New meeting with Kiev: Europeans decide to boost their defense

European leaders showed their desire to strengthen the continent's defense capabilities, just as Washington announced a new meeting with Kiev in Saudi Arabia. The 27 gave the green light to the European Commission's plan, called “Rearming Europe”, which aims to mobilize some 800 billion euros, stressing “the need to substantially increase defence spending”. It was during their exceptional summit meeting in Brussels.

Washington: the trade war between the United States and its neighbors goes down a notch

After Donald Trump backed down on the 25% tariffs he had imposed on Canada and Mexico, causing Ottawa to suspend some retaliatory measures, the trade war between the United States and its neighbors went down a notch on Thursday. The Republican president has put on hold until April 2 the 25% tariffs for Mexican and Canadian products that meet the specifications of the Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement

Fighting between security forces and fighters loyal to Assad in Syria: over 70 dead

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), reported on Friday that at least 70 people were killed in the Latakia region, on the coast of Syria, during clashes between security forces and fighters “loyal” to the president of Eacute; chu Bashar al-Assad. The OSDH reported on X that “more than 70 people were killed and dozens of others injured or captured during bloody clashes and ambushes on the Syrian coast between members of the ministries of defense and interior and militants from the army of the deceased

Paris: adoption of a new text to try to stop untimely telephone canvassing
MEPs unanimously adopted a text on Thursday to establish prior consumer consent. They are looking for solutions against untimely telephone calls. The text was already adopted in the Senate and defended in the National Assembly by the MoDem as part of its parliamentary niche, the annual day reserved for the texts of its group. Véronique Louwagie, Deputy Minister in charge of Commerce, “this telephone canvassing is exhausting our fellow citizens (...) More than 90% of French people are exasperated by this practice at a time when we receive an average of six unwanted calls per

Bernard Squarcini trial: the Paris Criminal Court delivers its judgment today

The Paris Criminal Court delivers its judgment on Friday in the trial of former head of internal intelligence Bernard Squarcini. The latter is suspected of having taken advantage of his networks to obtain confidential information and privileges for the benefit in particular of the CEO of LVMH, Bernard Arnault. The decision must be announced from 10:00am.

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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it had lifted sanctions against 24 Syrian entities or entities linked to Syria.

The SpaceX company of multibillionaire Elon Musk once again lost the second stage of its Starship mega-rocket, the spaceship. Nevertheless, she managed to recover the first floor in a spectacular maneuver.

MEPs removed one of the most criticized measures in a bill to fight drug trafficking on Thursday evening in committee. This measure aimed to preserve certain special investigative techniques by storing information in a “safe file” inaccessible to drug traffickers' lawyers

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to establish a “strategic bitcoin reserve.” This is an important sign of support for the cryptocurrency industry, which generously contributed to the financing of its last presidential campaign

Lyon won 3-1 at FCSB in the first leg of the round of 16 in Bucharest. He thus took a good advantage in qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Europa League.