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French authorities arrested a 14-year-old on Monday after a middle school headmaster and teacher were shot with a hunting rifle, police and prosecutors said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A third person was grazed in the shooting in the southern town of Aubagne near Marseille and the lives of the principal and teacher…
Published on 12/10/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2 US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker told European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius that Washington remains committed to Europe’s defence, amid an ongoing US military review withdrawing thousands of troops and key strategic assets from the continent. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We still love you,” Whitaker…
Published on 12/10/2026 – 10:13 GMT+2 A US federal judge has ordered Donald Trump’s administration to stop running taxpayer-funded television adverts promoting the president, weeks before November’s midterm elections. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT US District Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday barring the administration from making or airing…
First proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this September, the European Security Council is supposed to bring EU leaders and key allies together, including the UK, Norway, Ukraine and Canada. The goal is to coordinate faster on security threats that affect the continent. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Europe is…
US President Donald Trump caused confusion on Sunday by announcing an “energy ceasefire” between Ukraine and Russia, drawing astonishment in Kyiv, silence from Moscow and support from Ukraine’s Western allies. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT However, the ceasefire looked unreliable, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck multiple Ukrainian power plants on…
Published on 11/10/2026 – 12:18 GMT+2 Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s ANO movement faced a stiff test in first-round voting for the Senate this weekend. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Czechs had headed to the polls on Friday and Saturday to elect local representatives as well as a third of the Senate’s members…
Protests by secondary-school pupils, a fuel crisis and a budget debate getting off to a bad start in the National Assembly, where there is no majority, the government is facing a string of difficulties that are being reflected in opinion polls. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Seven months before the end of his…
Published on 11/10/2026 – 16:19 GMT+2 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday his country could hold elections if Russia agreed to a 60-day total ceasefire, pushing back against US counterpart Donald Trump’s call for Ukraine to pick a new leader. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “First of all, with all respect to President…
By Franziska Müller Published on 11/10/2026 – 16:23 GMT+2•Updated 18:18 Around 2,000 cubic metres of rock broke away from the Hochvogel mountain in the Allgäu Alps in June. Now researchers are warning that another major collapse could be imminent, potentially sending up to 400,000 cubic metres crashing down the mountainside. ADVERTISEMENT…
Published on 11/10/2026 – 18:05 GMT+2 The eviction operations carried out by the state security forces began shortly after 8:00 am on the Guano beach in Ceuta, where around 400 migrants were still present following the wave of illegal immigration from Morocco that brought more than 70,000 people at the…
