Egypt seeks border security support from US amid Gaza negotiations
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by Erin Banco
15m ago
Egyptian officials have put forward a slew of requests from the U.S. in negotiations with Israel over Gaza, including security funding and equipment, according to five officials from Egypt, the U.S. and Israel. Cairo in recent months has asked for the U.S. to consider helping supply additional tranches of funding and new military gear — such as security and radar systems — to secure the border with Gaza in preparation for an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah, the five officials said, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive discussions. The Egyptian requests come as American ..read more
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French far-right leader Bardella: ‘My heart leans toward Trump’ in U.S. presidential race
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by Victor Goury-Laffont
15m ago
PARIS — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has at least one loyal supporter across the pond. French far-right leader Jordan Bardella told POLITICO that his “heart leans towards Trump” ahead of the next U.S. presidential election, lauding the former president’s economic policies and questioning President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. “The only models I follow are French examples,” Bardella said, referring to French political figures. “Between Biden and Trump, my heart leans toward Trump, but I’m not American.” Speaking at a POLITICO event in Paris, the 28-year-old lead candidate of the Natio ..read more
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Latvian foreign minister quits amid flight spending scandal
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by Koen Verhelst
7h ago
Latvian Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš announced his resignation on Thursday, engulfed by a scandal on taking private jets to official meetings. His departure effectively eliminates him as a challenger to EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis — a party colleague from Latvia — who is angling to return to the Commission after voters elect a new European Parliament in June. Kariņš had in recent months expressed interest in top jobs at both NATO and the EU. Kariņš, who was prime minister until last November, has been embarrassed by his use of state and EU funds to pay for charter flights ..read more
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Fallen crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years
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by Declan Harty
7h ago
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for his leading role in one of the biggest financial scandals in American history, capping the stunning fall of the former cryptocurrency magnate and one-time Washington megadonor. Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York handed down the sentence almost five months after a jury found Bankman-Fried, 32, guilty of orchestrating a massive fraud centered on his crypto empire. Bankman-Fried faced a maximum 110 years in prison. Just two years ago, Bankman-Fried was the biggest name in crypto and an up-and-co ..read more
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Nigel Farage owns the libs … by gorging on Easter eggs
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by Andrew McDonald
7h ago
LONDON — “I have decided to stuff myself with chocolate,” Brexiteer Nigel Farage declared Thursday. In a pre-Easter message in the Telegraph newspaper, the populist politician launched his latest crusade against the meddling establishment. He’s promising to ignore health warnings and indulge in plenty of chocolate over the long weekend, bureaucrats be damned. Railing against Andrew Kelso, an NHS doctor who dared to warn Brits to keep chocolate consumption in check, Farage wrote: “Go away, Dr Kelso! I don’t care, and I loathe your patronizing tone.” “It’s Easter, and let’s enjoy it,” Farage, re ..read more
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Kremlin delivers warning to Telegram boss after Moscow terror attack
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by Šejla Ahmatović
10h ago
Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Thursday urged Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov to monitor the messaging app more closely, claiming that terrorists use it. “We would have expected more attention from Pavel Durov,” Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Russia’s pro-government outlet Life. “Because this unique and phenomenal resource from a technological point of view, which grew up before our generation’s eyes, is increasingly becoming a tool in the hands of terrorists — used for terrorist purposes,” Peskov said, but added that Russia currently had no plans to ban Telegram. On Frida ..read more
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The Berlaymonster retires!
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by Claudia Chiappa
10h ago
It’s the end of an era. Duncan Lumsden, the creative mind behind the Berlaymonster, one of the EU’s top satirical social media accounts, is leaving the Brussels scene — and his alter ego — behind. After nearly three decades as one of the snappiest voices in the Brussels bubble, Lumsden is starting a new job in London, where he has lived for four years, severing most ties with his old home. “It’s quite a big deal,” he told POLITICO on Thursday. “I arrived in ’98, so it’s been a long stint through the Berlaymonster, through journalism and running MLex, through the sketches we did in the press re ..read more
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Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs
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by Carmen Paun, Aitor Hernández-Morales
10h ago
America’s first experiment in treating hard drugs as a public health problem, rather than one for the police, looks like it’s about to end. The Oregon Legislature has voted to repeal the state’s three-year-old law decriminalizing drug possession for personal use this month, joining cities from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., that are adopting new tough-on-drugs policies. Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek is expected to sign the bill, passed after a surge in fatal overdoses and public drug use, in the coming days. But public health advocates behind the law say the repeal is coming before decri ..read more
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Germany’s Scholz says he hasn’t talked to Putin since December 2022
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by Šejla Ahmatović
13h ago
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz hasn’t spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin since December 2022, he revealed in an interview published Thursday. “Our last phone call was in December 2022 — before that we used to speak more frequently,” Scholz said. Just days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Scholz had visited Putin in Moscow where they sat at an “eternally long table,” he recalled in Thursday’s interview, adding that Putin “was worried about the coronavirus.” Scholz said that after the outbreak of all-out war, Russia and Ukraine tried nego ..read more
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Putin on attacking NATO: ‘Complete nonsense’
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by Seb Starcevic
14h ago
Russia has no plans to invade the rest of Europe, President Vladimir Putin said late Wednesday, despite numerous warnings to NATO by Russian officials and Putin’s own musings about nuclear war. As the Kremlin’s all-out conflict in Ukraine enters its third year, Putin vigorously rejected speculation that Russia could attack other countries in Eastern Europe next. “This is complete nonsense — the possibility of an attack on some other countries, on Poland, the Baltic states, the Czechs are scared. It’s just nonsense,” he said, adding that Russia has “no aggressive intentions toward these states ..read more
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