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Slovak Prime Minister threatens to block new Russia sanctions unless his country gets energy guarantees, as parliament backs symbolic resolution against EU measures.

Tuscany has carried out Italy’s first assisted suicide, defying a national legal vacuum as Meloni’s government pushes a bill that sidesteps regulation of the right to die.

Les chefs traditionnels de la province de la Tshopo ont pris l’engagement de ne pas vendre les terres et les forêts, bien qu’elles constituent une part essentielle de leur pouvoir coutumier. Cette décision a été actée le mardi 10 juin à Kisangani, à l’issue d’un atelier organisé par l’ONG TROPENBOS RDC.

Cet atelier a réuni les chefs traditionnels de quatre territoires : 

Americas MilTrain II JV won an $84,.6 million contract for MQ-9 Aircrew Training Support. This contract provides for all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and all other items and services required to perform and support MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft aircrew academic instruction; courseware development; and air and ground intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance test and training support; and major command certified approaches/supplemental recovery procedures. Work will be performed at Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; Creech AFB, U.S. Air Force Weapons School, and 556 Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nevada; March Air Reserve Base, California; and Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, New York, and is expected to be completed by July 30, 2030. This contract was a competitive acquisition and four offers were received. Fiscal 2025 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $833,476 are being obligated at time of award. Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center, Hampton, Virginia, is the contracting activity. Raytheon has secured a $646-million contract to produce four more SPY-6(V) radars for the US Navy. With other agreements already in place, the latest procurement brings the total number of units under contract to 42, with deliveries expected by 2028. “SPY-6 […]

Germany banned a 'right-wing extremist' magazine. The resulting court case will help decide just how much power the government has to suppress extremism.

Barnier: "Better to be together in today’s world—with Russian and American aggression, and the rise of China."

It's 17 March 2023, and the SPOT-7 (or Azersky) Earth observation satellite, which Airbus Group sold to Azerbaijani space agency Azercosmos in 2014, has suddenly stopped transmitting. Experts from Airbus Defence and Space (ADS), the group's division specialising in satellites, [...]

The Admiral Vladimirsky set sail in early April from the Russian naval base at Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg with a [...]

The eleventh edition of the Riga Stratcom Dialogue, held by NATO's Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in the Latvian capital [...]

Since the announcement on 22 March of the death of businessman Alexander Machkevich, who co-founded Eurasian Resources Group (ERG, which [...]

The downsides of energy independence.

How Arab public opinion constrains normalization with Israel.

Members of the impeachment prosecution panel say that the case is "fully compliant with the requirements of the constitution."

La Commission électorale burundaise a proclamé, mercredi 11 juin, les résultats provisoires des élections législatives qui se sont tenues le 5 juin dernier dans le pays. Si le CNDD-FDD, le parti au pouvoir, en sort grand vainqueur avec plus de 96 % des voix, ses concurrents crient à la fraude et dénoncent un scrutin « truqué ».

Can issues with refugee labor in Thailand be tackled through an FTA with the European Union? 

Tengku Zafrul Aziz will hold meetings with the U.S. trade officials next week, in the shadow of President Donald Trump's July 9 tariff deadline.

En ce mois de juin, les théâtres russes commencent à envoyer leurs programmes de rentrée avec des pièces mettant en valeur ce que Vladimir Poutine continue à appeler « l’opération spéciale ». Jeux vidéo, films, séries télé, toute l’industrie du loisir et de la culture est mise à contribution. Objectif : toucher le grand public. Avec, à ce stade, un succès encore mitigé chez les spectateurs.

Tensions have recently abated, but New Delhi and Ottawa remain far apart on the issue that triggered them.

Transnational repression arises when foreign governments reach across national borders to coerce, control and silence individuals in other countries using a broad range of methods, ranging from digital surveillance to extraterritorial killings. Amongst the primary targets of transnational repression are human rights defenders, whose advocacy is perceived by repressive regimes as a threat to their interests and power. As a result, human rights defenders fleeing persecution or other forms of repression at home are now facing increasing danger even though they have moved abroad. The practice of transnational repression negatively impacts every level of society, from individual rights to national security and democratic institutions. This paper presents global trends in transnational repression against human rights defenders, focusing on human rights impacts and curtailment of civic space. It examines the human rights obligations of European Union (EU) Member States as host countries to address transnational repression and outlines some of the emerging policy responses by governments worldwide. The paper also examines how current EU legal and policy frameworks and instruments could be applied to counter transnational repression and provides recommendations for improving protection for the human rights defenders.
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This will give factories a temporary reprieve, but both sides could still leverage economic chokepoints in the future absent a larger deal.