🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has ordered staff travelling to the World Cup to undergo special training in anticipation of rioting in the United States, Canada and Mexico
@ben_rumsby has the full story ⤵️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/05/02/bbc-spend-thousands-riot-training-world-cup-staff-ice-trump/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_world-cup-staff-ice-trump/
Immerhin wissen die Schüler des Carolus-Magnus-Gymnasiums in Marsberg jetzt, dass der deutsche Bundeskanzler den amerikanischen Präsidenten für einen strategischen Tölpel hält.
Dieser Thread von @ulrichspeck trifft es auf den Punkt 👇
Sehr relevant ist nicht nur, was Trump als Teil der 5000 Soldaten aus Deutschland abziehen will, sondern auch, was nicht mehr kommen soll:
Die unter Biden angekündigte Stationierung eines US-Langstreckenwaffen-Battalions nämlich.
Kurz zuvor telefonierte Trump mit Putin. Die genauen Inhalte des Gesprächs sind nicht bekannt, aber Putin hat immer sehr gegen diese Langstrecken-Stationierung in Deutschland (zur Abschreckung Russlands!) lobbyiert.
Quelle: Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-withdrawing-5000-troops-germany-us-officials-say-2026-05-01/
Exclusive: Inside the faltering talks between the Trump administration and Spirit Airlines
Details on a private call between Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Spirit’s CEO where the two agreed it was over.
Read how it all went down as Spirit prepared for the end
Team effort w/ @alyrose @gladstonea
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/spirit-airlines-deal-what-happened-7e489dcf?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1
Kash Patel's other defamation lawsuit, brought by the same lawyers who sued The Atlantic, is dismissed
(Reuters) - Military planners from more than 30 countries will hold two-day talks in London from Wednesday to advance a mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and draw up detailed plans, the British government said.
Excited to join the Global Reporting Network and contribute to six brands across three countries while continuing to report on the White House for @politico!
Reach out on Signal @sophiacai.99
and subscribe to West Wing Playbook:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook
Je découvre que le groupe Axel Springer s’est constitué un petit groupe de journalistes d’investigation, afin de coordonner/mutualiser des enquêtes pour ses différents médias en Allemagne et aux Etats-Unis
Thrilled to be joining the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network! @AxelSpringerGRN
In addition to my reporting for @BusinessInsider, I'll be contributing reporting across Axel's brands, like @politico and @BILD, to produce work with global impact.
Excited to be joining the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network!
I’ll be continuing my work at Business Insider covering major court cases and the Epstein files, with an emphasis on stories that have a global impact.
Here’s one of my Epstein stories in Die Welt!
R to @Tim_Roehn: Our landing page at @axelspringer: https://www.axelspringer.com/en/who-we-are/axel-springer-global-reporters-network
Follow our new Global Reporters: @SophiaCai99 @JayShams @NicoleEinbinder
🔴3 amazing colleagues become Global Reporters working on scoops & investigations for our 6 brands:
– Sophia Cai, White House reporter at @politico
– Nicole Einbinder, investigative reporter @BusinessInsider
– Jacob Shamsian, courts reporter (BI)
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-expands-global-reporters-network
"The California state treasurer took thousands in campaign donations from the founder of a Chinese boarding school at the center of a bombshell fraud probe."
The @nypost picks up @NicoleEinbinder's reporting about @fionama.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/us-news/california-republicans-call-for-special-legislative-session-on-fraud/
Investigation by our Global Reporter @NicoleEinbinder.
Iran war accelerates America’s breakup with the world http://dlvr.it/TS7mXB
Crazy story out of Qatar:
A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her.
The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite.
Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws.
Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant.
In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.
#ÚLTIMAHORA | El Gobierno de Cuba confirma una reunión en la isla con representantes de Estados Unidos.
California Treasurer @fionama has ties to a private Chinese boarding school under scrutiny.
The school was the subject of a scathing audit issued last month by #California education officials.
Reporting by @NicoleEinbinder:
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-treasurer-fiona-ma-tied-to-pegasus-california-school-china-2026-4
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://bbc.in/4tkKWyi
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran war began and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come, according to analysts and Reuters calculations.
(Reuters) - The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come, according to analysts and Reuters calculations.
Hungary’s new leader Péter Magyar is racing against the clock to regain access to billions of euros in EU funds.
At the same time, he must satisfy a long list of demands from Brussels.
🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/peter-magyar-hungary-election-brussels-ties-reset-eu-funding/
Iran's military reimposed strict control over the Strait of Hormuz, demanding that the U.S. must lift its blockade of Iranian ports before the vital waterway is opened again, a spokesperson for the joint military command said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-strait-of-hormuz-irgc-gunboats-fire-on-tanker/
Germany’s leaders insist the atomic exit is final.
Inside a dismantled reactor, that certainty looks less than convincing.
🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-berlin-nuclear-is-over-the-debate-isnt/
Das riecht nach perfektem Timing – oder nach einem handfesten Skandal! Nur rund 20 Minuten, bevor der iranische Außenminister am vergangenen Freitag verkündete, dass die Straße von Hormus wieder geöffnet sei, setzten Investoren eine gigantische Wette: satte 760 Millionen Dollar auf fallende Ölpreise! Was dann passierte, ließ die Märkte beben: Kaum war die Nachricht draußen, rauschte der Ölpreis in den Minuten danach um bis zu 11 Prozent nach unten. Wusste da jemand schon vorher Bescheid? Der Verdacht auf Insider-Handel liegt nahe.
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/kurz-vor-hormus-meldung-verdaechtige-wette-auf-sinkende-oelpreise-69e337938a212bc0a08d3d2f
Schön, dass der Kollege diesen sehr guten Kommentar noch mal teilt.
Leihmutterschaft ist in Deutschland zurecht verboten. Sofern dann ein hochrangiger Politiker, zumal einer Regierungspartei, ins Ausland reist, um geltende Gestze zu umgehen, wäre das völlig inakzeptabel.
Jan Philipp Burgard will become a Global Reporter, leading Middle East coverage based in Tel Aviv. He will assume the role following his full recovery from major heart surgery. He succeeds Constantin Schreiber. // @AxelSpringerGRN
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/jan-philipp-burgard-to-become-global-reporter-at-axel-springer?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
EXCLUSIVE @TheAtlantic On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=AwR_TGzSRSLueG5W7xh0ResXNy-HwbaDp8IodBg6FCU
NOW - Trump says very soon the "great strength" of the American military will create "a new dawn for Cuba."
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇺Scoop: U.S. State Dept officials met last Friday in Havana with their Cuban counterparts —including Raulito “El Cangrejo” Castro, the grandson of Raul Castro
Here’s what we know about the historic meeting👇
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/cuba-negotiations-trump-havana-castro
NEW: Susie wiles and James Blair are convening dozens of political operatives at the Waldorf Astoria on Monday to prepare for the midterms. The gathering is aimed at sharing data and strategy & aligning on how best to support candidates.
Jan Philipp Burgard to Become Global Reporter at Axel Springer https://go2.as/4mAvn3d
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact with the group and two airport sources. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/first-deportees-us-arrive-congo-capital-sources-say-2026-04-17/?taid=69e24649ba4ee50001ee0873&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
There are a lot of hard to swallow statements in this by Infantino but perhaps the most brazen is claiming FIFA doesn’t make money off ticket resales when in fact it takes a 30% commission on every resold ticket.
Exclusive: The #Trump administration expects the Iranian team to come to the U.S. for the World Cup,
Story by @SophiaCai99:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/trump-administration-expects-iranian-team-to-travel-to-u-s-for-world-cup-00877914
A US Navy MQ-4 high-altitude surveillance drone continues to conduct an extensive reconnaissance mission of Cuba this evening.
The drone is now loitering just off Havana.
In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest.
@ElizLanders reports.
A Franco-German rift is emerging over whether to try to involve the U.S. in tentative European plans to secure the Strait of Hormuz ahead of a leaders’ summit in Paris tomorrow.
https://politi.co/3OKHLB2
»Die Wahl von Péter Magyar ist ein kleines Wunder. Im Interview erklärt Péter Nádas, der bedeutendste Schriftsteller Ungarns, wie sich sein Land von Orbán befreien konnte.«
Lesenswert.
Von @VWeidermann
(Freebie)
https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2026-04/peter-nadas-schriftsteller-ungarn-wahl-viktor-orban?freebie=80a8a7f0