Red carpets laid out for the Chinese leader at the White House. The areas on which agreements will be negotiated, from Pyongyang to AI

The EU has lifted sanctions against the oligarchs Usmanov and Fridman following pressure from Slovakia, France and Luxembourg. The two will be able to return to European territory and recover billions of euros in frozen assets. Kyiv’s protest and Zelensky’s unheeded appeal

The Libyan general orchestrating the drone strikes in Zawiya, in western Libya. Allegedly, among those recruited were Spanish mercenaries and a senior manager from the oil company.

“The cultural elite now defines its entire moral outlook in terms of opposition to Jewish sovereignty. This takes us back to very dark times, when to be a ‘good person’ you had to be on your guard against Jews and be suspicious of their ways.” Interview with the British journalist and essayist 

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is France’s last outpost in North America, a strip of land inhabited by just under six thousand people that holds strategic importance for Paris. Trump’s expansionist ambitions and the French president’s response

In Portugal and Spain, the conservatives have seized upon an issue dear to progressives (women’s freedom) and have backed them into a corner. The same pattern is repeating itself in Italy with Meloni’s proposal. Will the Italian left manage to avoid falling into the trap?