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VPN signups surge after Pornhub pulls out of France

Parent company of Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn suspended the sites for French users on Wednesday.

June 5, 2025 12:10 pm CET

Poland is becoming Europe’s factory for ‘bath salts’ drugs, EU agency warns

In 2023, authorities dismantled 53 production sites across Europe, 40 of them in Poland.

June 5, 2025 11:59 am CET

Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules breach EU law, top court adviser says

Legal opinion bolsters EU’s challenge against Viktor Orbán’s conservative culture war.

June 5, 2025 10:53 am CET

Trump launches probe into whether Biden aides concealed alleged decline

The investigation will look into whether Biden’s aides “conspired to deceive the public” about Biden’s mental and physical state.

June 5, 2025 10:33 am CET

How risky is Rachel Reeves’s winter fuel U-turn?

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day …

June 5, 2025 9:54 am CET

NATO allies cannot rely on America for their defense, warns US defense chief

“It’s deterrence and peace through strength, but it cannot be reliance,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

June 5, 2025 9:39 am CET

Trump halts entry of foreign students seeking to attend Harvard

The ban is an escalation of his fight with oldest U.S. university.

June 5, 2025 8:36 am CET

Europe’s dream to wean off US tech gets reality check

As the Trump administration plays hardball, a new EU strategy puts collaboration front and center.

June 5, 2025 4:20 am CET

Britain prepares to go all-in on nuclear power — after years of dither

The U.K. Treasury has run out of road for delaying nuclear decisions, according to Whitehall and industry insiders.

June 5, 2025 4:18 am CET

China helps Russia pull ahead in lethal drone war race with Ukraine

Beijing denies helping Moscow, but Russia is scaling up both the production and the sophistication of its drones.

June 5, 2025 4:18 am CET

Germany’s Merz ventures into Trump’s lion’s den

Oval Office encounters are always fraught with danger, but these two rich, anti-immigration golfers might just hit it off.

June 5, 2025 4:01 am CET

Trump issues new multi-country travel ban

The president’s executive order restricts bars people from 12 countries, while partially issuing restrictions against nationals from seven others.

June 5, 2025 2:23 am CET
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Putin will ‘respond’ to surprise Ukraine drone strikes, Trump says

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a Ukrainian drone strike over the weekend.

June 4, 2025 7:49 pm CET

Meloni’s controversial anti-protest bill becomes Italian law

Security decree gives greater powers to agents of the state and greater protections to police officers.

June 4, 2025 6:30 pm CET

Ukraine releases new footage of daring AI strikes that crippled Putin’s bomber fleet

Kyiv used artificial intelligence to conduct one of the most audacious attacks on Russia in history.

June 4, 2025 5:43 pm CET

Trump’s 5 percent defense spending target seemed far-fetched. Now not so much.

NATO defense ministers in Brussels are expected to pave the way for a new defense spending goal — the questions are now when, and how.

June 4, 2025 5:36 pm CET

French court strips Marine Le Pen of her local mandate

The decision is another reminder of how the far-right leader’s judicial woes are affecting her political career.

June 4, 2025 5:26 pm CET

EU looks to impose sanctions on Putin simultaneously with US, says von der Leyen

“We have discussed how we can implement European sanctions and American sanctions at the same time,” European Commission chief tells POLITICO.

June 4, 2025 4:52 pm CET

Abortion: Europe’s not as liberal as you think

While the global focus is on America’s reversal of long-standing abortion rights, a surprising number of European women still have to travel to terminate pregnancies.

June 4, 2025 4:05 pm CET

EU extends temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees but wants long-term fix

Brussels will appoint a special envoy for Ukrainians in the EU to help to lay the groundwork for their gradual return.

June 4, 2025 2:48 pm CET

Brussels asks EU countries to use less water

Countries would set their own water efficiency targets under the proposal, which would not be legally binding.

June 4, 2025 2:42 pm CET

PMQs: Badenoch makes Starmer squirm on welfare

The Tory leader made the most of Labour’s gear changes on winter fuel eligibility and the two child benefit cap — but answers from Keir Starmer were lacking.

June 4, 2025 2:38 pm CET

World War II bombs trigger huge evacuation in Cologne

“The evacuation is the largest measure since the end of the Second World War,” say local authorities.

June 4, 2025 2:32 pm CET

EU frees up billions in Covid cash for defense spending

Defense projects can now apply for a chunk of the remaining €335 billion — initially earmarked for climate and digital investment.

June 4, 2025 2:02 pm CET
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