German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht discussed a potential delivery of German-made tanks from Spain to Ukraine with her Spanish colleague Margarita Robles on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid, dpa learned on Thursday. Earlier in June, rep…
Danish leader slammed for being ‘grossly misleading’ on mink cull
Comments by Denmark’s prime minister amid a corona-panicked culling of about 15 million minks were “objectively seen, grossly misleading,” slammed a commission on Thursday as it released a report into the incident. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiks…
Bundesliga chief Hopfen: League needs big names like Mané and Götze
Bundesliga chief executive Donata Hopfen is enthusiastic about Sadio Mané and Mario Götze joining Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt. “The league needs such stars and big names,” Hopfen said on Thursday at the Horizont Congress in Frankfurt, accordi…
Israel heads for November 1 elections after dissolving parliament
Israeli voters will be called to the polls on November 1 – the fifth time they’ve been asked to cast ballots in three and a half years – after parliament worked out a deal to dissolve itself on Thursday. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s eight-party rul…
Philippines’ Marcos Jr, son of late dictator, takes presidential oath
Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Thursday vowed to build back a better country from the Covid-19 pandemic, and deliver on his campaign promises without any excuses as he took his oath of office as the country’s new leader. Marcos…
Putin: Finnish and Swedish NATO membership will cause ‘tension’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the Kremlin is threatened by Finland and Sweden joining NATO, but nonetheless said Russia would take military countermeasures. “There is nothing to worry us in terms of Swedish and Finnish membership of NATO,…
NATO dinner held in Madrid Prado Museum with Kiev Symphony Orchestra
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez offered the participants at the NATO summit in Madrid a very special experience with a special Ukrainian ingredient on Wednesday evening. The socialist invited the heads of state and government to a working dinner i…
Man whose severed head was left outside German court was already dead
A severed head discovered in front of a courthouse in Germany belongs to a man who died of natural causes, according to the result of the forensic medical examination of the 44-year-old’s body, the police in the city of Bonn announced on Wednesday. The…
Kerber beats Linette to reach third round at Wimbledon
Angelique Kerber had no trouble to beat Poland’s Magda Linette and advance to the third round at Wimbledon. The German, who won the grass-court classic in 2018, eased into the next round with a 6-3, 6-3 win on Wednesday. “It was important to enjoy my g…
‘Coercive’ China sees NATO boost cooperation in Indo-Pacific
NATO is to step up cooperation with the alliance’s partners in the Indo-Pacific region, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced in a press conference on Wednesday. The alliance plans to expand cooperation with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Sou…