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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilize €210 billion of Russian assets
STRASBOURG — The European Union has agreed to indefinitely immobilize the assets of the Russian Central Bank, a central element of the reparations loan to Ukraine, still under intense negotiations ahead of a make-or-break summit next week.By doing so, the EU locks in the assets under its jurisdiction for the foreseeable future amid fears that the United States might seek control of the Russian funds and use them in a future settlement with Moscow to end the war.The long-term immobilization was agreed by ambassadors on Thursday afternoon under Article 122 of the EU treaties, which only requires a qualified majority from member states and bypasses the European Parliament.The law prohibits the transfer of the €210 billion in assets back to the Russian Central Bank. The bulk of the assets,...
December 12, 2025

EU agrees to indefinitely immobilize €210 billion of Russian assets

A view of the Austrian parliament in Vienna
Austria's parliament passes law banning headscarves for schoolgirls under age of 14
VIENNA — Austria's parliament passed a law on Thursday banning schoolgirls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf.The coalition government, made up of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and Neos, said the new law represents a "clear commitment to gender equality" and applies to girls in both public and private schools.Under the new law, all girls under 14 are forbidden from wearing what the government called "traditional Muslim" head coverings, which includes hijabs and burqas.If any student is found to have violated the ban, they must enter into discussions with the school authorities and parents or legal guardians.In the case of repeated violations, the youth welfare agency must be notified and families or responsible adults could be...
December 12, 2025

Austria's parliament passes law banning headscarves for schoolgirls under age of 14

A Ukrainian serviceman works with a ground-based robotic system during their training at an undisclosed location near the frontline in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 11 December 2025. — EPA
US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says
KYIV — The United States has suggested creating a “free economic zone” in parts of the eastern Donbas region from which Ukraine would withdraw under a negotiated peace with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.In wide-ranging comments to reporters, Zelensky said that Kyiv has presented the US with an updated version of a peace plan — “not a single document, but a set of documents,” many of which need to be finalized. He said the Trump administration wants a “full understanding” of the status of the plan by Christmas.Questions of territory remain unresolved, the Ukrainian leader said. “The Russians want the whole of the Donbas — but we, of course, do not accept this,” he explained. Russia has been fighting in the Donbas region, which spans the...
December 12, 2025

US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says

A student waves a Bulgarian flag as tens of thousands of Bulgarians gather in Sofia's central square, demanding the government's resignation, Sofia, 10 December 2025
Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests
SOFIA — Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned on Thursday after tens of thousands of Bulgarians joined protests across the country the night before, demanding that the government step down over allegations of widespread corruption."We hear the voice of the citizens, we must rise to the demands. Both the young and the old raised their voices in favour of the resignation. This civic position must be encouraged," Zhelyazkov said, announcing his cabinet's resignation at an extraordinary session in the National Assembly."However, a challenge lies ahead, the protests must convey what the profile of the government should be from this moment on," he added."Citizens must demand this from the leaders of the protest, this is a call for a government that builds on the achievements of the...
December 12, 2025

Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests

French anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci (centre) is mourning his brother Mehdi, who was murdered in Marseille
Panic in France as children fall victim to lethal violence of Marseille drug gangs
MARSEILLE — A group of children spotted Adel's body on their way to school, just as his parents were heading to the police station to report him missing. A grotesque, charred silhouette, reclining, with one knee raised, as if lounging on one of Marseille's nearby beaches.He was 15 when he died, in the usual way: a bullet in the head, then petrol poured over his slim corpse and set on fire.Someone even filmed the scene on the beach, the latest in a grim series of shoot-then-burn murders linked to this port city's fast-evolving drug wars, increasingly fuelled by social media and now marked by chillingly random acts of violence and by the growing role of children, often coerced into the trade."It's chaos now," said a scrawny gang-member, lifting his shirt in a nearby...
December 11, 2025

Panic in France as children fall victim to lethal violence of Marseille drug gangs

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine presents response to US peace plan
KYIV — Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the contours of a tenuous potential deal take shape and the US president continues to make clear he wants the conflict resolved quickly.Efforts to end the yearslong war have sharply accelerated in recent weeks. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested a solution could soon be “figured out,” telling reporters at the White House that “a lot of people say it’s closer than it’s ever been.”He said he “discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words” with his British, French and German counterparts, whom he said had floated the idea of Trump flying to Europe for a meeting, along with...
December 11, 2025

Ukraine presents response to US peace plan

Nicolas Sarkozy arriving at a book signing event on Wednesday
The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars
PARIS — Twenty days, 213 pages.For every 24 hours behind bars, Nicolas Sarkozy wrote more than 10 pages of his new book recounting his stint in Paris’ La Santé Prison.“It could have been a budget hotel, if you ignored the armored door with its eyehole,” the former French president recalls in the book, which hit shelves Wednesday, one month after he left jail on November 10.Prison was “hell,” Sarkozy writes in “Diary of a Prisoner,” which rides the waves of intense public interest and scrutiny around his September conviction for criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya.He was released early from his five-year sentence in November pending his appeal.The view out of his window was blocked by plastic panels, Sarkozy says of his time...
December 11, 2025

The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025
Daughter of Venezuela’s Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf
OSLO — The daughter of Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado spoke of the country’s fight for democracy as she accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on behalf of her mother, who was unable to attend the event in person.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who lives in hiding, had been expected to attend Wednesday’s acceptance ceremony in Oslo, in defiance of a decade-long travel ban placed on her.Statements on Wednesday suggested she would still be in Oslo at some point despite not attending the ceremony.In an audio recording released by the Norwegian Nobel Institute before the ceremony was due to start, Machado said, “I will be in Oslo, I am on my way to Oslo right now.”Earlier, her representatives said, “We confirm that she will not attend the Nobel...
December 10, 2025

Daughter of Venezuela’s Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

US President Donald Trump
US pounds the European Union in sharpest takedown yet as bloc mulls future of alliance
BRUSSELS — It's not a beating, it's a pounding.That's how one European diplomat described a week-long political hammering from the Trump administration directed straight at the European Union.First, a US government National Security Strategy warned that the bloc needs to either reverse course on a range of issues or risk "civilisational erasure", igniting a week of tensions.From Europe's international standing to entirely sovereign, domestic matters like migration and regulation, the Trump establishment has gone after the EU more sharply than ever. The question for Europeans now is whether the US remains a true ally.The campaign went global when Elon Musk, the world's richest man and owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, lashed out at...
December 10, 2025

US pounds the European Union in sharpest takedown yet as bloc mulls future of alliance

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine 'ready for elections' if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says
KYIV — Ukraine is "ready for elections", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid holding them.Zelensky's five-year term as president was due to end in May 2024, but elections have been suspended in Ukraine since martial law was declared after Russia's invasion.Speaking to reporters following Trump's comments in a wide-raging Politico interview, Zelensky said he would ask for proposals to be drawn up which could change the law.Elections could be held in the next 60 to 90 days if security for the vote was guaranteed with the help of the US and other allies, he said."I'm asking now, and I'm stating this openly, for the US to help me, perhaps together with our European colleagues, to ensure...
December 10, 2025

Ukraine 'ready for elections' if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says

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