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Thursday, September 11, 2025
TopicEuropean Union

Topic: European Union

Global Pulse: Warehousing refugees to make Italy great again, Trump’s effort to polarise

Italy is off shoring its Mediterranean migration problem to a former colony, Libya, with the intention of preventing mostly sub-Saharan African migrants from leaving Libya’s shores for Europe.

Global Pulse: Trump is tired of leading the world, Theresa May is left alone on a sinking ship

Donald Trump is urging world leaders to become inward looking, and embracing and encouraging a post-American world.

Global Pulse: Netanyahu’s troubles see no end, N. Korean uni without its American staff

Benjamin Netanyahu's personal lawyer, the man he appointed as national security adviser, and former chief of staff has been arrested in connection with a grave corruption scandal.

Global Pulse: Europe’s plan to thwart the next migrant crisis, execution for Iran’s mystic

European leaders may have found a way to thwart the next big African crisis.

Global Pulse: GOP leaders won’t have Trump’s ‘fine people’ bigotry, making terror simpler

After his remarks on the violence in Charlottesville, Donald Trump is more isolated than ever even in his own party.

Global Pulse: French military chief quits, Suu Kyi’s press freedom reputation hit and Putin’s off limits for Hollywood

FRENCH MILITARY CHIEF QUITS IN FEUD WITH MACRON France’s top military officer, General Pierre de Villiers, resigned Wednesday, in response to a public feud with...

GLOBAL PULSE: EU, Japan sign free trade deal, Niger army kills 14 civilians by mistake and Cyprus talks end in stalemate

EU AND JAPAN SIGN FREE TRADE PACT After four years of negotiations, the European Union and Japan agreed Thursday to create the world’s largest free trade zone.

GLOBAL PULSE: Majority back Trump’s travel ban, EU blamed for refugee deaths and attack on politicians in Venezuela

PRO-GOVERNMENT MILITIAS ATTACK VENEZUELAN CONGRESS On Venezuelan Independence Day Wednesday a group of pro-government militias attacked opposition politicians with sticks and metal bars outside the country’s congress.

GLOBAL PULSE: Macron turns protectionist, China’s Orwellian crackdown in Xinjiang and Israeli women won’t have to give up their seats

MACRON WANTS PROTECTION Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron wants to revive an old French ambition, namely to protect French companies from cross-border takeovers on the grounds of “vital strategic interests”.

GLOBAL PULSE: Americans are not winning in Afghanistan, punishing nations that don’t take refugees and being blocked by Trump

FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT A STRATEGY US Defense Secretary James Mattis made an alarming admission: “We are not winning in Afghanistan right now.”

On Camera

Lifting night shift ban increased female employment in India—only among big firms

Discriminatory laws limit firms from hiring willing women, and removing such barriers can help narrow the economic gap between developing and developed countries.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

‘Foreign policy rests on hard power’—from 1965 Indo-Pak war to Op Sindoor, key takeaways for India

A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?