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Senegal's new leader calls for 'rethought' relationship with EU 2024-04-23
Independent online (SA)

Senegal's new leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has called for a "rethought" relationship with the EU during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel. Faye, who was inaugurated as president on April 2, was elected on pledges of radical reform and promises to...

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North Macedonia to elect president after campaign focused on EU membership 2024-04-23
Ekathimerini

Voters go to the polls in North Macedonia this week for the first round of the presidential election — the seventh such vote since the small landlocked Balkan country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. Seven candidates are vying for the largely ceremonial position in...

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EU parliament to back ban on forced labour with eye on China 2024-04-23
Al Jazeera

European Union lawmakers are set to vote to ban products made using forced labour under a new law that has China in its sights, risking tensions with Beijing. The law to be voted on on Tuesday does not directly mention China, but many lawmakers hope it will be used to block imports from China...

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What Can We Learn From Our Forever War in Ukraine? 2024-04-23
Antiwar

> It has been a while since the United States won a war. It looks as though we are about to lose yet another one – the war in Ukraine. This is a proxy war justified as an effort to “weaken and isolate” Russia. Our strategic defeat in this effort now leaves us with three unpalatable alternatives. We...

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EU nations reluctant to share Patriot systems with Ukraine 2024-04-23
Press Telegram

By Lorne Cook | Associated Press BRUSSELS — European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems gave no clear signal on Monday whether they might be willing to supply them to Ukraine, which is desperately seeking at least seven of the missile batteries to help fend off Russian air...

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Poland ready to host NATO nuclear weapons - president 2024-04-22
RTE

Poland's president Andrzej Duda said his country is ready to host NATO's nuclear arms after Russia reinforced its armaments in neighbouring Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Poland, a NATO member and a staunch supporter of Ukraine, shares a border with both the Kaliningrad exclave and...

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Ukraine will not be the second Afghanistan, says Zelensky 2024-04-22
Khaama Press

Following the approval of the US military aid package, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine would not become “another Afghanistan.” Sky News recently cited the Ukrainian President, stating that the United States is...

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EU foreign ministers to discuss air defense for Ukraine, Iran sanctions 2024-04-22
LBC International

European Union foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss bolstering Ukraine’s air defenses and expanding sanctions on Iran. While the ministers will also discuss the war in Sudan, most of their focus will be on the conflicts raging on the 27-member bloc’s eastern and...

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Europe endured record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days in 2023 2024-04-22
Al Jazeera

Europe is increasingly facing bouts of heat so intense that the human body cannot cope, climate monitors have warned. The continent endured a record number of “extreme heat stress” days in 2023, the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization...

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Meloni and Le Pen’s Contentious Relationship Keeps the Far-Right at Bay in the EU 2024-04-22
OWP

With the European parliament elections coming up in June of 2024, the rift between french politician Marine Le Pen’s far-right party and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s nationalist party could slow the conservative party’s goals of gaining power in the EU. According to an article by Reuters,...

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