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Without the US and China’s Cooperation, Climate Catastrophe Is Inevitable

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When will Europe learn to defend itself? – POLITICO

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PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed.

As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic remark: “This is the hour of Europe, not that of the Americans.”

Since then, there have been years

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We Need International Cooperation to Fight Climate Change, Not War

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Turkey’s Erdoğan treads a fine line on Russia – POLITICO

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are strange bedfellows — sometimes close strategic partners, but sometimes bitter regional adversaries.

For now, the Turkish leader is casting himself as a middleman, as he visited the Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus waterfront last week to personally welcome Ukrainian and Russian negotiators gathering for peace talks.

In assuming this role, Erdoğan is treading a delicate tightrope. The relationship between Turkey and

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Russian space agency boss warns against sanctions that could block cooperation on the ISS

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The head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, warned the US against introducing sanctions against its space program, threatening to stop maintenance that could see the 500 ton facility fall out of orbit and potentially land on the US.

So far the four US astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station have been ‘largely isolated’ from tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to experts familiar with the station’s operation.

Roscosmos Director General, Dmitry Rogozin, posted

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Europe’s under-fire gatekeeper – POLITICO

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As EU leaders prepare to meet their Western Balkan counterparts on Wednesday, they might want to ask the European Commission’s point man for an impartial view of the region’s efforts to meet democratic standards and one day join the bloc.

Then again, they might not.

According to more than a dozen officials from multiple institutions and an analysis of internal documents, European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi has overseen a push to play down concerns

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