Prezidentas Gitanas Nausėda Amerikos prekybos rūmų surengtoje 250-ųjų JAV nepriklausomybės metinių šventėje ketvirtadienį akcentavo stiprėjančius abiejų šalių ekonomikos, gynybos santykius.

Prezidentas Volodymyras Zelenskis, ketvirtadienį lankydamasis Rusijos smūgio viename iš Kyjivo rajonų vietoje, žurnalistams pranešė, kad vis dar tikisi JAV specialiųjų pasiuntinių vizito į Ukrainą.

The latest barrage deployed the largest number of weapons on the capital and hit locations over a wide area.

Around 600,000 followers of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic sect, are affected.

The government had initially said it would not relax licensing laws further than they already have been for the World Cup.

The airline calls on European governments to postpone the EES system until after the summer holiday period.

Leader of Spain’s center-right People’s Party Alberto Núñez Feijóo alleged Sánchez aimed to use migrants to expand his voter base following the government’s recent mass migrant legalization effort. “If we add up the number of immigrants who have entered Spain between 2019 and 2025, it’s four million, and now we’re adding 1.3 million with this legalization drive, and the 2.5 million that the government calls grandchildren,” the conservative leader said. “Seven or eight million citizens in seven years — no country can withstand that from a social, welfare, or cultural perspective.” When asked to elaborate, Feijóo said his accusations were in relation to the unrelated, so-called grandchildren’s law passed by Sánchez’s previous government in 2022. That legislation grants citizenship to the grandchildren of Spaniards who fled Spain as a result of the country’s civil war and Francisco Franco’s brutal dictatorship. Sánchez’s government called Feijóo’s comments “profoundly irresponsible” and said he had deliberately conflated two different policies. The beneficiaries of the legalization process that has just concluded cannot vote in Spanish regional or national elections because they are being granted resident permits, and voting rights are reserved for citizens. After being criticized for his inconsistency, Feijóo on Thursday appeared to reverse course. “We agree that a grandchild, where there is a very clear line of descent, should be entitled to Spanish citizenship,” he said during a speech in Santander, but added that he still believed the government had failed to be transparent while doing so. While Feijóo backtracked, the far-right Vox party renewed its criticism of the government’s migration policies, which parliamentary spokesperson José María Figaredo said amounted to “silent electoral fraud.” The party on Thursday called for a review of the existing legislation, as well as the suspension of mail-in voting rights for Spaniards living abroad, arguing the process was susceptible to manipulation and could result in a “delayed coup d’état.” Nearly 1.2 million unauthorized migrants applied for legal status within the framework of Spain’s mass legalization drive, the Spanish Ministry of Migration announced on Thursday. According to the Ministry, 609,737 of the 1,174,968 that applied before the June 30 deadline had already had their applications admitted for processing and received provisional residence and work permits. Nearly 11,000 applicants have already been granted full legal status under the terms of the extraordinary royal decree approved by the Spanish government last April. Migration Minister Elma Saiz noted that 67 percent of the applications had been filed by migrants from Central and South America. Colombians accounted for the largest share of applicants, followed by migrants from Morocco, Venezuela and Peru. The scheme, she added, allows “hundreds of thousands of people who already reside in our country, but with fear and without rights, to face the future with enthusiasm and hope.” The total number of applications filed far exceeds the government’s expectations. When the royal decree was approved, authorities anticipated that around 500,000 unauthorized migrants would seek legal status under the terms of the measure, which applies to people who had been living in Spain for at least five months and had no criminal record.

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Deezer Le podcast Playbook Paris se délocalise au parc Jourdan des Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, où se bousculent les politiques et la plupart des candidats à la présidentielle — à l’exception notable des responsables du RN et de LFI. Malgré les sondages (et les échanges qui se multiplient entre les lepénistes et le patronat), ils ne sont pas les bienvenus sur scène. ⁠On en discute avec Jason Wiels et Paul de Villepin, envoyés spéciaux de POLITICO à Aix, auteurs de la newsletter Paris Influence.

Spain immigration scheme sees more than a million applications, with Latin Americans leading the numbers at 67 percent.

Israel has rejected a UN Commission report that says its army deliberately targets Palestinian children.

UK financial watchdog also bans ‘double-dipping’ as it pushes to improve treatment of customers

More than twice the expected number of unauthorised immigrants applied for legal status, mostly from Latin America

Russian mercenaries from the Africa Corps, which has replaced the well-known Wagner Group in providing support to the Malian army, are deploying new combat drones in Mali. Frequently found on the frontlines in Ukraine, these drones are now entering the Sahel region – an environment for which they were not designed.

This week, Paris des Arts turns its cameras to Fez, the Moroccan imperial city, for the 29th edition of the Festival of World Sacred Music, which celebrates the dialogue between cultures and spiritualities.

Barefoot, arms raised and teeming with emotion, Ceuzany belts out the signature track from her latest album, a song dedicated to the fight against domestic violence, in a powerful voice that sends shivers through the Cape Verde bar

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Kinshasa on Thursday for a high-level African Union solidarity mission aimed at reinforcing continental support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo's response to its latest Ebola outbreak.