Ukraine : Macron, Merz and Burnham Close Ranks as Russia Steps Up the War

The Coalition of the Willing for Ukraine meets this Monday, August 24 — the 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence — under the joint chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Andy Burnham. The meeting comes at an urgent moment: fighting is intensifying on the ground and Moscow is preparing a new mobilization, while in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky has just ruled out holding elections in wartime.

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The Lyhanna case: open season on judges

The disappearance and subsequent death of 11-year-old Lyhanna, whose body was found on June 4 in a grain silo in the Gers region, has triggered an unprecedented institutional crisis in France. Politicians are shifting the blame onto the prosecutors, who are doing the best they can with the resources at their disposal.

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But what does Putin want?

The Kremlin leader will meet with the US president on August 15 in Alaska to decide the fate of Ukraine. Trump no longer wants to finance this war. Putin no longer wants NATO missiles “on his doorstep.” Europe, ruined, no longer matters.

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Cattle slaughter scientifically unjustified

The systematic slaughter of cows due to lumpy skin disease (LDS) can be considered a scandal for a number of scientific, ethical, economic and health reasons.