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BERLIN (AP) - German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next election

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BERLIN (AP) - Exit polls show Alternative for Germany on course for strongest far-right showing in a national election since WWII

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Polls close shortly in the German election - AP live blog here will have all the latest

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he'd be ready to give up presidency if it brought peace and NATO membership

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On this day, three years ago in Mariupol—just days before the russians began turning a peaceful city of almost half a million residents into a massive cemetery. 💔

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

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BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

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Because we need all the good news we can get

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Update on the host and president of COP29... "BBC has made the reluctant decision to close its office in the country and to suspend the activities of our excellent journalists in Baku" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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A planned press conference with President Zelensky and the US chief envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg has been cancelled. An American call it seems, with Ukrainian sources saying that Mr Kellogg appears increasingly “sidelined” by the Trump administration.

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That Zelensky is in Turkey while the Trump administration reaches out to the Russians (Kremlin sending second-tier, not Naryshkin though) testifies to the crucial role Turkey plays. Ukrainians understand Ankara's balancing act btw Moscow and Kyiv/West but seek deeper ties.

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Few concrete results were expected from Paris, it was organised so quickly. Expectations now running high for an additional high-level emergency meeting on/around 24 Feb in Kyiv, hosted by the Ukrainian Govt. At least 13 European leaders expected to attend & senior EU officials

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The stuff of (small) nightmares

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Not many firm conclusions out of emergency talks in Paris - just a plea from the Europeans for a seat at the table in the negotiations that could shape the future of the continent. Nothing doing, say Washington and Moscow

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And if there isn't?

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Happy #flagday2025, Canada - flying the maple leaf on the beaches of Suffolk

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"European leaders have been trying to make sense of a tough new line from Washington on issues including democracy and Ukraine’s future, as the Trump administration continues to upend trans-Atlantic conventions that have been in place since after World War II."

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The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding Air Force One Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion.

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Serbia's students are on the move. Major rally Saturday in Kragujevac, protesting against corruption and demanding accountability from the 🇷🇸 government

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A drone hit the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early this morning, per the IAEA. The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement unit caught fire and was damaged, but the IAEA reports the inner structure was not breached and radiation levels have not risen outside.

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Historian Margaret McMillan, author of The War That Ended Peace, to BBC Radio 4 on Putin, Trump and Ukraine: "I study these periods and I find them fascinating, but I never thought I'd be living through one, and I'm not enjoying it."

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Ok so I am a massive nerd for this stuff, but it always blows my mind that I'm crossing the Forum every time I get the 149 up from London Bridge. You can feel it on Gracechurch St where the hill flattens out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"Leave it to beavers" was _right there_

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Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.

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Some quick thoughts on US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s address to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Hegseth said the US doesn’t believe NATO membership for 🇺🇦 is a “realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.” Indeed, NATO membership shouldn’t be negotiated with Russia, it’s up to allies.

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"It was unclear how closely Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be involved."

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Austrian coalition talks between the far-right Freedom Party and the centre right collapse - not clear what happens next: new elections, coalition talks between the other parties, or a technocratic caretaker government apnews.com/article/aust...

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Nato, Ukraine and Pete Hegseth. "Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said over the weekend that 'the Europeans have to own this conflict going forward. President Trump is going to end it. And then in terms of security guarantees, that is squarely going to be with the Europeans.'"

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The student protest movement that started in Serbia is spreading. Students in Bosnia and Montenegro also held rallies today. The common thread: anger over corruption and official impunity. A short 🧵 \1

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The Serbian student protest movement is spreading: now students in neighbouring Bosnia are rallying against corruption and demanding accountability. In Serbia, the proximate cause was the canopy collapse in Novi Sad - in Bosnia, last year's deadly floods

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An old slogan repurposed #SUV

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Today is the #SuperbOwl! Here’s a feathery fan from the margins of a late 15th-century Book of Hours, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 152, f. 70r 🦉🏈

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