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Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’ Sees Cardinal Given Five-and-a-Half-Year Jail Sentence

Posted by Erika Dyre
January 5, 2024

A multi-million-pound investment in a luxury property in London that went wrong, a once powerful Vatican cardinal secretly recording a conversation with the pope...

Rapid Coal Phase-Out in the Western Balkans is Far From Impossible

Posted by Axel Daube
January 4, 2024

Starting next year, a substantial number of lignite power plants in the Western Balkans will breach compliance with the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive....

Norway Makes Surprise Rate Hike

Posted by Liona Jensen
January 3, 2024

Norway’s central bank surprised markets by raising its key policy rate Thursday, saying that a final hike in the current cycle was needed to...

Inside the US Army’s Failed Nuclear Ice Lair in Cold War Greenland

Posted by Helmi Gunnora
January 2, 2024

As Soviet ICBM tests and the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s added intensity to the Cold War, the United States turned its attention...

Russia Enters Christmas With Rocket Splash-Down Next to Norway’s Vardø Radar

Posted by Aimo Boden
January 1, 2024

“Tempo danger area” reads the Notice to Airman (NOTAM) issued by Russia for a nearly 90 km north-south stretch in the outer Varanger fjord...

Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Dismantle Hamas After 3 Hostages Mistakenly Killed

Posted by Haldis Gyda
December 31, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a TV news conference Saturday that the accidental killings of the three Israeli hostages by Israeli troops Friday...

Four Arrested in Denmark, Netherlands On Suspicion of Planning Terror Attacks

Posted by Githa Freya
December 30, 2023

Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was not changing the terror threat level,...

Carbon Border and Western Balkans – Barrier or Bridge to EU?

Posted by Christoffer Dahl
December 29, 2023

That’s it, finally: the CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism of the EU is established. The goal: not to import CO2 “for free” when...

A Tit-for-Tat with Uncle Sam: China Puts the Screws on Exotic Mineral Exports

Posted by Kaya Lundy
December 28, 2023

Brussel, Frankfurt (16/11 – 23) A levying of embargoes and export bans, the imposition of sanctions, erection of fearsome “license” (= restriction) protocol: there’s...