President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) arrive for the official Group of Seven summit welcome ceremony at…
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Passengers to enjoy cleaner travel between UK and Europe
- world’s first ‘green shipping corridors’ to be created between the UK and Europe, accessing prime destinations like Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen and Dublin
- up to £9 million investment to decarbonise shipping and…
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The rising threat of synthetic opioids in Europe
Host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Alex Stevens, criminology professor at the University of Sheffield, about the emerging threat of synthetic opioids in Europe, particularly fentanyl and nitazenes. Stevens argues that the greater…
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Understanding Türkiye’s Entanglement With Russia
This paper is part of a series of four publications in a project run by the Carnegie Endowment’s Türkiye and the World Initiative, analyzing the forces at play in the Euro-Atlantic area since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on…
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The Impending Betrayal of Ukraine
The new NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, lost no time in visiting Kyiv after he assumed office, where he ‘pledged continued support for Ukraine in its war with Russia’. Doubtless his words were sincerely intended, but he knows there are…
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National and transboundary contributions to surface ozone concentration across European countries
We analyze the country-level O3 production relative to the imported O3 over Europe. We begin with a detailed evaluation of the simulated O3 over Europe. The source contribution results are introduced with an overview of the mean contributions…
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Ukrainian journalist who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison
Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondent
BBCViktoriia Roshchyna was detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 in a part of Ukraine now occupied by Russian forces.
It took nine…
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Autocrats United: How Russia and Iran Defy the U.S.-Led Global Order
Few geopolitical alignments are more consequential to global security and world order than the Russia-Iran partnership of defiance. Tehran and Moscow are co-belligerents in two of the world’s deadliest conflicts—in Ukraine and Syria—and…
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Russia on ‘mission to cause mayhem’ on British streets, warns MI5 head
More than 750 Russian diplomats had been expelled from Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “the great majority of them” spies, Mr McCallum said.
This affected the Russian intelligence services’ capability, he explained, and added that…
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How Serious a Threat Is Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced imminent changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. Those changes, announced in public comments at the start of a Security Council meeting on September 25, amount to a lowering of the threshold for…
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