In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.
Both sides say the other wants to engineer a nuclear disaster at Zaporizhzhia as Ukrainian forces look to recapture the power plant as part of their counteroffensive.
The Ukrainian advocacy group B4Ukraine revealed Western companies’ underlying hypocrisy, with some continuing to make billions even after pledging to leave—while most don’t even intend to—“further enabling Russia’s war of aggression.”
Due to the urgency of the national situation, Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel a long-awaited trip to Berlin. Once more, France’s diplomatic policy is affected by social unrest.
Despite the name, the new international body will not be able to prosecute the crime of aggression but is viewed as the first step toward creating another, Nuremberg-like war tribunal to put the entire Kremlin on the stand.
Spain’s EU Council Presidency was officially launched in Madrid, where both PM Sánchez and Commission President von der Leyen said they’d push through the Migration Pact regardless of Central European objections.
Advanced notice was able to nip violence in the bud in Brussels, but the rioting, inspired by events in France, has also spread to Switzerland and French Guiana.
Despite ample media publicity, Italy’s bungling new left-wing opposition leader Elly Schlein is making matters worse for the centre-left PD as party insiders fear their own Jeremy Corbyn moment and loss of working-class voters to the Right.
Spain’s president appears to be paying for his personal political travel expenses with taxpayer money.
Following the stunt, Sweden’s embassy in Iraq was stormed by a mob of protesters; governments of Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, and the UAE recalled their ambassadors from Stockholm; and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (ICO) called for Quran burning to be banned globally.
Ahead of October’s Bishops synod that is set to discuss priestly celibacy and the role of women, Pope Francis has announced his long time friend, liberal Archbishop Víctor Manuel Férnandez will become the head of the most important doctrinal institution in the Roman Catholic Church.
“There can be no sovereignty if you’re a colony,” Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said, calling Bosnia’s western supervision illegitimate and announcing a possible referendum on the region’s future, which could rip the country apart.
