[ad_1] The European Commission wants to cut deals with private American space companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch cutting-edge European navigation satellites due to continued delays to Europe’s next generation Ariane rocket system. In a draft request to EU countries seen by POLITICO, the Commission is planning to askContinue Reading
[ad_1] BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is heading to China to represent Berlin, but she’ll likely have more explaining to do about Paris in the wake of French President Emmanuel Macron’s explosive comments on Taiwan. As Baerbock embarked on her two-day visit Wednesday evening, officials in Berlin wereContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BELFAST — He came, he saw … and he got the hell out as fast as he could. But Joe Biden’s brief visit to Northern Ireland across Tuesday night and Wednesday — 18 hours total, about half ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] DUBLIN — That didn’t last long. Joe Biden managed to tread carefully around historic and current political sensitivities during the first part of his trip to the island of Ireland this week, marking 25 years since the U.S.-brokered Good Friday Agreement sought to secure lasting peace for Northern Ireland.Continue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. There’s an Emmanuel Macron-shaped shadow hovering over this week’s U.S. visit by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In contrast to the French president — who in an interview with POLITICO tried to put some distance between the U.S.Continue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — China and other powerful countries need to step up to help steer the world away from a potentially “catastrophic” hunger crisis this year, the new head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said. Cindy McCain,Continue Reading
[ad_1] The Group of Seven richest countries set higher 2030 targets for generating renewable energy, amid an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s war on Ukraine, but they set no deadline to phase out coal-fired power plants. At a meeting hosted by Japan, ministers from Japan, the U.S., Canada, Italy, France,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Joe Biden is not someone known for his subtlety. His gaffe-prone nature — which saw him last week confuse the New Zealand rugby team with British forces from the Irish War of Independence — leaves little inContinue Reading
[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
[ad_1] LONDON — Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss will take a not-so-subtle swipe at Emmanuel Macron over his attempt to build bridges with Beijing. In a Wednesday morning speech to the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C. Truss will argue that too many in the West have “appeasedContinue Reading