Orbán demands EU skip decision on Ukraine membership talks on 05/12/23
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán demanded on Monday (4 December) that a summit of EU leaders next week avoid any decision on Ukraine's coveted goal of getting a green light for membership talks even as the country fights Russia's invasion. Niger ends security and defence partnerships with the EU on 05/12/23
Niger's military leaders said Monday (4 December) that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the country, after earlier in the day agreeing to strengthen military cooperation with Russia. Israel intensifies southern Gaza offensive; US, UN urge civilian protections on 05/12/23
Israeli forces pressed ahead with their air and ground bombardment of southern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, even as the United States and the United Nations repeatedly urged them to protect civilians. Cyprus says US experts to help probe Russia sanction busters on 05/12/23
Experts from the United States have arrived in Cyprus to help police investigate cases where Russian oligarchs were allegedly enabled to bypass sanctions, a Cypriot official said Monday (4 November). As national governments meet at COP28, local governments are partnering for change on 04/12/23
While national governments tend to be at the forefront of the fight against climate change - as signatories to the Paris Agreement, for example - at this year's COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai, local authorities are also joining them at the table. The Brief – Just another Paris attack? on 04/12/23
The recent fatal attack on the streets of Paris raises questions about security, partly because in less than eight months, the French capital will host the Olympic Games. Ukrainian reconstruction efforts lack commitment to accessibility on 04/12/23
The needs of people with disabilities have been largely neglected in Ukraine, even though their number has greatly increased during the Russian invasion, and efforts to reconstruct the country should address this, European disability rights activists told Euractiv. Israeli security chief in recording vows to hunt down Hamas abroad on 04/12/23
Israel will hunt down Hamas in Lebanon, Turkey and Qatar even if it takes years, the head of Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet said in a recording aired by Israel's public broadcaster Kan on Sunday (3 December). Ukraine’s security service alleges Russian plot involving Orbán, Poroshenko on 04/12/23
Ukraine's security service said on Saturday (2 December) it had prevented former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country on grounds that Russia planned to exploit a planned meeting with Hungary's prime minister to hurt Ukrainian interests. Venezuelan voters back sovereignty claim over 160,000 sq. km of Guyana on 04/12/23
Voters in Venezuela rejected the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) jurisdiction over the country's territorial dispute with Guyana and backed the creation of a new state in the potential oil-rich Esequibo region in a Sunday (3 December) referendum.
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