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The presence of Rusal, the aluminium producer that owns Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina refinery, illustrates the contradictions at the heart of Europe’s sanctions policy and raises difficult questions about strategic dependence, industrial competitiveness and geopolitical risk.
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@AdaLluch Welcome to the club, Ada!

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Ukraine and Moldova have moved closer to the next formal stage of EU accession talks after all 27 member states agreed to open negotiations on the first cluster of issues, ending a blockage that had delayed progress in both countries’ membership bids.
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A new Hungarian investigation has alleged that former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally ordered the March raid on a Ukrainian bank convoy carrying cash and gold from Austria to Ukraine, in an operation that became one of the most contentious episodes in recent Hungarian-Ukrainian relations.
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The European Union’s fragile trade understanding with the United States has come under renewed pressure after Washington proposed additional tariffs on imports from 60 economies, including the EU, citing alleged failures to prevent goods made with forced labour from entering global supply chains.
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Gulf hostilities push oil higher as Europe faces renewed energy-security pressure https://t.co/k3KhXP78a8 via @EU_Global_News

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Greece has issued a formal diplomatic protest to Ukraine after an explosive maritime drone was discovered near the Ionian island of Lefkada, in an incident that has raised concern in Athens over the possible spread of the war at sea into the Mediterranean.
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Poland has formally proposed the creation of a new permanent United States military base on its territory, as Warsaw seeks to reinforce the American military presence on NATO’s eastern flank amid uncertainty over future US deployments in Europe.
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Russia pressures Armenia as EU pivot turns South Caucasus into another fault line https://t.co/DZFXpZGdXA via @EU_Global_News

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Eurozone Economy Buckles Under Renewed Inflation Shock https://t.co/m2nc0i5D0N via @EU_Global_News

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NATO’s annual Baltic Sea naval exercise will begin this week at roughly half last year’s scale, underlining both the alliance’s continuing focus on the region and the pressure on Western naval resources from commitments elsewhere.
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Watch Live: Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
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As Russia’s political and business elite gathered in St Petersburg for the country’s flagship investment forum, Ukraine delivered a reminder that geography is no longer a reliable shield against the war.
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"scumbag" ?

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Well done, you mouth-breathing cretins. And well done to all the pricks on social media who have done nothing but race-bait over this tragedy. Shameful across the board.

As a psychologist, I’ll bet you £100 this is what happened with poor Henry Nowak. Cops suffer from empathy burn out. 90% of the time they deal with nothing but scum. It doesn’t make it right, but that cynicism will have come into play, here.

They get a 999 call saying, “A Sikh has been attacked.” They arrive at the scene, there’s a Sikh saying he’s been attacked and someone (Henry) acting strangely. The weapon has been hidden. They will have immediately thought ‘drink or drugs’, and they see no obvious wounds. The murderer laid on exactly the scene the police would have expected to see, had the complaint been genuine.

These are pure human confirmation and anchoring biases at play: the cops saw what they expected to see from the info they had going into the situation. They were tricked. Humans make mistakes.

Where the cops royally fucked up was not following normal procedures when someone says they have been stabbed, and checking them all over including skin. They should lose their jobs over that negligence alone and for allowing their biases to override their training.

I guarantee you “I can’t breathe” inadvertently made things worse as that’s what every single scumbag says when they get arrested, since George Floyd.

This absolute tragedy is a sad combination of confirmation and anchoring biases, excessive cynicism, and a criminal failure to follow correct procedures, not to mention a lying, murdering piece of shit and his piece of shit family doing everything they could to confuse the police and muddy the waters. It has nothing to do with diversity.

Henry Nowak should not have died at all, but he would have died whatever the police did. However, in these circumstances he should have died with someone holding his hand, trying to save him, and telling him it would be ok, not in handcuffs being read his rights. The police officers who made this dreadful error should lose their jobs and will have to live with that for the rest of their days.

Final point: well done to the Hants Police detectives who shredded the murderer’s story and secured a conviction.

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France has announced €93 billion in foreign investment pledges, with artificial intelligence and data-centre infrastructure at the centre of President Emmanuel Macron’s latest effort to position the country as Europe’s main hub for computing power.
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France’s decision to restrict Israel’s official participation at Eurosatory 2026 has turned one of Europe’s largest defence exhibitions into a test of how military trade, diplomacy and political pressure now intersect.
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Russia’s latest mass missile and drone attack on Ukraine has again placed NATO’s eastern air-defence posture under scrutiny, after Poland activated military aviation and air-defence systems while Ukrainian cities came under one of the largest combined strikes of recent months.
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