A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Vladimir Putin has already launched World War III and proposed ways to stop him. He also defined what victo

My regular update on war and great power competition. This week, diplomacy splutters, energy war, Russian mobilisation, StarLink and the Ukraine ground war, as well as my Big Five recommended reads.

The vision of a welfare community that provided the people with social security from ‘cradle to grave’ was largely realised in the period between 1945 and 1970. The development of a Norwegian welfare ...

Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

Defence minister rebuffs US president’s claim that Arctic islanders are ‘not being taken care of’ Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark has said, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he wants to acquire. “The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland,” the country’s defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told the Danish broadcaster DR on Sunday. Continue reading...

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Forty-year-old Jorrit Bergsma from the Netherlands, becomes the oldest ever speed skater to win Olympic gold in the men's Mass Start Speed Skating event.

As Russian tanks rolled over the border, rumors that Volodymyr Zelensky had fled Ukraine were rife. Then he posted a grainy video of himself standing in the dark in front of the presidency building.

As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Reports indicate that American investor Gentry Beach, known for his connections to former U.S. President Donald Trump, signed a deal last fall with Russia’s Novatek...

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The high-profile killings of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are only two among many

The abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war — beatings, torture, and extrajudicial killings — has been documented throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion. What has been harder to document is the chain…