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Key takeaways from Xi Jinping’s European tour to France, Serbia and Hungary 2024-05-10
Al Jazeera

Chinese President Xi Jinping has concluded a five-day tour of Europe, after visiting France, Serbia and Hungary, where he touted Beijing’s vision of a multipolar world and held talks on trade, investments and Russia’s war in Ukraine. In France, President Emmanuel Macron feted Xi with gifts of luxury...

photo: OSCE

How far has Spain moved past Catalonia's secession crisis? Voters will decide in regional election 2024-05-10
Newsday

BARCELONA, Spain — Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday’s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region. The image plays on another one imagined from six years...

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Ukrainian’s Zelenskyy fires head of state guard over assassination plot 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the head of the state guards following allegations that two members were involved in a plot to assassinate the embattled Ukrainian head of state. Zelenskyy dismissed former leader of the state guards Serhiy Rud on Thursday, after the state security...

photo: Creative Commons

President Metsola in Ukraine on Europe Day (European Parliament) 2024-05-09
Public Technologies

) President Metsola's visit in Kyiv on Europe Day demonstrated the European Parliament's continued support and commitment to Ukraine and its European path. In Kyiv on 9 May 2024, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Denys...

photo: © European Union 2024 - Source : EP

North Macedonia elects first woman president 2024-05-09
Arab Times

Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, center top, and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, (center bottom), attend a celebration on the main square after their party announced victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, in...

photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski

Steven Seagal attends Putin inauguration, faces EU sanctions 2024-05-09
West Hawaii Today

In this undated photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American action movie actor Steven Seagal visit a newly built sports complex of Sambo-70, a prominent wrestling school in Moscow. (Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) Martial arts performer Steven Seagal may face sanctions from the...

photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool

Europe Day marks 1 month till EU elections. Rise of hard right, wilting of Green ... 2024-05-09
Wtop

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate...

Advancing in Ukraine, Russia marks victory in World War Two 2024-05-09
Gulf Today

Local residents sit on a bench near an apartment building destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. File/Reuters Russia on Thursday marked the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two as relations with the West spiral...

photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky

Xi’s visit a hard reality check for EU-China relations 2024-05-09
Asiatimes

President Xi Jinping’s European tour, his first in five years, has shown how much EU member states, at least those in the core of Europe, need a reality check. Not only has Xi taken quite some time to visit the continent but in doing so he chose to visit his staunchest European allies, Serbia and...

photo: AP / Darko Bandic

Germany calls for preventing further escalation of Gaza war 2024-05-09
Anadolu Agency

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Wednesday for preventing a further escalation of the Gaza war after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Pistorius said he agreed with Guterres that everything must be done to alleviate or end the humanitarian misery of the...

photo: UN / Manuel Elías