2023’s most important election: Turkey

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. For Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, next month’s election is of massive historical significance. It falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s secular republic and, if Erdoğan wins, he will be empowered to put evenContinue Reading

Europe’s eastern half claps back at Macron: We need the US

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Stop driving Europe away from the United States, dismayed central and eastern European officials fumed on Tuesday as French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments continued to ripple across the Continent. Macron jolted allies in the EU’s eastern half afterContinue Reading

Defense Department detains hotel guest in training mix-up

[ad_1] “Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” an FBI said in a written statement. “Thankfully nobody was injured.” A call to the Department of Defense was not immediately returned. The Boston Police Department was calledContinue Reading

Finland is now officially a NATO member

[ad_1] BRUSSELS — Finland formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday, becoming its 31st member on the same day as NATO’s 74th anniversary. The country applied to join NATO last May in a foreign policy U-turn prompted by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Finland’s entry brings to the allianceContinue Reading

Olaf Scholz faces new probe over German tax fraud scandal

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germany’s center-right opposition wants to raise the heat on Chancellor Olaf Scholz by launching a parliamentary investigation into his alleged connection to a massive tax evasion scandal. The case — which dates back over five yearsContinue Reading

A wartime NATO struggles to replace its chief

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It’s the rumor inflating the Brussels bubble: The EU’s top executive, Ursula von der Leyen, could be crossing town to run NATO.  The rationale makes sense. She has a good working relationship with Washington. She is a formerContinue Reading