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Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, bottom left, Keir Starmer, UK’s prime minister, bottom center, and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, bottom second right, and other world leaders at a family photo during a summit at Lancaster House in London, UK, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Starmer is hosting Zelenskiy and more than a dozen other European leaders to discuss security guarantees the continent can offer Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. Photographer: Neill Hall/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EU leaders rally to ‘re-arm Europe’ with $860 billion defense plan as U.S. announces new talks with Kyiv

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), at a rates decision news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. The European Central Bank lowered interest rates for the sixth time since June and indicated that its cutting phase may be drawing to a close as inflation cools and the economy digests seismic shifts in geopolitics. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images

European Central Bank lowers rates again to 2.5%, with biggest hint yet on direction of future cuts

By Sam Reeves and AFP

TOPSHOT – In this photo taken on February 23, 2025 alleged scam centre workers and victims rest during a crackdown operation by the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) on illicit activity, at the border checkpoint with Thailand in Myanmar’s eastern Myawaddy township. Hundreds of foreigners are being sent home from scam compounds in Myanmar that are run by criminal gangs, with many workers saying they were trafficked and forced to swindle people around the world in protracted internet scams. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Thailand pushes to repatriate 1,500 Chinese workers freed from Myanmar scam centers each week

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IDDESLEIGH, ENGLAND – JULY 21: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales holds a pint of ale as he visits the Duke of York Inn to join author Sir Michael Morpurgo at a lunch club for local residents, with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall during Day 3 of their visit to Devon and Cornwall on July 21, 2021 in Iddesleigh, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

‘The pint is safe with us’: Under threat from a change to metric, British Lords vote to safeguard the cherished measure

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Lufthansa crew members dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes (Trachten crew) are seen during a photo shooting ahead of their flight to Osaka, at Franz Josef Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, on September 20, 2024. During the next two weeks, Lufthansa crews fly on selected flights in traditional clothes. The world’s largest beer festival Oktoberfest opens its 189th edition on Saturday, September 21, 2024, and runs until October 6 on the Theresienwiese (Therese’s Meadow), shortened by locals to the “Wiesn”. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP) (Photo by MICHAELA STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Lufthansa vows turnaround plan to lift 2025 earnings, amid profit drop due to strikes, rising costs and aircraft delays

By Sam Reeves and AFP

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the Tesla automotive plant in Gruenheide, Germany, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The power supply at Tesla’s electric-vehicle factory near Berlin was restored on Monday evening at 8:45 p.m. local time. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Calls for EU to declare how much funding goes to billionaire Musk’s firms—amid rising tension between bloc and U.S.

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Cambridge. England. 24-November-2024. Bar Hill Tesla showroom building

Tesla’s U.K. sales rise with growing EV adoption, despite European backlash over Elon Musk

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C-17A Globemaster of the 172nd Airlift squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This unit is tasked with the homebringing of wounded or fallen soldiers.

‘If they pull the plug here, we will be socially destroyed’ says the German people as they struggle to imagine life without U.S. airbase

By Léa Pernelle, Louis van Boxel-Woolf, and others

BEIJING, CHINA – MARCH 5: Chinese Premier Li Qiang passes President Xi Jinping as he walks to make a speech at the opening session of the National Peoples Congress, or NPC, at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2025 in Beijing, China. China’s annual political gathering known as the Two Sessions will convene leaders and lawmakers to set the government’s agenda for domestic economic and social development for the year. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China sets out its economic plan for 2025: Five percent growth, more defense spending, and more generous old age benefits

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An attendee engages with a differentiated connectivity demonstration in the Ericsson AB pavilion at the MWC25 tech show in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The Mobile World Congress tech show runs March 3-6. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Color-changing smartphones, connected cars and smart contact lenses: the gadgets of Mobile World Congress 2025

By Valentin Bontemps, Mona Guichard, and others

WADDINGTON, LINCOLNSHIRE – FEBRUARY 28: Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, Defence Secretary John Healey and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves host a roundtable with the defence sector as they visit RAF Waddington on February 28, 2025 in Waddington, United Kingdom. Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, Defence Secretary John Healey are hosting a roundtable event with the defence sector. (Photo by Yui Mok-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

U.K. vows to fast-track military purchases to help secure Europe amid Ukraine fallout

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MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 27: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Image has been retouched at the request of the subject.) Gawon attends the Prada Fall/Winter 2025 Womenswear fashion show during Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025 on February 27, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Prada)

Italian luxury house Prada defies downturn with $884 million profit as Versace rumors swirl

By Brigitte Hagemann and AFP

Leader of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk wears a shirt that says “Tech Support” as he speaks during the first cabinet meeting of US President Donald Trump’s second term in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk spared by Royal Society after 150 members meet to debate his expulsion over ‘misinformation and ideologically motivated attacks’

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA – FEBRUARY 26: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin grimaces during his meeting with Guinea-Bissau’s Presdent Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the Grand Kremlin Palace on February 26, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. Umaro Sissoku Embalo is in Russia for a state visit. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Peace in Ukraine could trigger more Russian ‘hostile activity’ across Europe, Finland’s spy agency warns

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26 June 2024, Lower Saxony, Borkum: A wind turbine stands in the harbor of the North Sea island. Photo: Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa (Photo by Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Berlin warns Chinese wind turbines planned in the North Sea pose risk of espionage and political influence

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