On the tarmac at Shannon Airport in western Ireland, two aircraft sat for refueling. According to two people familiar with the matter, that pause was long enough for CIA Director John Ratcliffe to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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A Romanian-language first-grade class in Orlivka, Ukraine, was opened on Sept. 1. Four days later, it was shut down.
Since the first cold hours of the morning, the square in front of the Romanian Government has begun to fill—not merely with people, but with a grief that has been accumulating for months, perhaps years.
In Dallas, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican convention and asked the audience to raise their right hands. Not for an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, but for a pledge of loyalty to him:
The file sat in a drawer for almost six months. That, more than any speech in Parliament, is what should keep people awake.
In Caracal, a modest town in southern Romania, a century-old theatre fills for eight nights each year with the country’s greatest actors and an audience that treats their arrival as a homecoming.
At a time of economic uncertainty, political instability and war near Romania’s borders, caution is not an unreasonable position.
As Europe faces its most demanding security environment in decades, former Romanian Minister of Defence, General (Ret.) Gabriel Oprea, has called on Romania’s Supreme Council of National Defence
The country hosting the 2034 World Cup has just made clear whose side it is on, and that may matter more than the rebellion.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s reported visit to Moscow on 26 August was never going to be a purely diplomatic courtesy call. Intelligence chiefs do not fly to the capital of a nuclear-armed adversary at war in order to exchange weather reports.