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France on Monday adopted a 2026 government budget, following months of negotiations and no-confidence motions in Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's minority government. "France finally has a budget," Lecornu wrote on X after the vote, hailing a "parliamentary compromise" which "curbs public spending" and "does not hike taxes for households and businesses." Lecornu survives challenges left and right

When the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB) named Harold Kreis as the men's national team head coach three years ago, many observers saw his appointment as something of a no-brainer. By then, he'd simply seen and done it all in German hockey. But the Winnipeg native's arrival in the Ice Hockey Bundesliga, the predecessor to Germany's topflight

Anyone who has had the displeasure of finding a parking spot in a major city knows it can take a very long time to strike gold. Los Angeles residents sacrifice more than 80 hours a year hunting for a place to leave their cars and from London to Frankfurt, the situation in other urban centers is not

When US President Donald Trump referred to Greenland as "a piece of ice" during his recent speech at the World Eonomic Forum in Davos, the remark jarred: Greenland has been inhabited for close to five millennia and is home to over 56,000 people, mostly of Inuit descent.  It also echoed a long‑standing pattern by colonial powers to apply their own ideas of

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Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied on Sunday to support President Petr Pavel in his dispute with the country's foreign minister. In an escalating rift with the government, ⁠Pavel last ‍week accused Foreign Minister Petr Macinka of attempted blackmail over a cabinet post. At the core of the dispute is Pavel's continued opposition to Filip

Denmark became European men's handball champions for the first time in over a decade on Sunday night, beating Germany 34-27 in the final on home soil in Herning. The Danes, co-hosts and reigning world champions, went into the final as favorites and lived up to expectations, only falling behind for a single minute in the

It is a bitterly cold winter's day in the central Anatolian Turkish city of Tokat. The thermometer says it's -3 degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit). Sunduz Akkan, a mother of three, bundles up and heads to the Sik Makas factory where she worked until October. The plant's roughly 1,700 employees stopped getting their paychecks in mid-2025.

The second round of US-backed trilateral peace talks involving Ukraine and Russia will take place next week in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday. Zelenskyy said the new round would take ⁠place on February 4 and 5, and that his country is ready for a "substantive discussion." "We are interested in ensuring

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz paid tribute to Rita Süssmuth as a "great politician" and a "guiding light for our democratic society." Süssmuth died on Sunday, less than two weeks before she would have turned 89. As a federal minister and president of the German Bundestag during the 1980s and 90s, Süssmuth had been "a role model