Cain Burdeau

Journalist at Freelance

EU Correspondent at Courthouse News Service

Freelance journalist, writer and EU correspondent for Courthouse News Service. Avid cyclist and trail runner.

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Diplomacy over Ukraine war enters crucial week

2 days ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

(CN) — Efforts to end the war in Ukraine through diplomacy are speeding up ahead of a proposed meeting in Istanbul on Thursday that could even see a dramatic encounter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump.
American cardinal becomes Pope Leo XIV

6 days ago | tucsonsentinel.com | Cain Burdeau

Courthouse News Service Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American from Chicago, became the new pope on Thursday. He chose his papal name to be Leo XIV. Prevost was an unexpected pick and he became the first pontiff from North America.
American cardinal becomes Pope Leo XIV

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

The Catholic Church has a new leader, American Cardinal Robert Prevost from Illinois. (CN) — Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American from Chicago, became the new pope on Thursday. He chose his papal name to be Leo XIV. Prevost was an unexpected pick and he became the first pontiff from North America. He succeeds Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American leader.
Cardinals gather in Sistine Chapel to pick Pope Francis successor

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

On the first day cardinals gathered to pick the next pontiff, all eyes are on a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel which will signal when church leaders find a successor to Pope Francis. (CN) — The doors of the Sistine Chapel closed to the outside world on Wednesday as 133 Roman Catholic Church cardinals began the secret process of electing a successor to Pope Francis.
Merz sworn in as Germany’s new chancellor

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

It took two votes in the Bundestag, but in the end — as expected — conservative Friedrich Merz was elected as Germany's chancellor. He takes over the helm at a very difficult moment for Germany and the European Union. (CN) — Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's center-right Christian Democrats, was sworn in as the new chancellor on Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new era in European politics.
Germany lists far-right AfD party as danger to democracy

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored historic gains in national elections, was classified as a threat to democracy on Friday by the country's domestic intelligence agency. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said it designated the party, best known by its German initials AfD, as a right-wing extremist group because of its anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Israel condemned at ICJ over Gaza, accused of drone attack on aid ship near Malta

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

(CN) — International condemnation of Israel mounted on Friday after a humanitarian vessel carrying aid and activists heading to the besieged Gaza Strip was attacked by drones and disabled off the coast of Malta. The attack on the Conscience, a vessel operated by pro-Palestinian activists and part of the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition, came on the same day that a week of hearings on Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip ended at the International Court of Justice.
US, Ukraine sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Ukraine’s fate

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

(CN) — The White House on Thursday hailed a minerals deal it signed with Kyiv as a “historic” step toward ending Russia's invasion and helping war-ravaged Ukraine rebuild. On Wednesday in Washington, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukraine's Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko signed an agreement to set up a joint economic fund focused on investing in the extraction of Ukrainian minerals, particularly rare earth elements needed for modern technology.
EU top court nixes unverified health claims by herbal supplement makers

2 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

(CN) — The European Union's top court Wednesday ordered herbal supplement makers to stop advertising health claims on their products that haven't been verified by EU regulators. The European Court of Justice's restrictions for herbal substances came in a case brought by a German watchdog group against Novel Nutriology, a Hamburg-based food supplement company.
EU high court throws out Malta’s ‘golden passports’ program

2 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Cain Burdeau

The European Court of Justice found it illegal for Malta to offer citizenship — and thus entry to the European Union — for a very high price. The island nation's cash-for-citizenship scheme has long been controversial. (CN) — Malta's scheme that allows wealthy individuals to buy citizenship, or so-called “golden passports,” is illegal and must end, the European Union's high court ruled Tuesday.