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The European Commissioners in charge of the EU’s external action have pushed back against proposed cuts to the budget’s Global Europe instrument, warning that funding must match the bloc’s global ambitions.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, is seeking to become France’s next president on a hardline anti-EU platform, pledging to cut the country’s contributions to the EU budget and end funding for Ukraine.

Ireland, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, has proposed trimming the bloc’s next long-term budget by €141bn in a bid to win over the Germany-led ‘frugal’ countries.

The Oneworld alliance carrier will move its seasonal nonstop to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) from New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in 2027. The reason? The flight can operate on more than just Saturdays from JFK whereas it is restricted to that one day of the week from…

The hum of the kidney dialysis machine that Onasis Munoz is connected to suddenly stops. The fluorescent lights overhead flicker out, and his room at a clinic in Valencia, Venezuela, is plunged into darkness.

OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Severe problems in many parts of the Greek island of Crete have been caused by the powerful wave of bad weather that has been under way since Wednesday night.

BMW shares rose by more than 3% in the early afternoon in Europe on Wednesday as investors digested the German carmaker’s latest recovery plans, shared with investors and analysts at its two-day Capital Market Day event on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is a rollback to fuel economy numbers not seen in more than a decade, below…

Ukraine has cut its $27 billion (€23.7 billion) funding shortfall to $20 billion (€17.6 billion) through austerity measures, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said on Sunday, although he warned that it “remains an open question” how to plug the remaining gap.