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For almost two years, Ukraine’s ambition to one day join the European Union has been defined not by its progress but by its lack thereof. Hungary’s veto, imposed in June 2024 and since entrenched, has effectively paralysed Ukraine’s membership application, pushing Kyiv and Brussels towards informal avenues to advance the legal and technical work in the hope of a breakthrough. As a result, Ukraine today finds itself in a highly unusual position: on paper, it is ready to open the six clusters of negotiations that structure the accession process, but in practice, it is unable to open any of them.…

The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in nearly seven years landed on Thursday from Miami bound for Caracas, marking a significant step in the reactivation of connections between the two countries. The operation, by US carrier American Airlines, symbolises the gradual re-establishment of air links…

At the 4 Loads Disposal Compound in Kelowna, B.C., heavy loads are a normal part of business but operators say  there’s a different kind of load they are being forced to carry, one that is financially hurtful. “It’s just an added, added cost and an added burden,” said Colton Sobchak,…

Officials announced Thursday that a doctor and his son have been accused of operating a family-run pill mill in New York, in what authorities describe as a brazen abuse of medical authority to fuel the illegal distribution of prescription drugs. Over a roughly three-month period in 2022, the physician allegedly wrote…

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