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Two Irish centre-right parties are close to striking a coalition deal with independent MPs that would allow them to form a government and return to power for another five-year term, Reuters reported yesterday, citing two MPs.more

Donald Trump will want to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine as soon as possible after becoming US President, but Russian leader Vladimir Putin is unlikely to agree to this, according to Kurt Volker, former US Special Representative for Ukraine.more

Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally attempting to change the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, which he lost, had he not been re-elected as head of state in 2024. - according to a Justice Department report that was sent to Congress today.more

Iran and three major European powers - Germany, France and the UK - began two days of talks in Geneva last night on Iran's nuclear programme, the Iranian press reported, quoted by AFP.more

Danish counterintelligence has established that the idea to occupy Greenland was suggested to Donald Trump by Russian intelligence, using a forged letter to a US senator, ‘Newsweek’ recalled yesterday. The story was revived on social media just before the President-elect's inauguration.more

44.2 per cent of respondents are of the opinion that it is possible for the government, the president and the opposition to cooperate in activities related to the Polish Presidency of the EU Council; 39.5 per cent of respondents are of the opposite opinion, according to a SW Research poll for rp.pl.more

President-elect Donald Trump became the first-ever former or sitting president to be formally convicted of a felony Friday as he was sentenced in his hush money criminal case—but the president-elect was not given any penalties for his crimes.more

US President-elect Donald Trump does not know how to end the war in Ukraine for the time being, and has no immediate intention of ending aid to Kyiv, the UK's Financial Times wrote yesterday, citing anonymous sources.more

French President Emmanuel Macron met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer late last night and the main topic of their conversation was the situation in Ukraine, a British government spokesperson reported.more

Elon Musk, an American billionaire and trusted aide to future US President Donald Trump, is looking for ways to overthrow Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Great Britain, the Financial Times reported today, citing sources close to the head of SpaceX and Tesla.more

Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Holownia announced today that the presidential election will be held on 18 May. If a second round is necessary, it will be held on 1 June. Formally, the elections will be called in a week's time, on 15 January, and only then will the election campaign begin.more

Elon Musk acts as de facto ‘co-president of the USA’ and seeks to change the powers in allied European countries, without criticising China or Russia for doing so; Europe is in trouble, a columnist for the British daily ‘Financial Times’ assesses today.more

There is not the slightest chance of Canada becoming part of the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on social media yesterday, commenting on US President-elect Donald Trump's statements about annexing Canada.more

The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), comprising the militaries of 10 northern European countries, has strengthened protection of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea and monitoring of the Russian ‘shadow fleet’, among other things, using artificial intelligence, the UK and Swedish governments said.more

The government has unveiled a new pledge to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year. The plan will expand access to Community Diagnostic Centres and surgical hubs, alongside reforms designed to enhance patient choice and tackle inefficiencies.more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that he will step down as party leader and thus cease to be Prime Minister. However, he will remain in office until his successor is elected. The work of parliament has been suspended for almost three months.more

Labour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its promise of cutting child poverty, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has argued.more

Those spreading lies are not interested in the victims, they are interested in themselves, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced today in response to a question about US billionaire Elon Musk's attacks on the British government's head of paedophile gangs.more

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK, just weeks after reports the multi-billionaire was in talks to donate to the party. In a post on his social media site X, Musk said Farage "doesn't have what it takes" to lead the party - but did not explain his reasoning.more

X platform owner Elon Musk yesterday called for the release from prison of far-right co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL), Tommy Robinson.more

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the proposal for the creation of joint military patrols in the Baltic Sea by the countries of the region "absolutely necessary". He expressed hope that Prime Minister Donald Tusk's idea will be implemented this year.more

In 2024, Europe experienced flash floods and forest fires. There were massive protests by farmers. There was a rise in the influence of anti-system parties in many countries, as well as in the EP. The government in the UK changed, there was a political crisis in France, and in Germany the government coalition collapsed.more

Senior figures in Tony Blair’s government, including John Prescott and Jack Straw, urged the then prime minister to delay opening the UK labour market to eastern European nationals shortly before they became EU citizens, newly released documents reveal.more

Presidential elections were held in 2024 in the USA, India and Venezuela, among others. Martial law was attempted in South Korea. In the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Iran escalated. Israel began intensive hostilities in southern Lebanon. In Syria, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell.more

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to his younger brother Nick, who had cancer, after he died on Boxing Day at the age of 60. "My brother Nick was a wonderful man," Starmer said in a statement.more