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The European Parliament has figured out how to pass controversial legislation … just bypass the full vote of all 720 MEPs. Today on the show, Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart discuss how cross-party leaders are worried that the plenary’s shifting alliances — particularly with the rise of the far right — could blow up legislation that expert lawmakers have already negotiated at the committee stage. The bypass method could come in handy for the EU’s next long-term budget. Next, NATO allies are considering the biggest overhaul of their military planning in at least two decades — by prioritizing Russia and…

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Published on 11 November 2026 – 6:25 GMT+1•Updated 6:29 The stock market debut will be the first by one of the leading AI model developers and is being seen as a gauge of how long the AI spending boom lifting the US economy can last. The maker of the Claude AI models said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it aims to sell 825 million shares at between $70 and $78 each. The shares will trade under the ticker “ANT.” Seven tech companies including Google, Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft have also agreed to buy $26…

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Published on 11 November 2026 – 5:29 GMT+1 US Democrats suffered a blow on Tuesday as Republicans in the US House of Representatives blocked Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment over the war waged on Iran. The House failed to secure the votes needed to send the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, with a vote of 211 to 204, handing President Donald Trump a victory just days after his party’s disastrous midterm election defeat. Democrats and some Republicans had been hoping to hold a vote on Wednesday, which would have seen Hegseth face formal charges. The resolution was formally proposed…

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The same shadow cabinet minister cited earlier argued that a lot of Reform’s support is “transactional” and that many voters on the right will “support any party to defeat the left.” “We do think we’ve got a big opportunity now to build on that. If we can convince people we are the party that can defeat Labour a lot of people will come over to support us,” they added. At Tory high command, they reckon Badenoch’s relative personal popularity is finally starting to rub off on the rest of the party. “It was only a matter of time before the…

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The tepid endorsement comes as presidents and prime ministers fly into Antalya for the conference’s leaders’ summit on Wednesday and Thursday.  In the corridors, and occasionally in press conference rooms, negotiators voiced concerns about the pledge’s alignment with emissions-slashing efforts, the financial aid needed to implement the goal, and whether a brand-new target is necessary at all. “On the electrification issue, the target is clear, but how can we move together?” asked Adão Soares Barbosa, climate envoy of Timor-Leste and chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group in a press conference on Tuesday.  “The LDCs are categorized as [having]…

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Published on 10 November 2026 – 6:28 GMT+1•Updated 11:57 Days after US President Donald Trump’s party suffered a drastic midterm defeat, a Republican lawmaker has made a move to impeach US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran, triggering a vote in the House of Representatives as early as this week. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has submitted on Monday eight articles of impeachment accusing Hegseth of abusing his powers and illegally waging war on Iran. He also cited the school attack launched in the early days of the war that began in late February, in which a US…

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Published on 10 November 2026 – 11:37 GMT+1 Donnie Dunagan, who provided the voice of young Bambi in the 1942 Disney classic before embarking in a career in the military, has died aged 92 of lung cancer. “We were proud to represent a Marine, beloved by fans around the world for his roles in ‘Bambi’ and ‘Son of Frankenstein,’” his agents Kris Jones and Nery Lemus of CelebWorx told Variety. “While he asked us (in his words) ‘not to be sad due to the great life I lived,’ it would be amiss not to share the impact that Donnie had…

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Rutte told Dutch TV last week that Southern European countries like Spain and Portugal see Russian aggression as remote. “Sometimes I tell our allies in Spain or Portugal, who say, ‘It’s far away, and what happens in Russia mainly affects Poland'” that “Russia’s latest missiles take 5 minutes longer to reach Lisbon than Warsaw,” he said. NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said: “It is clear that all Allies agree that Russia is a threat … and while all governments understand the threat, the Secretary General often highlights for public audiences who may not be as engaged on security issues how very…

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