Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the plan in her State of the Union speech and the Commission published the bill the next day. All 27 member states still have to agree, which could take years and sets up a fresh fight with Washington and Big Tech.
Lee Jae Myung said Seoul will instead consider expanding its anti-piracy naval unit off Somalia and may offer patrol aircraft, mine-disposal teams and supply ships. He also said he will not seek a second term and that the $350 billion U.S. investment deal is close to done.
Ulf Kristersson asked to be relieved of office so the speaker can start building a new government. Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats are the largest party with 99 seats, but her four-party bloc disagrees on taxes, nuclear power and who gets a cabinet seat.
Nobody will say where the aircraft went down or which variant they were. Central Command declined to comment.
Canada sends 70% of its exports to the U.S. Carney told lawmakers in Strasbourg that when countries negotiate alone with a dominant power, 'we negotiate from weakness.'
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is nearly a year old and Israeli strikes are still killing people there. The Palestinian president will again have to address world leaders by video from Ramallah.
The al-Zara mine is in territory held by the Rapid Support Forces, which smuggle Sudan's gold abroad to fund their war. Dozens of miners are still missing.
The State Department has already admitted more than 7,700 white Afrikaners as refugees while shutting the program to almost everyone else. South Africa's foreign minister blamed 'fringe groups' for misrepresenting the country's laws to Washington.
The UN says about 400 of the roughly 2,000 damaged buildings that displaced families are living in across Gaza are at risk of falling down. Egypt sent heavy machinery; Gaza's civil defense director said 'we are still hearing voices from under the rubble.'
John Coale's deals with Alexander Lukashenko have now produced about 500 releases since last year. Viasna counts 912 political prisoners still behind bars, and opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says new arrests continue as fast as the old ones are freed.
The package of 20,000 Mk-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s has been informally notified to Congress and would dwarf last year's $2.04 billion deal. It comes with a fragile ceasefire in Gaza still nominally in place and Israeli strikes continuing.
Ten days after the AfD took 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, the chancellor's party is polling at 7% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and 78% of Germans say he is the wrong man for the job. Two more state votes come Sunday.
Air-raid alerts sounded in Islam's holiest city for the first time in the war. Brent crude is above $100, a key Saudi pipeline has reportedly been shut for weeks, and the U.S. told Americans to reconsider travel to the kingdom.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers held Thaci and three other KLA commanders responsible for 96 murders during the 1998-99 war but acquitted them of crimes against humanity. Prosecutors had asked for 45 years.
Seventy percent of Canadian exports still go to the United States. Ottawa is exploring visa-free living and working rights in Europe and an 'Alliance for the Future' covering defense, minerals, AI and the Arctic.
Denmark summoned Moscow's ambassador and called the Admiral Kasatonov's action 'reckless.' Hours later, an Italian NATO jet shot down a drone over Lithuania that likely came from Belarus.
The Colombian businessman admitted skimming at least $195 million from six Venezuelan food-import contracts with 'the approval, participation and protection' of top officials. Maduro himself is awaiting trial in Manhattan after his capture in January.
ProRail called it 'sabotage of the railway infrastructure' after safety systems failed at more than 30 locations and a train struck one of the pipes at Steenwijk. By afternoon, hay bales were burning on three motorways, a tactic linked to farmer protests.
The shooting happened Friday night in the Maphiveni area near the Mozambique border, during an anti-smuggling operation by Africa's last absolute monarchy. Both Americans had 'minor injuries,' the government said, and an investigation is underway.
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin agreed that 'no Westminster government has the right to block democracy.' Prime Minister Andy Burnham says referendums on Scotland and Northern Ireland are 'off the table.'
WatchUkraine's rail operator says it is 'highly probable' the intended target was the diplomatic train carrying Johnson, Carl Bildt and EU security advisers home from a Kyiv conference. Nobody was hurt. The strike came inside a 453-drone overnight barrage that killed six people across Ukraine.
The Bundibugyo virus has reached 62 of 167 health zones in seven provinces four months after it was declared. Africa CDC says a few hot spots in Ituri are finally dipping.
The U.N. sanctions committee denied Austria's request to exempt Mohammad Eslami from the travel ban that snapped back last year. Tehran called it 'a serious breach' of its rights and summoned Austria's envoy; Russia said Vienna 'grossly violated' its duties as host.
With the United States still taking about 72% of Canadian exports and 50% Trump tariffs in place, Ottawa is exploring a status that does not yet exist. Germany's Friedrich Merz floated the same 'associate member' idea for Ukraine earlier this year.
Iran's briefing for Gulf foreign ministers on how it plans to manage Hormuz shipping was called off hours later. Oman said the delay was 'in the interests of consensus.' Trump said the war will end 'right after the midterms.'
The energy minister blamed the U.S.-Iran war and said the increase is temporary. Syria pumps about 102,000 barrels a day and burns 325,000. Monitors say security forces fired live rounds to clear at least one road.
WatchThe Virgo Transport 8 was floating upside down when search aircraft found it. Its captain had reported 10-foot waves and a list minutes before contact was lost.
Magdalena Andersson's four-party opposition holds a hair-thin lead over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc. In 2022 an exit poll showed the same thing, and the right won.
Prosecutors say 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses are under investigation across 15 provinces. Dozens of websites were blocked, and the EU's Turkey rapporteur called it 'a shocking escalation.'
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wants to bring the Sweden Democrats into government for the first time. The last polls put Magdalena Andersson's center-left bloc narrowly ahead, 50.8% to 47.6%, with the gap closing.