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Feb 15, 2026 - World

Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’The EU’s foreign policy chief has denied claims levelled by the US that Europe is facing civilisational erasure, rejecting what she condemned as “fashionable euro-bashing” by Washington.Kaja Kallas also said the US was discovering that it could not settle the war in Ukraine without Europe’s involvement and consent. Continue reading...

Feb 15, 2026 - World

The Vanguard Cave in the Gorham's Cave Complex has been an area of interest among Gibraltar National Museum archaeologists since 2012.

Feb 15, 2026 - World

Axolotls, the frilly-headed salamanders that stay in their tadpole' form forever, have the ability to completely regrow their thymus, according to recent research.

Feb 15, 2026 - World

Talk of a stronger, independent Europe was the dominant mood in Munich amid bitter disagreement on UkraineIf JD Vance’s thuggish speech to last year’s Munich Security Conference, directed at the solar plexus of Europe, marked the moment when a transatlantic breakup started, this weekend’s conference, in a rainy and cold Bavaria, was where the debate about the terms of the divorce settlement got under way.Marco Rubio, the chosen Washington representative this year, is a diplomat, so he softened the Trumpian tone with references to German beer, the Beatles, Dante and the Mayflower. But his speech was a stern warning that if Europe wanted to continue on its path of civilisational decline, as this US administration sees it, America would not be interested and has different hemispheres on which to focus. Continue reading...

Feb 15, 2026 - World

Iran is ready to discuss issues related to its nuclear programme, but then the sanctions against it will also have to be on the table, an Iranian minister said, adding that "the ball is in America's court".