Embassies Under Threat, North Sea Gas Returns, and Culture Wars in Venice

Russia warns foreign diplomats to evacuate Kyiv ahead of Victory Day, while launching over 100 drones and missiles during Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire — with the British embassy among those directly threatened. Norway reopens North Sea gasfields closed for nearly three decades as Middle East conflict drives energy prices higher, a decision that matters enormously for British households given Norway is the UK's single largest gas supplier. The Venice Biennale becomes a flashpoint after Russia's pavilion reopens and Pussy Riot storms in. And Washington brands Europe a terrorism 'incubator' in a new counter-terrorism strategy that implicates Britain's own intelligence-sharing arrangements.