Ursula von der Leyen, President of the Commission, began her speech this Wednesday in the European Parliament on the state of the Union by noting a contradiction: Europe is stronger than ever but, nevertheless, the feeling is quite the opposite. Pessimism seems to have…
From this Tuesday, China will subject certain groups to increased controls at its borders and airports. Particularly, people who are likely to pose a risk to “the industrial or technological security of the country.” Although these represent a tiny fraction of the 242 million Chinese citizens who left mainland China between January and August, some alarms have been raised.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed this Wednesday the creation of a “European Security Council,” a new mutual security alliance that unites EU member countries with Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, and other countries, which could function as a reduced NATO.
Denmark accused a Russian warship today of firing two flares at one of its military helicopters while it was monitoring the vessel in the Baltic Sea. According to the Danish armed forces, the incident occurred in international waters near the port of Gedser, located south of the island of Falster. Although one of the flares passed close to the helicopter, the attack caused no material or personal damage.
In a kind of historical regression, one of Vladimir Putin’s trusted men, his advisor Nikolai Patrushev, got involved this Tuesday in accusations and criticisms with the Polish authorities due to the latest incidents with Russian drones on the border with Ukraine and in Polish territory and assured that Poland would cease to exist “in two or three days” if this country attacked Russia.
The United States acknowledged this Monday for the first time that the U.S. Space Force has deployed “space control” weapons in orbit, a capability that, according to the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, is intended to defend U.S. forces against hostile actions from adversaries.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine accept the latest announcement from Donald Trump. The President of the United States said on Monday that Moscow and Kyiv had reached an agreement not to attack the enemy’s energy infrastructure, but by the night of this Tuesday, neither side had ceased such attacks. Russian drones hit two gas stations in Kyiv, while Ukrainian unmanned aircraft struck a Russian refinery in the Samara region.
The wedding party in the Bahamas of Donald Trump Jr., son of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the model Bettina Anderson was partly financed by the Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, close to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, according to the investigative media ProPublica revealed yesterday.
The general elections on Sunday in Sweden, whose counting has not yet finished, preliminarily grant the absolute majority to the bloc of center-left parties of the former Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, against the alliance of right-wing parties that supports the current ruler, the conservative Ulf Kristersson.
The media personality Jimmy Kimmel was unable to air last week his interview with the Democratic Senate candidate for Texas, James Talarico, due to what he denounced as “threats” from the Donald Trump Administration. The 20-minute interview was finally published on YouTube and is already the second most viewed video on the late night channel in 2026: double the live and delayed audience of the president’s speech at the Republican convention in Dallas. It is the second time the Federal Communications Commission has intervened to prevent the airing of a program with Talarico, something that also happened – with counterproductive results – in March with Stephen Colbert’s late night show.
