Guy Hedgecoe
Business reporter
Reporting fromSegovia, central Spain
Getty ImagesIt’s a chilly mid-winter afternoon in Segovia, in central Spain, and tourists are gathered at…
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How Spain’s economy became the envy of Europe
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Russia’s Costly Conquest in Ukraine
Today, about 20 percent of southeastern Ukraine is under Russian occupation, including Crimea and large parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Russian President Vladimir Putin has painted the war in Ukraine as a…
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Italy says Paragon spyware targeted victims in dozens of European countries
Seven Italians and victims in more than a dozen other European countries were targeted with spyware as part of a broad hacking campaign revealed by WhatsApp on Friday, the Italian government said.
The country’s Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza…
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European countries reject Trump’s proposal of relocating Palestinians from Gaza
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Several European leaders on Wednesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to “take over” Gaza and forcibly resettle its Palestinian population in other countries.
Dismissing the proposal,…
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