Why Is ‘22 Proving To Be So Unpredictable? The Old Rules Don’t Apply
With midterms a few weeks away, the rule this year is that there are no rules. And the analytics political prognosticators use to predict elections are proving maddeningly [...]
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Putin’s Conscripts Will Suffer: Intelligence Assessment
The Kremlin acknowledged some of the mass shortcomings facing the 300,000 reservists it is calling up, expressing ‘hope’ the circumstances will [...]
EU extends protection for Ukrainian citizens
The special protection status for Ukrainian refugees will have to be extended for at least a year until March 2024. European Commissioner For Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said on Monday at the presentation of an online tool that refugees can use to look for a [...]
French drivers go to Luxembourg to fill the tank
Due to strikes at refineries in France, 20 percent of gas stations in the country are facing supply problems. The ANWB recommends filling up your car in Belgium or Luxembourg. The strikes, organized by the usually radical trade union CGT, at ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies refineries continue today, after the union [...]
Lucy partners with Transavia to build short-range EV-flight network
Airline Transavia is getting in with Lucy, a startup that wants to offer electric flights from 2025. Lucy starts with five-seater aircraft, which with a range of 250 kilometers can fly, for example, to Düsseldorf, Brussels, Strasbourg and [...]
Bettel announces three-day tripartite meeting
Prime minister Xavier Bettel (DP) and energy minister Claude Turmes (déi Gréng) on 2 September presented what future measures the government is considering to tackle the ongoing energy [...]
Robert Mardini meets ‘Women of Steel’ in Kyiv before heading to Russia
On August 31, a meeting of families of Ukrainian defenders with General Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Robert Mardini took place in [...]
Central Bank of Afghanistan funds will not be used to compensate 9/11 victims
Relatives of victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001 are not entitled to compensation from the Central bank of Afghanistan funds frozen by the United States. A judge in New York has ruled that he has no jurisdiction to do so. She refers the case to a higher [...]
‘Secret documents’ found at Trump estate
Former president Donald Trump had more than three hundred confidential documents in his house. Some of the papers were found early this year when Trump turned them over to the National Archives. The rest surfaced in June and during the search earlier this month. Meanwhile, Trump has sued the state for shutting down [...]
Legal battle over masks takes a new turn
The criminal investigation into Syd van Lienden, Camille van Gestel and Bernd Damme is moving abroad. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has seized bank accounts in Luxembourg and Switzerland of the trio and houses, cars and art and antiques here in the Netherlands. The total seizure has now risen to 19.5 million [...]