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Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is promising a constitutional revolution to allow Germany to become Europe’s unlikely big spender — on arms and infrastructure — to contend with a new world order in which America is no longer a dependable ally.

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Every man in Poland will undergo military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong military to face off the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament today.

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Cracks are appearing in the European Central Bank's united front as the urgent need for cash to rearm Europe threatens to overpower legalistic and technocratic concerns about how the single currency should be managed.

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COMMENTARY: “You don’t have the cards,” Donald Trump taunted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Arguably, though, the US president is the one snatching away any cards Ukraine did possess, single-handedly pushing the country into its most perilous time since the all-out invasion began in February 2022.

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Romania, a country of 19 million people bordering Ukraine, is now at the center of a transatlantic dispute between allies of US president Donald Trump and European centrists who fear a crucial election is being manipulated by Moscow.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government expelled a British diplomat and the spouse of another today, after accusing them of spying.

It’s the twist in a long-running, tit-for-tat row between London and Moscow.

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🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow since the start of the war with Russia last night, hours before a delegation from Kyiv was due to meet with US officials for peace talks in Saudi Arabia.

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When it comes to spending on defense, who should contribute what is set to become a heated debate in France's parliament — and risks ending in deadlock.

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American, Portuguese and British authorities are investigating what caused a cargo ship to collide with an oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military off the coast of eastern England yesterday.

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Greenlanders will trudge across ice and snow to cast their ballots today in a parliamentary election.

Amid Donald Trump’s repeated threats to take over Greenland, the vote could be one of the most consequential in the island’s history.

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Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary were interrupted today after Ukraine launched a major wave of drone strikes against Moscow, just months after Budapest secured a sweetheart deal with Kyiv that allows it to keep buying supplies of fuel despite the invasion.

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Cybersecurity experts including the UK's former cybersecurity chief are pouring cold water over Elon Musk’s suggestion that a large-scale cyberattack on his social media site X came from Ukraine.

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OPINION: If we’re really standing with Ukrainians, our role is to support their choices. None of us may claim the right or authority to tell them when and what to surrender.

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After more than three years of war, Ukraine has agreed to a US proposal for an immediate ceasefire.

The 30-day truce will come into effect if Russia signs up to the same terms, according to a joint statement from the Ukrainian and American governments.

Here’s what we know so far about the proposed truce 👇

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The captain of a cargo ship which collided with a tanker containing US armed forces jet fuel in the North Sea is a Russian national, according to the ship’s owners.

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Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is highly unlikely to embrace a US-brokered ceasefire proposal that Ukraine has already endorsed, a former Russian diplomat warned today.

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🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Vladimir Putin tonight as the White House pushes the Kremlin to accept a Ukraine ceasefire agreement.

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🚨 BREAKING: Vladimir Putin has put heavy conditions on Donald Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire plan, threatening to stall progress toward any deal.

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While the issue of land was discussed during almost eight hours of talks with the US in Saudi Arabia earlier this week, Ukraine says that territorial concessions were not raised and remain taboo for Kyiv, a top Ukrainian official familiar with the negotiations told us today.

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