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Brent crude topped $100 a barrel on Wednesday and held firm on Thursday morning after renewed attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. It has held above $70 since mid-February, almost seven months, and is up 65.7% since the end of 2025, when it closed the year at $60.85. But this is no longer simply an energy market story. More expensive crude raises the cost of diesel, petrol and jet fuel. Those increases then spread through transport networks, supply chains and eventually consumer prices. For Europe, the timing could hardly be worse. Eurozone inflation was already 3.3% in August,…

The company’s new CEO, John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on 1 September, introduced Apple’s latest products at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters. After cycling through other updates to the iPhone, the Apple Watch and AirPods, Ternus told the audience inside the Steve Jobs Theater that “actually there is one more thing,” in a nod to the trademark phrase from Jobs that the company’s legendary late founder himself borrowed from the 1970s detective show “Columbo.” The foldable phone has the “largest display ever on an iPhone, yet fits into your pocket,” Ternus said. The phone opens to a…

The U.S. is on a public campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Now, it wants help from its NATO allies.  During a closed-door meeting back in July, U.S. envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker asked allied countries for help in disassembling the international court that addresses genocide and crimes against humanity.  On the show, Sarah Wheaton and Kathryn Carlson discuss the European reaction and the motivations behind this American push. Next, Europe’s housing crisis is deepening. Sarah Wheaton spoke with the Commissioner tasked with tackling the problem, Dan Jørgensen. And criminal gangs in Europe are using AI to figure out where they can…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 6:00 GMT+2 August was the hottest month on record, tied with July 2023, according to data published on Thursday by the European climate observatory Copernicus. Last month, the global average air temperature reached 16.96°C, which is 1.65°C higher than the pre-industrial reference period of 1850–1900. August was the first month since November 2025 to exceed 1.5°C, the limit set by the Paris Agreement on climate change. The extra-polar oceans also broke a record for their average temperature last month, due to global warming, Copernicus points out. The average temperature reached 21.07°C, the highest ever recorded for…

Roter Teppich für Scheich Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Hinter den Kulissen des Staatsbesuchs aus den Emiraten tobt ein harter Wirtschaftskrimi. Hans von der Burchard zeigt auf, warum mögliche Emirates-Direktflüge die Lufthansa alarmieren und sogar ein Gerangel der Bundesländer entfachen. Währenddessen wächst der parteiinterne Druck auf Friedrich Merz. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, warum dem Kanzlerkandidaten ausgerechnet im einflussreichen Parlamentskreis Mittelstand eisiger Wind entgegenweht und wie die Gerüchte um einen Kanzlertausch um Hendrik Wüst und Markus Söder einfach nicht verschwinden wollen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview fordert Henriette Held von der Grünen Jugend einen radikalen Kurswechsel ihrer Partei. Die Co-Vorsitzende warnt die Parteispitze um Franziska…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 12:33 GMT+2 Finland completed a 200-kilometre security fence along its border with Russia, strengthening NATO’s longest frontier with a country’s accused of intensified hybrid attacks on Europe. The project was launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine transformed Finland’s security environment and prompted the country to abandon decades of military non-alignment and join NATO in April 2023. Later that year, more than 1,300 migrants without visas arrived at Finland’s eastern border. Helsinki accused Moscow of “hybrid warfare” by orchestrating the movement of third-country nationals towards the frontier, a charge the Kremlin denied. Finland shut its land…

In 2024, the war in Gaza was a major issue that pushed voters away from Labour. Burnham has said that the party’s position under Starmer was wrong, and is taking a stronger stance against the Israeli government. Restrictions on buying goods made in Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were announced Tuesday. The battle lines  The by-election might become a battle of competing national visions. Green supporters argue that Burnham will be prime minister regardless of the outcome, and that having Polanski as an MP will add to pressure on the government in parliament from the left. Meanwhile, Labour…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 12:48 GMT+2 The European Union’s General Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the previous Hungarian government that sought to block billions of euros in aid to Ukraine funded by frozen Russian assets. Hungary, under the previous government of Viktor Orbán, turned to the European Court of Justice last year to annul a Council decision channelling interest payments from frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine via the European Peace Facility (EPF), the EU’s principal military aid instrument. The Orbán government argued that the EPF had breached EU law by disregarding its veto on the grounds…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:01 GMT+2•Updated 16:04 The Hungarian government has formally notified the European Commission of the reforms it has passed to address the EU’s rule of law concerns, in a move that could unlock €4.2 billion in cohesion funding and restore access to EU programmes. “The European Commission has received Hungary’s written notification under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. The notification sets out measures to remedy the situation that led to the adoption of protective measures,” the European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Piotr Serafin, wrote on X on Wednesday. The notification follows an agreement…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A rescue operation is underway after a passenger train collided with a truck at a level crossing and derailed in Sokolniki Suche, near Warsaw, in Poland. There were 120 passengers on board the train. Twenty people were injured, four of them seriously. Karolina Jaworska, a press officer for the Warsaw State Fire Service, told Euronews that one person had died. “We know of four people who were seriously injured, one of whom has died. The injured include the train driver, the truck driver and two passengers,” she told Euronews, adding that the person who…