Who Escaped The EU’s Latest Sanctions, And Brussels’ Security Guarantees For Ukraine

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL’s newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe’s Eastern neighborhoods. I’m RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: What was removed from the latest EU sanctions on…

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Russian Black Sea Oil Facility On Fire Again After Ukrainian Strike

Ukrainian drones hit the large Russian Black Sea oil facility terminals at Tuapse for the third time in 12 days, sparking another billowing fire and prompting evacuations. The April 28 attack, which Ukraine’s military confirmed, came soon after firefighters extinguished the blazes from previous attacks. The region now faces a looming environmental disaster, with large…

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Netcompany-Ineos Cycling Team: Giro d’Italia launch for AI company deal

Pogacar’s UAE-Team Emirates-XRG wealth comes from the region’s oil resources and so appears limitless, while other big-budget teams are the Netherlands’ Visma-Lease a Bike of two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard and Germany’s Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe who have Belgian superstar and Olympic road and time trial champion Remco Evenepoel. In a past three seasons, Ineos Grenadiers have…

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