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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Doha on Tuesday for a state visit and talks with Qatar’s emir, after securing pledges of additional energy supplies from Gulf partners during his regional tour.

Russian state-owned companies spent more than three times as much on landline telephones in the first eight months this year as in the same period in 2025, as mobile internet shutdowns affecting nearly 80% of the country push ministries and businesses to seek alternatives to disrupted networks.

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is seeking to have one of its politicians elected president of a state parliament today, as lawmakers in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt meet for the first time since the party won elections there a few weeks ago.

The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a “reckless, unacceptably risky product” without the deployment of “third-party approved safety guardrails.”

China’s president Xi Jinping was wrapping up his much-anticipated state visit to the United States on Friday, with details of his talks with US president Donald Trump still to emerge on the thorny issues that define what Xi called as the “healthy competition” between the two global powers.

A meeting yesterday between US President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping was closely watched in Europe, as every meaningful agreement between Washington and Beijing also has an impact on the EU. EU Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné and Ian Lesser, distinguished fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, share their takes on this…

After a nearly monthlong delay, states are now able to order this season’s COVID-19 vaccines through a federal program that provides free immunizations to low-income children, the US health department says. Trump officials have still not provided a clear explanation for the delay, raising concerns about meddling from anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.