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The new deal keeping the government afloat expires in six months, and parties will need to renegotiate the pact with no agreement yet on what comes next. During this period, the Social Democrats will try to pass an investment-focused 2027 budget by the end of November, steering Bucharest away from austerity, party leader Sorin Grindeanu told POLITICO Playbook Capitals in an interview. “Romania needs an economic recovery plan, not austerity,” he said. “Our priorities are protecting purchasing power and supporting business, restarting public investment, and improving essential public services.” Grindeanu added that he aims to revise the 2026 budget by the end of October…
King Charles III has welcomed Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tarik to Windsor, marking the start of a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom. The King was joined by Queen Camilla, Prince William and Princess Catherine to greet the Sultan on Tuesday, 20 October. Following the welcome, King Charles and Sultan Haitham climbed aboard a horse-drawn carriage for the procession to Windsor Castle, where a ceremonial welcome took place within the castle grounds. The visit brings the Omani leader to the UK for three days of state engagements.
U.S. early warning “always worked and then suddenly it malfunctioned. Nobody in Ukraine believes in this,” an official familiar with the matter told POLITICO on condition of anonymity. “Americans first said it happened because of weather conditions, then it was a software malfunction, then something else … They do not provide an official explanation.” However, Rubio said the U.S. was looking into why Ukraine had problems with information about Russian missiles on Oct. 13 and 18, saying, “perhaps it was an internal issue in terms of them being able to take the information that was being provided and systemize it…
Published on 20/10/2026 – 15:43 GMT+2 Australian model and swimwear designer Sahara Ray has died aged 34. Her family said in a statement to US celebrity news website TMZ that she died on Sunday night surrounded by family at the hospital. Her cause of death has not been made public. The daughter of Australian surfer Tony Ray, she founded the label Sahara Ray Swim in 2014 and was photographed on holiday with Justin Bieber in 2016. She gave birth to her daughter, Snow, in January this year.
Published on 20/10/2026 – 14:56 GMT+2 A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused serious failures to services on Tuesday, the US technology giant said, as several UK banks reported widespread disruptions. Google said in a service update that its Cloud services suffered an outage “due to a power event”, adding that a full recovery was expected at around 1300 GMT on Tuesday. Services for the digital bank Revolut, including withdrawals from ATMs, bank transfers and bank card top-ups, were disrupted, which a source close to the matter attributed to the Google Cloud failures. UK lenders…
LONDON — Kemi Badenoch warned Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday not to repeat the economic mistakes of her former boss Liz Truss in his first budget next Wednesday. The Tory leader said higher national debt, increased gilt yields and extra government spending are creating a gloomy economic picture — and demanded sharp spending cuts from the ruling Labour government next week. “The lessons of the mini-budget are: if you don’t balance your budget, if you give away £150 billion in subsidizing people’s energy bills, but you don’t cut spending, then the markets will react,” Badenoch said, citing former…
Alberta separatists have vowed to continue their push for independence after voters rejected a plan to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada. At a watch party in Edmonton on Monday, supporters gathered around televisions and checked their phones as the results came in. Despite the setback, many insisted the vote would not bring their movement to an end. “We’ve already won,” said separatist leader Jeffrey Rath, arguing that the campaign had built a major movement and dominated political debate in the province over the past year. Rath said the next step would be to gain control of Alberta’s United…
With the clocks set to go back this weekend, dark, miserable nights are drawing in for most of us. Our only hope for escape (aside from the seasonal depression-busting daylight lamps) is an actual escape for a spot of winter sun. Imagine you go all that way in search of Vitamin D and to swim in the sea only for it to rain the entire time. Heartbreaking. It would undoubtedly feel like a waste of money (why didn’t I just stay at home?) – but this new announcement from Airbnb could lessen the blow somewhat. The holiday home rental company…
“It’s indefensible that … Europe’s citizens are paying all these environmental taxes, while the Yanks, the Asians and the Chinese land and take off in Europe completely exempt from their fair share of environmental taxes.” He added that Ryanair would pay €1.5 billion in ETS compliance costs in 2026. He argued that the ETS should also cover long-haul services operated by European rivals such as Lufthansa and Air France-KLM. “And why not? Those are the most expensive flights in the world. They’re also the most profitable flights they have, because they’re exempt from Europe’s bullshit environmental taxation,” O’Leary said. The…
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