Authorities in the northern French city of Bully-les-Mines say that the driver of a high-speed TGV train was killed early Tuesday morning in a crash involving a loaded semi at a street-level crossing. A large contingent of emergency services and technical crews were quickly dispatched to the scene.
"NATO is broken,” says Ivo Daalder, not mincing his words. The former US ambassador to the transatlantic alliance believes that tensions between Donald Trump and European allies over the Iran war have thrust NATO, which turned 77 years old this month, into the "worst crisis” in its history.
The Trump administration is ignoring convention and has dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Hungary, where he will campaign for that country's longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban, who trails dramatically in polls ahead of upcoming elections on April 12.
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Taiwan's opposition leader Cheng Li-wun is on a rare visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping which as she says is for promoting cross-strait "peace."
Energy security has once again taken on urgent priority in the European Union, as the Iran war reveals how exposed many member states still are to abrupt oil and gas supply shocks — despite the lessons of Russia's full‑scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago.