Day: February 3, 2025

European Union leaders gather on Monday to discuss how to bolster the continent’s defences against Russia and how to handle U.S. President Donald Trump after his decision to impose tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China.

Around 4,000 of the 11,000-men contingent North Korea sent to Russia last year are thought to have died already, with more losses expected.

To wean itself off Russian natural gas, Europe has found new sources of energy, including imports from the United States. But high costs are straining the economy.

A deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza’s ceasefire arrived Monday with the Israeli prime minister in Washington, silence from his office about when a negotiating team might engage with Hamas, and considerable uncertainty about what the next stage of the fragile truce will look like.

President Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he’d do.