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The Democrats scored a resounding victory in this week’s U.S. midterm elections. But will their triumph actually change anything for Europe? With the balance of power shifting in Congress, could the incoming lawmakers move the needle on issues Europe cares about, from tariffs to support for Ukraine? And what do MAGA’s bruising losses mean for Europe’s own nationalist and populist parties? Are they a warning for Europe’s far right? Or could the very issues that battered Republicans — affordability and the cost of living — end up propelling Europe’s far right into power? Joining host Sarah Wheaton to discuss this…
Flames and thick smoke rose from an Ozon warehouse in Adygeysk, southern Russia, on Wednesday November 4, in footage shared on social media. The e-commerce giant said one of its warehouses had come under a drone attack. The incident comes as Ukraine presses ahead with a campaign targeting logistics infrastructure across Russia. Other sites hit have included facilities belonging to Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online marketplace, and its main competitor Wildberries, the country’s largest online retailer. Kyiv has alleged that Wildberries supplied components to the Russian military.
Flames engulfed a huge red banner showing Donald Trump, JD Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu and Steve Witkoff in Tehran’s Enghelab Square on Wednesday, as crowds gathered to mark the anniversary of the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis. The four figures were pictured with torn clothes and apparent injuries. Demonstrators marched with portraits of Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba, while others displayed caricatures of Trump and Netanyahu, including one depicting the US president as a dog on a leash. At the former American embassy, crowds chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” and stamped on US and Israeli flags. The…
A sudden blank screen startled the almost three million customers of Ueno Bank in the early hours of Tuesday 3 November. At around 03:24, the app of the Paraguayan institution, a key player in the system that manages state funds worth millions and has grown at breakneck speed in its three years of existence, stopped displaying users’ accounts and showed a single message: “We cannot display the balance”. At the same time, the Central Bank of Paraguay issued a tough statement on its social networks: the institution was being taken over and its liquidation process was beginning. This “resolution procedure”…
Burnham’s decision to actively exclude Putin comes after U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a diplomatic row by inviting the Russian leader to America’s G20 summit in Miami this December. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband previously told POLITICO Britain will not ditch its ban on directly engaging with Russia, but that it was for the U.S. to make its own decisions. A photocall at the G20 foreign ministers meeting last week was canceled after politicians, including Miliband, refused to be pictured with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The U.K. has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters since Russia’s full-scale invasion of…
Israeli soldiers stood guard near olive groves in the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir on Thursday as Palestinian families gathered what they could during one of the few days they are permitted to harvest their crops. Footage showed troops firing tear gas near the olive pickers, with smoke drifting through the trees as a boy threw a canister aside. Home to around 3,000 people, the village lies north-east of Ramallah and has some 4,300 hectares of land, yet residents say they can access barely 100 hectares. Reaching their groves requires prior Israeli military approval, with access restricted to a…
Published on 5 November 2026 – 16:25 GMT+1•Updated 20:19 The European Union plans to launch an “AI literacy” certificate for schoolchildren in the hope of addressing the impact of fast-developing technology on education. “It will help young pupils understand how AI works, check what it tells them, spot manipulation, and know when to switch off,” said European Commission vice president Roxana Minzatu. Brussels said it would look to launch this new certificate for 15-year-old students for the next 2027-2028 school year. This project comes at a time when teachers and learners around the world are struggling with the impact of…
It also speaks directly to the permission bottleneck Ellermann-Kingombe describes. Because data stays under the control of the nation or system that owns it, access can be governed by policy at the source, with classification boundaries and national rules enforced where the data lives rather than negotiated away in a central repository. Rather than consolidating everything into a traditional data lake, a data mesh approach manages data where it originates and lives, without moving or duplicating it. A data mesh approach is sustainable because of its reliance on open standards. They enable defense organizations to connect systems that were never…
Speaking to Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American leaders, he appealed for transformers, power cables, generators and electronic equipment to restore infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks. Zelensky specifically identified Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia as potential suppliers of transformers, Chile for power cables and Spain for electrical equipment and generators. He stressed that Ukraine needed supplies compatible with its electricity grid and urged governments to establish direct contacts with manufacturers to accelerate deliveries. At the summit, Zelensky was seen speaking with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and attending talks alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Honduran President Nasry Asfura and other international…
Scène inédite à l’Assemblée mercredi soir : la première partie du budget de l’Etat a été rejetée à l’unanimité. Comment expliquer qu’aucun député n’ait approuvé le texte issu des débats. Pourquoi les députés du centre et de la droite sont agacés par Sébastien Lecornu ? Quels sont les scénarios qui se dessinent pour la suite de la discussion qui va se poursuivre au Sénat ?Anthony Lattier en discute avec Sarah Paillou, co-autrice de la newsletter gratuite Playbook Paris, et Jason Wiels, responsable de la newsletter Paris Influence de POLITICO.Des questions ? Des commentaires ? Ecrivez-nous sur Whatsapp au +32 494…