Five Europeans counties on Saturday accused Russia of ‘poisoning’ opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison using a ‘rare toxin’, almost two years after his death. Alexei Navalny had rallied hundreds of thousands across Russia in anti-Kremlin protests as he exposed the alleged ill-gotten gains of Putin’s inner circle before he died in 2024. (AFP file … Read more
POLITICIANS hate to admit when their pet projects are unravelling. So it is not surprising that on February 9th Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, rejected reports that a European effort to build a sixth-generation fighter jet is near collapse. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), which he conceived in 2017 with Angela Merkel, then Germany’s chancellor, … Read more
By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net After sitting out nine straight games and 25 of the last 27 in the 2025-26 NBA Regular Season due to a high left ankle sprain, Franz Wagner has been upgraded to questionable for the Orlando Magic ahead of their upcoming games against the Milwaukee Bucks at the Kia Center. The 24-year-old … Read more
If might makes right, and treaties and laws are “niceties,” as Stephen Miller, US President Donald Trump’s deputy chief-of-staff recently said, Europe—with its limited hard power leverage and preference for rules-based approaches—clearly has a problem. Certainly, the European Union remains one of world’s largest economic blocs and is also a regulatory superpower. Yet in the … Read more
Iran has declared European countries’ armies “terrorist groups”, its parliament speaker said Sunday, following the EU’s decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Members of Iran’s parliament dressed in IRGC uniforms, chant “Death to America” during a session in Tehran. (AFP) Lawmakers wore the green uniform of the Guards in … Read more