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Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Featured, Global, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, International Justice, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: Michaela Stache/AFP BRUSSELS, Belgium, Mar 20 2026 (IPS) - When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the 62nd Munich Security Conference by declaring that the post-war…

True to his word, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban dug in his heels at Thursday’s European Council summit and refused to lift his veto over the EU’s 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine, which the embattled country needs to stay financially afloat over the next two years. A 90-minute closed-door discussion on the…

A pro-Kremlin figure who unexpectedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in a social media post this week that went viral has been placed in a psychiatric facility, the hospital said on Thursday. Ilya Remeslo made a career denouncing Putin’s critics until he became one himself, posting a manifesto late on…

BRUSSELS — The European Union (EU) will find ways to pay out the promised 90 billion euro (S$133 billion) loan to Ukraine despite Hungary's ongoing resistance, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said early on Friday (March 20). "We will deliver one way or the other," von der Leyen…

Despite the opposition of Hungary, the European Union will find ways to deliver the promised 90 billion euro ($104.2 billion) loan ⁠to Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said early on March 20. "We will deliver one way or the other," ⁠ von der Leyen told reporters ‌after…

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) - The ⁠EU ⁠will find ways ⁠to pay out the promised 90 billion ​euro ($104.2 billion) loan to Ukraine despite Hungary's ongoing ‌resistance, European Commission President ‌Ursula von der Leyen said early ⁠on ⁠Friday. "We will deliver one way or the other," ​von der Leyen told…

Moscow’s closest partner in the bloc, the nationalist prime minister has long resisted helping Kyiv to repel Russia’s invasion, stalling EU aid and repeated rounds of sanctions EU leaders failed to persuade Hungary’s Viktor Orban to lift his block on a massive loan to support Ukraine’s war effort at summit…

The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and…

India arrested seven men late last week on charges of conspiring to carry out terrorist activities against India. Among those seven was a US “freedom fighter”, Matthew Aaron VanDyke, who has been accused of leading a group of Ukrainians to carry out the terror plot. According to the Indian Express…

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic spent the best part of the 1990s in the Croatian diplomatic service, but his most recent remarks regarding Israel have hardly been those of a trained diplomat. It began on March 6, when Israel’s ambassador to Zagreb, Gary Koren, called on Croatian authorities to check the…