Kosovo ruling party set to come first in election, causing a new headache for the EU and Trump
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Is it a coincidence that the far right growth is linked to Trump’s presidency? The extremists enabling the far right expand its network on a global scale, shows the enemies are no longer Russia or China, they are from Wall Street. Enabling the far right to expand its network Representatives of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Argentina’s President Javier Milei, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage from the UK were all among the guests at US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. No prizes for guessing the common link between them, but significantly the…
Namibia’s founding father Sam Nujoma dies at 95. Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerilla leader who went on to become Namibia’s first elected president, died on Saturday at the age of 95. The Namibian Presidency made the announcement via social media on Sunday. Struggle against apartheid As the leader of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), he led guerrilla fighters in an armed struggle against apartheid South Africa Defence Forces from 1960 to 1989. Namibia’s founding father Sam Nujoma dies at 95 “It is with utmost sorrow and sadness that I announce this morning of the 9th of February…
The United States was consolidated before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the main origin of the oil arrived in Spain in 2024, a period in which Brazil seconded him among the main countries of origin of the oil arrived in the country. According to the statistics of the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products (CORES), as in 2023 the United States led oil exports to Spain in 2024, by increasing its shipments to the country by 17.7%, reaching 10.25 million tons (Mt). With this, it monopolized 15.9% of the oil that entered Spain, 1.8 points more than in…
No presidential election in 2025 in Ukraine despite being pushed by Trump. When will Ukraine hold a presidential election? It was postponed because of the war with Russia, but it is now almost three years since the start of the Russian invasion, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being asked about it more and more often. When will Ukraine hold a presidential election? He always gives the same response: “The hot phase of the war will end, and when martial law is lifted, elections will be announced,” the Ukrainian president said earlier this week, in an interview with the British journalist Piers…
An American federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend some 2,200 employees and eliminate the United States International Development Agency (USAID) on Friday to consider that it is a fraudulent agency. Two employee representatives had previously filed a lawsuit, arguing that Donald Trump’s government had no authority to suspend employees, as reported by US media such as ‘The New York Times’. The judge clarified that his ruling was provisional while the litigation continued. At the beginning of this week, the US government announced that all “staff directly hired” that would work for the agency anywhere in the world…
What do USAID cutbacks mean for development aid. The decision by US President Donald Trump to suspend development aid has brought US-funded projects in around 130 countries to a standstill. This has had dramatic consequences for millions of people and humanitarian aid workers around the world. Trump has accused the development agency USAID of wastefulness. On February 6, he wrote on his “Truth Social” platform “Looks like billions of dollars have been stolen at USAID.” He did not provide any evidence. What do USAID cutbacks mean for development aid? Opposition politicians in the US have accused Trump of jeopardizing the global…
The Missing Alaska plane found, all 10 on board believed dead and all ten on board a passenger plane that went missing over Alaska are believed to be dead, the US Coast Guard said after locating the wreckage on sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome. The US Coast Guard initially reported that three bodies had been found inside the wreckage and then said the remaining seven were also believed to be inside the aircraft but were “inaccessible due to the condition of the plane.” Missing Alaska plane found The plane, which was carrying nine passengers and a pilot,…
The Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE) has published this Friday, February 7, the Order of the Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Elena Manzano, which sets the conditions and criteria for applying the extension of the General Budgets of The Community of Extremadura for 2024 in the exercise of 2025. The order includes the regulatory framework in which the automatic extension of the budgets approved by law 1/2024, of February 5, of general budgets of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura is regulated by the year 2024 until they are approved, publish and enter in force the new by 2025. This…
Israeli forces said late Thursday it had struck two sites that allegedly contained weapons belonging to the Hezbollah group, a Hamas ally, despite a separate ceasefire deal in that country. Israel’s forces “conducted a precise strike in Lebanese territory on two military sites that contained Hezbollah weapons, which were in violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the Israeli army said in a statement on social media platform X. Previously-sporadic fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on 8 October 2023, following Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel. Ceasefire agreement extended until mid-February Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a truce in November 2024, after 13 months of conflict between Israeli…
Authorities in Greece on Thursday moved to declare a state of emergency on the island of Santorini as persistent tremors continued hiking fears of a possible bigger earthquake. The region has been rattled by thousands of tremors and more than a hundred earthquakes since January 26. Emergency measures in effect until March 3 The Greek Civil Protection Ministry issued the declaration that allows authorities to quickly mobilize heavy equipment and emergency personnel. The ministry said the declaration would be in force from February 1 and would remain in effect until March 3. Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Thursday said Greece’s “entire state mechanism…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa came out in defense of his country and said South Africa will not be bullied by Trump during a national address on Thursday, asserting that South Africa would not be bullied by the US administration and Elon Musk. Elon Musk is at odds with the South African government, primarily for domestic DEI issues but also because the are at odds over the Rwanda and DR Congo conflict. On the one side you have the RDF and the M23 rebel group and on the other you SADC (Southern African Development Community) and the DR Congo army.…
Is Ethiopia’s Tigray on the brink of a fresh conflict, is it ready to explode. Insecurity in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has noticeably increased in the last few days. Many Tigrayans told WTX they are afraid that recent political tensions within the once-dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) could lead to renewed violence — more than two years after one of Ethiopia’s deadliest conflicts claimed nearly 600,000 lives. Amid soaring prices, some Tigray locals have stormed banks to withdraw money to buy and hoard food and other essential goods. Something that is happening throughout Africa. Many gas stations have run…
The European Central Bank has a new reason to be optimistic. One of the last pieces that lack the ECB to be able to sing victory in its fight against inflation is to get salaries to moderate their growth in the euro zone, and these are already beginning to give encouraging signs for the Central Bank. The favorite ECB indicator to anticipate future movements in the salary front has given this week a great joy to the central bank: the growth rate has been moderated so much, that it has fallen to the lowest level of the last inflationary crisis,…
The Aga Khan, imam of the Ismaili Muslims, has died “peacefully” at the age of 88 in Lisbon, his foundation announced on Tuesday. “His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), passed away peacefully in Lisbon on 4 February 2025, aged 88, surrounded by his family,” the Aga Khan Foundation posted on social media. “The announcement of his designated successor will follow,” it added in relation to who could become the fifth person to hold the post since the 19th century. Who was the…
The recovery plan announced by the Generalitat Valenciana and that has not yet been reflected in any document will have as main actors the PWC consultant and the state company Tragsatec. Both will jointly receive 4.5 million for consulting and assistance to prepare the road map to face the day after the DANA and try to recover the levels prior to destruction. The Second Vice Presidency and Department for the economic and social recovery occupied PWC through an emergency procedure. Although Gan Pampols publicly assured that a contest was held to which four consulting firms were presented, the truth is…
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered military airstrikes on a senior “Islamic State” attack planner and others from the terror network in Somalia. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump said on Truth Social. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.” Strikes coordinated with Somalia’s government The strikes were carried out in the Golis Mountains, a range on the northern coast of the Somali Peninsula, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding that the mission was coordinated with Somalia’s government. An…
Beethoven or birds — but no room on new euro notes for Irish cultural icons The European Central Bank (ECB) is considering using European cultural figures on the front of its next series of euro banknotes but 14 of the 20 countries that use the currency, including Ireland, will not be represented. In an update on this long-running plan to update the euro banknotes, the ECB announced that it has selected motifs to illustrate the two possible themes for future euro banknotes. The first option, ‘European culture’, focuses on shared cultural spaces and famous Europeans. The second is ‘Rivers and birds’ and…
President Zelensky says Russia attacking own civilians in Kursk. As Ukraine accused Russia of bombing a boarding school sheltering civilians in the Russian town of Sudzha, which is currently occupied by Ukraine. At the same time, Russian officials said Kyiv was behind the air strike, which they described as a “crime.” “Russian aviation struck a boarding school in the town of Sudzha, Kursk region, with a guided aerial bomb,” the Ukrainian army’s general staff said on Telegram. “The strike was carried out on purpose.” Ukrainian officials said at least four people were dead. Kyiv deployed its forces across the Russian…
Donald Trump’s approach is clear: make immigration and asylum more difficult, deport undocumented immigrants, close the borders. He has already signed several executive orders to implement his plans. Executive orders allow a US president to take action without the approval of Congress. Though Trump seems to be making particularly extensive use of this tool, they are not uncommon as a means of taking urgent measures or concretizing existing laws. What do Trump’s executive orders mean for migrants? Executive orders can be challenged in court if they are deemed to be unconstitutional or to interfere with the powers of the states. They…
What is happening in the DR Congo now? The M23 rebel group was advancing towards another city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a UN expert said on Friday, just days after seizing the key eastern city of Goma, which is close to the Rwandan border. Large parts of the city are now under rebel control in what’s considered the worst escalation of a long-running conflict in more than a decade. The M23 have been financed and armed extensively to take on a country the size of the DRC. The world media would have you believe that this…
The third sector of Social Action conducted 47 million interventions in 2023 and its action in economic terms, accounts for 1.44% of GDP-with economic revenues slightly above 19,000 million euros per year–, according to The Barometer of the Third Sector of Social Action (TSAS), presented by the Social Action NGO platform at the headquarters of the Eleven Foundation of Madrid. Among other data, the document reveals that the sector has more than 600,000 salaried people; That 7 out of 10 are women and more than 70% have university studies, and that there are about 1.5 million volunteers. The barometer is…
A small plane carrying 6 crashes in Philadelphia. It was a medical plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the US city of Philadelphia on Friday. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the company that operated the plane, said its aircraft was carrying six people. The plane crashed near shopping mall in a residential area. That included four crew members, one child medical patient and the patient’s mother on board. There is no confirmation that any survived, the company said. Small plane carrying 6 crashes in Philadelphia All six people on the plane were Mexican nationals, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said. The ministry added on…
A total of 422 million euros. This is the figure that Aragon would stop receiving with the elimination of the criteria of depopulation and orography within the framework of autonomous financing. Of this amount, about 320.9 million euros would correspond to the orography, while 101.1 million euros would be for depopulation. They are the initial calculations that have been made in the Department of Finance after yesterday a document was received from the central government in which the absence of sufficient consensus to contemplate these two criteria is aimed to contemplate these two criteria -Despoblation and Orography-, In regional financing.…
Trump threatens BRICS with tariffs if they replace US dollar. The US President did not hold back and threatened BRICS member states with 100% tariffs on Thursday to dissuade them from replacing the US dollar as reserve currency. Donald Trump had made a similar statement right after winning the November 2024 elections. Trump threatens BRICS with tariffs “We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty US dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs,” he said on his Truth social media…
