Rosen Zhelyazkov, the Bulgarian prime minister, resigned last week amid widespread protests across his country over the demand for better working conditions and the rejection of his 2026 budget proposal, which called for higher taxes and more government spending.
They may have only needed a pin, but the government of Lithuania last week declared a state of emergency after what some officials have called a series of hybrid attacks in the form of large balloons that have drifted from Belarus into the small country, which has resulted in airport delays and other safety risks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he would be willing to make some concessions to bring the war with Russia to an end by pausing Kyiv’s effort to join NATO, but said he still refuses to give up any land under the control of his forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will not agree with any ceasefire deal that calls for his country to give up the Donbas region to end the war, identifying such a demand as a red line.
The European Union (EU) announced last week that it will indefinitely immobilize $246 billion in frozen Russian assets, a step in eventually deploying the funds to pay for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.
Private tech companies were informed by New Delhi last week that they are now required to install a government security app called Sanchar Saathi into smartphones, as the country says it wants to crack down on fraud cases—drawing swift criticism from privacy advocates.
The German government last week approved its latest weapons project that will bring the country’s total military spending on weapons alone this year to just about $40 billion, as Berlin continues to lead the charge in Europe’s military buildup.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week and the two vowed to deepen their economic ties, despite pressure from Washington on New Delhi to abandon Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a realistic tone after a meeting with a delegation from the U.S. that included Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and placed blame on Europe for interfering with the peace process by refusing to acknowledge Russia’s demands to end the war.
Just a few months ago, European leaders tried to sell war with Russia by claiming that drones from Moscow were violating their airspace, and the situation was urgent because the Russians were using these violations to collect data to find weak spots.