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Information The termination of the Ukraine-Russia gas transit agreement marks a significant shift in Europe’s energy landscape. Despite three years of war, gas flowed through Ukraine, but Gazprom halted supplies on January 1, 2025, after Ukraine refused to renew the contract. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it a defeat for Moscow and urged the U.S. […]

Information The European Commission has announced that Hungary will lose €1 billion ($1.03 billion) in European Union aid due to persistent rule of law breaches. This decision stems from Hungary’s failure to address EU concerns over corruption, conflicts of interest, and transparency in public procurement. The EU began “conditionality” proceedings against Hungary in 2022, which

Information Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, saw a massive protest on December 22, 2024, with approximately 29,000 people gathering to challenge President Aleksandar Vucic’s government. This demonstration followed seven weeks of sporadic protests across the nation, sparked by the Novi Sad railway station disaster in November, where a roof collapse killed 15 people. Protesters blamed the tragedy

Serbia monitors government critics with spyware A new report has found that Serbia’s intelligence agency installed spyware on the phones of journalists and activists. The news comes as protests are growing against the autocratic rule of President Aleksandar Vucic. Why the DRC sued Apple over ‘conflict minerals’ The Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Apple of

Information Elon Musk’s recent social media endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party sparked controversy among German politicians and public figures. Musk, on his platform X, asserted that “only the AfD can save Germany,” drawing support from Alice Weidel, the party’s co-leader and candidate for chancellor. Weidel praised Musk’s statement and pointed him

Information Swedish authorities joined Chinese investigators aboard the vessel Yi Peng 3 in the Baltic Sea to observe Beijing’s probe into two severed undersea telecom cables. These cables, connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in mid-November within Swedish territorial waters near Denmark. The Yi Peng 3, which had been tracked above

Information Russian authorities announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Uzbek national accused of assassinating Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of Russia’s radiological, chemical, and biological defence forces, and his adjutant Ilya Polikarpov. The attack occurred in a Moscow suburb when a remotely detonated bomb hidden in or attached to an electric scooter killed both men

Information TikTok has petitioned the US Supreme Court to block a federal law that requires its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a ban, arguing it violates the First Amendment rights of its 170 million American users. The law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, is set to take effect

Information Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, confirmed that the EU has sent an envoy to Damascus for talks with the interim government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group with roots in al-Qaeda. This move follows similar decisions by the US and the UK to engage with HTS as regional