NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — There’s a chance the dreaded propeller noise heard on Ukrainian battlefields is coming from drones built in a country of just over a million people on Europe’s southeastern edge: Cyprus. Maker Swarmly says there are more than 200 of its H-10 Poseidon drones helping Ukrainian artillery batteries pinpoint enemy ground targets … Read more
LONDON (AP) – No more glowing praise. No more political solutions and old-style diplomacy. And no one calls Donald Trump “Daddy” now. European leaders who have struggled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened second-term US president have come closer to saying “no” or something diplomatically similar to his disregard … Read more
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday criticized his European allies for what he described as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s nearly four-year-old invasion and its continued international aggression. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Zelenskyy listed a series of grievances and criticisms of Europe … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Ukraine settlement with US President Donald Trump’s envoys during marathon talks overnight, and the Kremlin insisted the territorial issue must be resolved to reach a peace deal. The meeting in the Kremlin, which lasted until 3 a.m. on Friday, came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sharply criticized his … Read more
Mark Carney spoke for America’s frustrated allies at Davos – but they’re not going anywhere America’s Western allies have had enough—or so they say. This week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, one world leader after another expressed frustration with the United States over its increasingly hostile behavior toward them and called for … Read more
Stock markets went into a global sell-off this morning as world leaders in Davos awoke to news that US President Trump had written to Norway’s prime minister to say his repeated threats to take over Greenland were based on his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. “Given that your Country has decided not to … Read more
GM Factory Zero Assembly Line – General Motors Good morning! It’s Friday, January 9, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, the daily roundup of top headlines from around the world in one place. Here you’ll find the top stories shaping the way Americans drive and get around. In this morning’s edition, GM just lost … Read more
President Donald Trump’s first year back in office has shattered any remaining illusions among European leaders that he can be managed or controlled. His open hostility to the European Union has strained a transatlantic alliance that has endured since World War II and deepened rifts among Europe’s national leaders and within the bloc, jeopardizing its … Read more
Photographer: Wiktor Dabkowski/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s position as a geo-economic force. Instead, the European Commission president will have to find a way to save the Mercosur pact by rallying last-minute support from countries including Italy, which … Read more
In November, a train carrying almost 500 people stopped suddenly in eastern Poland. A broken overhead line broke several windows and the front path was damaged. Elsewhere on the line, explosives detonated under a passing freight train. No one was injured in either case and damage was limited, but Poland, which blamed the attack on … Read more