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‘Despicable’ attack on Trump signals a shift in Europe

A dispute in Poland is emerging as a key test of Europe’s willingness to speak out against its NATO ally.

  • David Crowe

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Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photograph that appears in the files.

‘A special place in hell’: New taskforce to hunt down ‘scouts’ who sent girls to Epstein

Investigators will target a network that recruited girls from across Europe – including a contact who told him of a dancer from Queensland.

  • David Crowe
Donald Tusk visits the scene where a passenger train was forced to come to an emergency stop.

Poland says Russia-linked Ukrainians behind rail sabotage

“A certain line has been crossed,” said Donald Tusk says as more details emerge of the incident that forced a passenger train to make an emergency stop.

  • Agnieszka Barteczko and Piotr Bujnicki
US President Donald Trump

Trump says Russian drone breach in Poland may have been a ‘mistake’

The US president’s take was in contrast to European leaders, who said the incursion had been an “unprecedented provocation”.

  • Catherine Lucey
Donald Trump meets European leaders at the White House last month.

As Trump dithers, Putin brings crazy danger to Europe

It is an extraordinary moment when Russian forces can fly 19 drones into Polish airspace without any penalty.

  • David Crowe
On the campaign trail, Karol Nawrocki assailed Prime Minister Donald Tusk for, in his telling, jeopardising Poland’s traditionally strong relations with the United States.

Caught between two Wests, Poland tilts towards the Trumpian model

After Romania’s recent rejection of a nationalist candidate who had declared himself a “candidate on the MAGA ticket”, liberals had hoped that Europe’s right-wing populist wave was receding. Those hopes evaporated on Monday.

  • Andrew Higgins
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) talks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the parade in Moscow on Friday.

Zelensky says Ukraine ‘ready to meet’ as Putin offers direct talks

Ukraine’s president says Vladimir Putin’s comments are “a positive sign that the Russians have finally begun to consider ending the war”.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet onboard a train en route to Kyiv.

European leaders unite, call Trump to propose unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine war

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland have joined with Ukraine to propose an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.

  • Tom Balmforth
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A composite conundrum for the Old Continent

And an international roast for coffee snobs.

A sign marks entrance to Germany at the German-Polish border in Frankfurt an der Oder.

Germany is tightening border controls. How will it affect the EU?

The immigration crackdown will start next week. What happens to the free movement in the European Schengen zone?

  • Sarah Marsh, Jan Lopatka and Alan Charlish