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Washington will withdraw roughly 14% of its troop presence in Germany following Chancellor Friedrich Merz's criticism of US Iran-war strategy, in a move that has rattled NATO allies.
Etzella Ettelbruck and Sparta Bertrange entered the men's Total League final after a tightly compressed top of the table; on the women's side, T71 and Contern booked the Enovos League final.
The largest US grid operator forecasts a 6 GW reliability shortfall by 2027 as AI data-centre load surges. Operators are racing to build behind-the-meter generation while the politics catch up.
The fifth European Political Community summit drew nearly fifty heads of state to Yerevan on 4 May, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's attendance putting Armenia on a collision course with the Kremlin.
On 3 May 2026, the White House announced an operation to escort merchant vessels stranded by Iranian pressure through the Strait of Hormuz. Two ships have already been moved; the UAE reports intercepting Iranian missiles and drones.
The new Robots-to-Goods category combines mobile robots, robotic picking arms and AI perception into a single fleet, claiming a 90% reduction in manual labour and deployment in weeks rather than years.
Doha's Hamad International, one of the world's busiest hubs, is reopening in May 2026 after airspace restrictions tied to the Iran-Israel conflict began in late February. Major carriers are returning amid a fragile regional ceasefire.
Russian forces ceded roughly 120 square kilometres in Ukraine between March and April 2026, the first monthly net loss since the Ukrainian counter-offensive of summer 2023.
In his Sunday Regina Caeli address on 3 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV condemned violations of media freedom and paid tribute to journalists killed in Gaza, Lebanon and Mexico, lending Vatican weight to a growing international concern.
The Luxembourg Association of Professional Journalists (ALJP) marked its centenary on 2 May 2026. Days later, ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the government and the Luxembourg Commission for UNESCO underscored the role of independent media.
The Grand Ducal Police announced that the central Luxembourg City station now operates round the clock, part of a broader push to strengthen visible police presence in strategic locations.
After 25 years of negotiation, the EU's free-trade agreement with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay started applying provisionally on 1 May 2026, cutting tariffs on cars, pharmaceuticals and most agri-food.
An in-person 27-30 April negotiating round closed three chapters of the Mercosur-Canada free-trade agreement, the most concrete progress on the file since talks resumed in 2024.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, SpaceX and Reflection AI are in. Anthropic is out, after refusing to let Claude be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
On 1 May 2026, the Pentagon announced a partial drawdown of US forces in Germany, fulfilling a Trump threat made amid public clashes with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over defence spending and trade.
Member states ended the resumed sixth IGWG session in Geneva on 1 May without agreeing the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex, deferring to a seventh meeting on 6-17 July and to the 2027 World Health Assembly.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation deal — $500M from Washington, $37.5M co-financed by Maputo — funds coastal livelihoods, rural transport and agricultural reform.
Friedrich Merz, sworn in on 6 May 2025 at the head of a CDU/CSU-SPD coalition, faces a hardening political landscape one year on. The AfD has climbed from 20.8% at the election to nearly 28% in current polling.
Police operations in the Gare-Hollerich district intensified through January and February 2026, with 24 suspected dealers presented before an investigating judge and large-scale operations on 22 and 29 January.
Lawmakers reversed the president's January veto on 30 April, cutting prison time for those convicted in connection with the 2023 attack on Brasília's federal buildings — a major political win for the Bolsonarist right.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly pushed back on US charges against the governor of Sinaloa state and nine other officials, in the most pointed bilateral exchange of her term so far.
The two largest Luxembourg-headquartered retail banks reported full-year 2025 results in late April 2026 within a week of each other, both above expectations.
Severe wildfires in southern Georgia and Florida and persistent drought across 62% of the country pushed April 2026 burned-area numbers far above the long-run norm, with the Highway 82 and Pineland Road fires destroying dozens of homes.
On 30 April 2026, the Frieden government launched the FND, a five-year €150 million vehicle backing innovative defence and dual-use companies, jointly funded by FSIL, the State and SNCI.