that failed since, in September that year, the pipelines were crippled regardless.
The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, a mass stabbing on a train where a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian killed a 17-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend with a kitchen knife.
Those who came to the UK illegally via small boats would, if their asylum claims are successful, be allowed to remain in the UK under the same set of rules as immigrants who arrive legally.
Even after Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as its leader, the Scottish National Party (SNP) still contends with embezzlement allegations naming Scotland’s former First Minister.
An FBI source claims that the U.S president and his son, Hunter Biden, had been paid $5 million each by the executive of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Thousands dislocated, the threat of disease, renegade landmines, agricultural fields lost to the water: Three days after Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam’s breach, the extent of the devastation is sinking in.
The joint U.S. and EU shot across Pristina’s bow came after last week’s flare-up of violence, when dozens of NATO soldiers were injured during fierce scuffles with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo.
While Moscow boasts major successes, claiming it repelled “large-scale” Ukrainian attacks in the southern Donetsk region, Kyiv chooses to play things close to its chest.
