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EUROPE
Britain Navigates a Growing Trade Imbalance with China
As its trade gap with Beijing hits £42 billion, London is pursuing a growth strategy that increasingly tests the enduring strategic patience of Washington.
BUSINESS
America Covets Greenland at the Cost of European Alliance
As Washington eyes a new Arctic frontier, the scramble for Greenland exposes a fragility in the European security order once anchored in voluntary restraint.
EUROPE
Brussels Drops the Lectures to Stay in the Mediterranean
Brussels is switching up how it deals with the Mediterranean, focusing on practical cooperation over pushing political changes.
BUSINESS
EU: Innovation or Protectionism? New Industrial Strategy Mirrors China
The EU plans to require Chinese firms to share technology for market access, echoing Beijing’s own rules and risking a new era of retaliatory protectionism.
BUSINESS
Europe’s AI Factories: Strategic Autonomy or Public Bubble?
As the race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, some experts, including OpenAI’s own chief, warn this investment spree could lead to costly overreach.
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Starlink, Grok and the Price of Private Infrastructure
As UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into X on 12 January 2026 over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes, including images of children, the case exposed how everyday life runs on systems voters never designed.
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on the Italy’s Winter Games
Cloudflare quits Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics security after Italy fine, sparking US-EU clash over piracy laws and censorship
Mudejar Ruins in Spain: Brickwork on the Edge
At 8:00 on Monday morning, a wall of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Muriel de Zapardiel collapsed, sending 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar brick crashing onto the ground and turning a quiet Valladolid village into the latest symbol of Spain's heritage crisis.
Poland’s Catholic Football Pilgrimage: Unity, Faith and a Hard Line on Migration
At a Marian shrine where football supporters gather to pray, a presidential call for “Poland without illegal immigrants” turned a devotional event into a political stage.
AfDB Turns to Gulf as Western Funders Step Back
The African Development Bank has installed a president with ingrained Gulf experience as Washington pulls back hundreds of millions
