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The European FCAS fighter jet project has failed. The German and French governments announced on Monday that the joint development of the aircraft is to be halted. The jet was to form the central pillar of the Future Combat Air System, a key project in European defence cooperation, however Airbus and Dassault, the two companies working on the project, were unable to agree on who should take the lead.

Rioting broke out in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, on Tuesday after a video of a knife attack which left a man seriously injured the day before was posted online. Hundreds of people staged anti-immigration protests and set fire to vehicles and buildings. According to the police, the suspected perpetrator is a 30-year-old man from Sudan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree giving an element of Ukraine's army the honorary title "Heroes of the UPA". However the nationalist Ukrainska Povstanska Armiia (UPA) or Ukrainian Insurgent Army is notorious in Poland for the mass murder of civilians during WW II. Polish President Karol Nawrocki and his predecessor Lech Wałęsa are now calling for Zelensky to be stripped of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest state honour, awarded in 2023. How deep is the rift?

Chinese President Xi Jinping has paid a two-day visit to North Korea. No matter how the international situation develops, China will remain committed to its traditional friendship with North Korea, Xi said during a meeting with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Commentators examine the complex web of ties between the two countries.

Two months after the Danish elections, a four-party centre-left coalition government has emerged which, however, still falls short of a parliamentary majority. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats will work together with the Socialist People's Party, the social-liberal Radikale Venstre, and the Moderates. Frederiksen is now set to begin her third term in office.