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Up until recently, when I pictured a trip to the Maldives, I only imagined villas over turquoise blue waters and barefoot luxury on sandy shores. In October, I had the chance to see beyond the picture-postcard image with a visit to two island retreats on the Indian Ocean archipelago. My week-long stay began with a brief arrival to the bustling capital, Malé, before hopping in a speedboat to the first stop on my trip: OBLU Nature Helengeli by SENTIDO. On the compact island of Helengeli, I stayed in a lagoon villa complete with a private pool that spills onto the…
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Food takes a sizeable share of household budgets across Europe, but the cost of filling a shopping basket varies widely from country to country. In the EU, food and non-alcoholic beverages account for 13.6% of household spending, compared with 23.6% for housing and utility bills, according to Eurostat. Which countries are the most expensive for groceries, and what drives these differences? According to mid-2026 data from Numbeo, a crowdsourced cost-of-living database, the grocery index ranges from 57.2 in Moldova to 189.2 in Switzerland, with the EU average set at 100. This means groceries are 89.2% more expensive than the EU…
Mentions of the Gaza conflict in election campaigns have been largely limited to clashes over who was to blame for failing to prevent the Hamas attack on southern Israel, which killed more than 1,200 people.The Eisenkot-led Change bloc has focused on Netanyahu’s role in the lead-up to the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, pointing to the failures of his government and arguing he ignored warnings of a likely big Hamas attack. But the bloc has done little to flesh out its governing policy platform. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s campaign has sought to frame Eisenkot as an appeaser and puppet of Arab party leaders…
Ist Deutschland wirklich der kranke Mann Europas oder steht ein wirtschaftliches Comeback bevor? Nach einem milliardenschweren Investitionsgipfel „Invest in Germany“ mit Tech-Größen wie Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang zieht Martin Blessing, der persönliche Beauftragte des Bundeskanzlers für Investitionen, eine optimistische Bilanz. Es bleibt die entscheidende Frage, wie viel von den zugesagten Milliarden tatsächlich frisches Geld ist und ob die deutsche Bürokratie das Tempo der KI-Revolution überhaupt mitgehen kann. Als ehemaliger Vorstandsvorsitzender der Commerzbank weiß Blessing, wie man durch existenzielle Krisen navigiert. Auf einem Spaziergang mit Gordon Repinski durch das herbstliche Berlin erklärt der Ex-Banker, warum das deutsche Rentensystem dringend eine Kapitaldeckung nach…
A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has struck China’s Tibet region, killing at least 16 people, injuring 54 and collapsing hundreds of homes in and around the northern city of Nagqu, official media reported. The quake hit at 10:33 p.m. local time on Thursday, with its epicentre 191 kilometres east-northeast of Nagqu in a sparsely populated, high-altitude area of northern Tibet, according to the US Geological Survey. It was the most powerful earthquake to strike the region in five years, China’s state broadcaster CCTV said. At least 339 homes and 20 livestock sheds collapsed, according to the Nagqu media office. Chinese…
After the leak— which meant information about the bugs was in the open before the fix was ready — confusion quickly ensued, with government bodies and private companies choosing to temporarily shut down their websites rather than risk potentially damaging breaches to their data and the sites themselves. Early Thursday, Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, an internet services company that is widely used by websites to block cyberattacks, giving it a high level of visibility over what hackers are doing, said in a post on X that it had seen “millions” of attempts to exploit the flaw. Cloudflare saw…
With only around 1,300 residents, the Japanese village of Nanmoku is struggling with an ageing population and shortages of workers in schools, public transport and care facilities. Local officials hope a new partnership with Belén, a district in Peru’s Amazon region, will encourage young Peruvians to move to Japan and help sustain the community. Two Peruvian students have visited the village and expressed interest in settling there, while officials say the initiative could benefit both communities. However, how potential newcomers would obtain residency in Japan remains unclear. Watch the video to find out more.
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MPs pushed and shoved one another, tore microphones from desks and threw objects across the chamber. Opposition members blocked the podium and banged on desks in an attempt to disrupt proceedings, while other lawmakers continued voting on legislation by raising their cards. Footage showed overturned chairs and repeated confrontations between rival politicians as tensions escalated inside the assembly. The clashes unfolded against the backdrop of student demonstrations that have gripped the Albanian capital for ten consecutive days. Opposition lawmakers held up photographs of students reportedly injured by police during earlier protests, expressing solidarity with the demonstrators. Outside parliament, crowds of…