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France's diplomatic withdrawal from Burkina Faso marks the end of decades of Françafrique influence in the Sahel, with implications for regional security, migration and Russia's growing role.
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Trump says he will lift the CAATSA sanctions imposed on Turkey over its Russian S-400 purchase and will decide on selling F-35s. If it holds, it heals a five-year NATO rift — but it also rehabilitates the very deal that triggered the punishment. Here's the through-line to watch.
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Trump says Washington will drop the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey and weigh an F-35 sale, a deal struck face-to-face with Erdoğan that could rewire NATO's eastern flank. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what remains unconfirmed.
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At the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump's freeloader broadside meets a German pushback from Wadephul, even as allies line up a $160bn pledge for Ukraine. The clash is less about one insult than about who leads European burden-sharing — and whether Berlin can carry it.
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The Reform funding scandals are a compliance question and a geopolitical one at once: foreign money, a proposed cap on donations, and a transition of power that reopens the UK–EU relationship.
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A Paris appeals court decides today whether to uphold Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling EU funds — and, with it, a five-year ban on holding public office that could bar her from the 2027 presidential race. Here is who decides, by what mechanism, and what follows.
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At least 18 people, including four police officers, were wounded by explosions in Damascus on Tuesday as French President Emmanuel Macron met Syria's new leadership, according to Syrian and international reports.
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NATO leaders gather in Ankara under a Trump pressure campaign over defence spending, with Ukraine support and a fractured transatlantic bond hanging in the balance. Here's what's actually being decided — and what to watch.