Within a country’s territorial waters — defined under United Nations law as 12 nautical miles from land — “it’s more likely that there’s authority that the state could apprehend that vessel,” he said, including for environmental…
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How Spain’s economy became the envy of Europe
Guy HedgecoeBusiness reporter
Reporting fromSegovia, central Spain
Getty ImagesSpain attracts the second highest number of overseas visitors after France It’s a chilly mid-winter afternoon in Segovia, in central Spain, and tourists are gathered at…
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Looking at Trump, Europe’s far right vows to ‘reconquer’ the continent – POLITICO
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the…
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Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series – Mother Jones
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 30.J. Scott Applewhite/AP
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Trump administration ends Biden-era task force aimed at seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
The move to…
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How Putin, Xi and now Trump are ushering in a new imperial age
Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it should assume control of Greenland – one way or another. He has talked of Canada…
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Russia Welcomes USAID Cuts, Calls Agency ‘Machine for Interfering’
Russia on Thursday welcomed the new U.S. administration’s decision to shutter USAID as an independent agency, calling the humanitarian body a “machine for interfering” in global affairs.
U.S. President…
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Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia : NPR
A screen near the Energy Museum and Mindaugas Bridge indicates that on February 8 the Baltic States will disconnect from…
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‘Unacceptable’: European countries firmly reject Trump’s plan to take over Gaza
Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza and displace 1.8 million Palestinians to turn the devastated enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East” has been met with strong criticism and scepticism from European countries, which…
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Addicted to War: Undermining Russia’s Economy CEPA
Executive Summary
- Despite initial predictions that sanctions would cripple it, Russia’s economy has shown unexpected resilience, with a modest contraction in 2022 followed by growth in 2023 and 2024. Nonetheless, sanctions and the…
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