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EU ministers push Kyiv support and tougher sanctions as unity frays; asset-seizure plan sparks debate 🕊️⚖️💰🌍

EU ministers push Kyiv support and tougher sanctions as unity frays; asset-seizure plan sparks debate 🕊️⚖️💰🌍

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Elvira 30 August 2025
In the frost-bitten corridors of Copenhagen, where glass and protocol pretend to bear the weight of the world, Europe’s council of ministers spoke in measured cadences about a future that does not
US imposes visa sanctions on Abbas and the PLO; EU frustrated as Palestinians press for UN General Assembly recognition 🚫🕊️🌍

US imposes visa sanctions on Abbas and the PLO; EU frustrated as Palestinians press for UN General Assembly recognition 🚫🕊️🌍

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Ronny 30 August 2025
US imposes visa sanctions on Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO, triggering EU frustration and a call from a senior EU figure to rethink the move because it could hit Abbas personally. Abbas may be blocked
Mexico’s disappearances: families and buscadoras push for justice, memory, and healing 🕯️🔎👩‍👧‍👦🌎

Mexico’s disappearances: families and buscadoras push for justice, memory, and healing 🕯️🔎👩‍👧‍👦🌎

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Luisa 30 August 2025
A heavy silence lingers where fear once walked. In communities across Mexico, many families live with the ache of loved ones who have vanished into the shadows, often drawn into the orbit of cartels
DC Court Finds Broad Emergency Tariffs Unlawful, Preserves Targeted Aluminum, Steel, Auto Duties; Admin to Appeal 🏛️⚖️💼🌐

DC Court Finds Broad Emergency Tariffs Unlawful, Preserves Targeted Aluminum, Steel, Auto Duties; Admin to Appeal 🏛️⚖️💼🌐

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Friedrich 30 August 2025
A court in Washington, D.C. has held that a substantial portion of the tariffs imposed under a broad emergency statute were unlawful, while preserving sector-specific duties such as those on
Israeli airstrikes kill Yemen's Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahaui in Sanaa; acting PM Mohammed Ahmed named as Houthis vow continuity 🇾🇪🕊️

Israeli airstrikes kill Yemen's Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahaui in Sanaa; acting PM Mohammed Ahmed named as Houthis vow continuity 🇾🇪🕊️

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Kim 30 August 2025
The events describe Israeli airstrikes hitting the Yemen-based Houthi leadership in late August, killing the prime minister Ahmed al-Rahaui and several ministers during a gathering in Sanaa. A new
Germany Fortifies Against Russia: Espionage, Cyber Attacks, and Baltic Threats 🛡️🌐⚔️

Germany Fortifies Against Russia: Espionage, Cyber Attacks, and Baltic Threats 🛡️🌐⚔️

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Alexander 30 August 2025
Germany is girding itself against a potent fusion of espionage, cyber meddling, and sabotage that makes the old theater of diplomacy look amateurish by comparison. The powers that be have, with a
EU Overhauls Asylum System After 2015 Surge, Pushes Binding Quotas as Solidarity Frays; Germany 2025 Decline Signals Change 🚦🇪🇺

EU Overhauls Asylum System After 2015 Surge, Pushes Binding Quotas as Solidarity Frays; Germany 2025 Decline Signals Change 🚦🇪🇺

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Leo 30 August 2025
Europe faced a massive migrant surge in the mid-2010s, pushing the EU to rethink asylum rules and stitch together a Common European Asylum System. Merkel’s iconic “Wir schaffen das” became a
Libertarian Answer to Migration Populism: Shrink the State, Let Voluntary Exchange Prevail 🗽⚖️🌐

Libertarian Answer to Migration Populism: Shrink the State, Let Voluntary Exchange Prevail 🗽⚖️🌐

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Jerome 30 August 2025
A shift happened within the party: from a euro-skeptical profile to a hard anti-migration posture, accelerated by a leadership change and a climate of crisis rhetoric. The line between a governing
Reform Debates in a Ruined Temple: Pension Cuts and a Culture in Decline 🏛️📉🧭

Reform Debates in a Ruined Temple: Pension Cuts and a Culture in Decline 🏛️📉🧭

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Elvira 30 August 2025
The hall of power stands like a ruined temple where the chorus now speaks in the cool jargon of reform, and the marble sighs beneath the cold glow of ledgers. A chancellor, voice tempered by the long
Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv; investigators chase attacker amid possible Russian angle 🇺🇦🕵️🔎

Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv; investigators chase attacker amid possible Russian angle 🇺🇦🕵️🔎

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Ronny 30 August 2025
A Ukrainian ex-parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv. Zelensky called it a horrific murder and said investigators are pursuing the attacker; authorities have not confirmed the
Germany’s Housing Crisis: Rents Rise, Reforms Scrutinized, Urgent Call for Green, People‑First Homes 🏠🌍♻️

Germany’s Housing Crisis: Rents Rise, Reforms Scrutinized, Urgent Call for Green, People‑First Homes 🏠🌍♻️

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Luisa 30 August 2025
Softly, the story speaks of a land short of rooms and long of longing. In Germany, a chorus of hopeful hands reaches for shelter as rents rise and the costs to raise homes climb. In cities, the size
Russia Prepares Major Donbass Offensive; Ukraine Braces, West Urged to Act 🛡️🌍⚖️

Russia Prepares Major Donbass Offensive; Ukraine Braces, West Urged to Act 🛡️🌍⚖️

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Friedrich 30 August 2025
The situation on the ground is described in stark terms: Zelensky warns of a renewed Russian push in the Donbass, with Pokrovsk—an important logistics hub—found to be within a concentrated
EU’s ‘humanitarian’ sanctions: virtue rhetoric masking capital coercion in Gaza policy 💶🕊️⚖️

EU’s ‘humanitarian’ sanctions: virtue rhetoric masking capital coercion in Gaza policy 💶🕊️⚖️

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Kim 30 August 2025
The powers of Europe are stage-managing a crisis with the rhetoric of virtue while weighing the interests of capital. Germany says it will not back a plan by Brussels to sanction Israel over Gaza,
AfD dominates Bundestag penalty tally (€1.1m of €1.8m) as GOAL AG covert-support case comes to light 💶🔎🇩🇪

AfD dominates Bundestag penalty tally (€1.1m of €1.8m) as GOAL AG covert-support case comes to light 💶🔎🇩🇪

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Alexander 30 August 2025
From 2017 onward, the Bundestag’s ledger shows about 1.8 million euros in penalties for various transgressions—improper donations, false reporting, or misusing parliamentary funds. The AfD
EU Tightens Russia Sanctions to Starve War Budget, Critics Urge Speed and Mobility Over Red Tape 🚗💨🛣️

EU Tightens Russia Sanctions to Starve War Budget, Critics Urge Speed and Mobility Over Red Tape 🚗💨🛣️

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Leo 30 August 2025
Europe is tightening the screws on Moscow after a strike that hit a European Union office in Kyiv. They’ve rolled out another wave of sanctions, leaning on measures that target ships, energy
Libertarian Critique: Brazil’s VW Slavery Verdict Risks State Moralizing Over Private, Rights‑Based Redress 🗽⚖️💬

Libertarian Critique: Brazil’s VW Slavery Verdict Risks State Moralizing Over Private, Rights‑Based Redress 🗽⚖️💬

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Jerome 30 August 2025
A Brazilian labor court ordered VW Brasil to pay 165 million reais in damages for conditions described as slave-labor–like on a VW‑owned farm in the Amazon during the 1970s and 1980s, and it also
Tariffs in Legal Limbo as Court Reins in Executive Power ⚖️🏛️🔒

Tariffs in Legal Limbo as Court Reins in Executive Power ⚖️🏛️🔒

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Elvira 30 August 2025
In the theater of governance, where marble once meant law and law meant restraint, a cold herald has delivered its verdict, and the air tastes of iron and mildew. A seven to four omen, not of
Buffett’s Berkshire: The Myth, the Rescue, and the Quiet Power Behind the Empire 🤔💼🏰

Buffett’s Berkshire: The Myth, the Rescue, and the Quiet Power Behind the Empire 🤔💼🏰

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Ronny 30 August 2025
Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into a massive, diversified empire—insurance, energy, rail, you name it—on a plain-spoken creed: buy what you understand, hold long, and stay fearful when others
Lebanon’s Blue Line: UN Peacekeepers Deliver Aid and Healing Amid Geopolitics 🕊️🌿🪖🌍

Lebanon’s Blue Line: UN Peacekeepers Deliver Aid and Healing Amid Geopolitics 🕊️🌿🪖🌍

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Luisa 30 August 2025
Along a fragile frontier, the peacekeepers of UNIFIL move with a measured care along the blue line, their daily and nightly patrolling stitching quiet hours into a tense tapestry. Indian blue-helmet
US visa ban on Palestinian leaders tests liberal order and diplomacy 🗽⚖️🕊️

US visa ban on Palestinian leaders tests liberal order and diplomacy 🗽⚖️🕊️

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Friedrich 30 August 2025
In plain terms, the United States has moved to revoke the visas of Mahmoud Abbas and roughly eighty Palestinian Authority officials, returning the favor of a long list of entry restrictions that
Civil servants enjoy cheaper, larger loans; credit becomes a tool of social sorting 💳🏛️⚖️

Civil servants enjoy cheaper, larger loans; credit becomes a tool of social sorting 💳🏛️⚖️

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Kim 30 August 2025
A recent analysis shows civil servants enjoy cheaper loan terms than other workers: the average installment loan interest rate is 5.68% for civil servants, about 14% lower than the 6.59% faced by
Enforcement warrant issued as Marla-Svenja Liebich fails to report to Chemnitz women’s prison; 18-month sentence for incitement to hatred, defamation and insult amid Self-Determination Law row. 🚨⚖️🗳️

Enforcement warrant issued as Marla-Svenja Liebich fails to report to Chemnitz women’s prison; 18-month sentence for incitement to hatred, defamation and insult amid Self-Determination Law row. 🚨⚖️🗳️

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Alexander 30 August 2025
As narrated, a right-wing extremist figure, Marla-Svenja Liebich, failed to report to the Chemnitz women’s prison and now faces an enforcement warrant. She was convicted in July 2023 of incitement
Appeals court: president lacked authority to impose tariffs; tariffs kept in place for Supreme Court appeal ⚖️🇺🇸

Appeals court: president lacked authority to impose tariffs; tariffs kept in place for Supreme Court appeal ⚖️🇺🇸

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Leo 30 August 2025
An appeals court in the United States ruled that several tariffs imposed by the president were unlawful because the legal basis he cited does not authorize tariffs and the law expressly excludes
Sanctions as Coercion: Libertarian critique urges ending coercive foreign policy and embracing free trade 🌐💸🕊️

Sanctions as Coercion: Libertarian critique urges ending coercive foreign policy and embracing free trade 🌐💸🕊️

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Jerome 29 August 2025
The Europeans are trying to snap back UN sanctions on Iran, while Tehran insists the snapback is illegitimate and signals a preference for diplomacy under fair terms. Iran’s ultra-conservative
Würzburg Showdown: Black-Red Coalition Bets on Bureaucracy Cuts and Tax Relief, but Unity Teeters 🇩🇪⏳💼🎭

Würzburg Showdown: Black-Red Coalition Bets on Bureaucracy Cuts and Tax Relief, but Unity Teeters 🇩🇪⏳💼🎭

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Elvira 29 August 2025
In Würzburg, the theater of politics plays out like a pale echo of an epic long since recast into town-hall jargon. The black-red coalition promise a united front, yet the air is thick with the ache
Toulon talks yield theater, not policy; Berlin summit framed as turning point for Franco-German coordination 🤝🎭🇫🇷🇩🇪

Toulon talks yield theater, not policy; Berlin summit framed as turning point for Franco-German coordination 🤝🎭🇫🇷🇩🇪

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Ronny 29 August 2025
Two sides met in Toulon for earnest talk, but the outcome was mostly talk. Merz and Macron exchanged pleasantries, about ninety minutes of work, a group photo, and a Mediterranean lunch. They
Healing Trade: Toward Regenerative, Climate-Just Global Prosperity 🌍🤝🌱

Healing Trade: Toward Regenerative, Climate-Just Global Prosperity 🌍🤝🌱

business
Luisa 29 August 2025
A gentle current runs beneath the surface of these moves: tariffs, sanctions, and a deeper state hand reaching into the gears of global trade, aiming not only for domestic steadiness but for a
Hatvanpuszta makeover tests line between private wealth and political power in Hungary 💰🏛️🗣️🔎

Hatvanpuszta makeover tests line between private wealth and political power in Hungary 💰🏛️🗣️🔎

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Friedrich 29 August 2025
Hatvanpuszta, an estate near Felcsút once left to decay in a relic of an Imperial tale, has been lavished into what its promoters call a flagship demonstration farm and heritage restoration. Győző
Trump Halts Extra Year of Secret Service Protection for Kamala Harris 🛡️⏳

Trump Halts Extra Year of Secret Service Protection for Kamala Harris 🛡️⏳

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Kim 29 August 2025
The report describes how former US president Donald Trump cancelled an extended round of Secret Service protection specifically granted to Kamala Harris by Joe Biden, ending an extra year of security
Iran Executes Hundreds as Public Punishments Escalate; Minorities Pay the Price 💔⚖️🩸

Iran Executes Hundreds as Public Punishments Escalate; Minorities Pay the Price 💔⚖️🩸

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Alexander 29 August 2025
A grim tally sits at the edge of the evening: through August, Iran has dispatched more than 840 souls, with July alone recording a hundred or so, a cadence that suggests the drumbeat of a state

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