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A 94-year-old woman in Florence faces losing the home she has lived in for more than 60 years after her landlord said her rent would rise from €450 to €1,200 a month. Franca’s contract expires in February, and her family says she will not be able to afford to renew it on the new terms. Her case closely echoes that of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, the 87-year-old who became a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain after a steep rent rise led to her eviction in Madrid. She died in hospital a few days later.…
Hundreds gathered outside the Education Ministry to demand better university conditions, increased financial support and improved job prospects. The protests escalated as demonstrators threw stones, smashed shop windows and damaged businesses, while police responded with tear gas and water cannon. According to a police update on Wednesday, 16 people were arrested and 49 others faced criminal proceedings. Six police officers and at least one journalist were injured. The student-led demonstrations have joined a wider anti-government movement known as the Flamingo Revolution, which is demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation over allegations of corruption. Protesters also oppose a luxury coastal development…
Florian Sengstschmid first set foot in Baku in 2001. After a career working in destinations around the world, the Austrian-born CEO of the Azerbaijan Tourism Board might be hard to surprise. Yet he says the country still has surprises in store. A crossroads with European roots Sengstschmid believes the South Caucasus is underrated. Its countries are often lumped together under a post-Soviet label, he says, without their individual histories and cultures being fully understood. Azerbaijan sits where Europe meets Asia, and he points to a European thread that few visitors expect. Bridges built by the Siemens brothers can still be…
The front-runner in France’s presidential reiterated her campaign promise to pare back payments to the EU by billions of euros ahead of a critical summit on Thursday. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
Spiralling energy prices, the EU’s long-term budget and support for Ukraine in the wake of Donald Trump’s latest overture to Vladimir Putin will dominate the conversation as the leaders gather for a two-day summit in Brussels. Enlargement, hybrid warfare, economic stagnation, rising borrowing costs, trade imbalances and irregular migration will also feature in the talks. The meeting will start early on Thursday with a hotly anticipated discussion on energy prices, which hostilities in the Middle East have sent skyrocketing. Oil remains above $100 per barrel despite a coordinated G7 release, while gas trades at its highest level since winter 2022,…
The demonstration took place outside the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court as the trial opened under tight security. Protesters held signs declaring “Russia is a Terrorist” and challenged the decision to bring war crimes charges. One placard drew a distinction between damaging a gas pipeline and bombing buildings or killing civilians. Ivan Kuritsyn, from Citizens’ Initiative Vilni De Ua, a non-profit organisation set up by Ukrainians displaced by the war, said the demonstrators had come to show their solidarity with Serhii Kuznietsov. The 50-year-old defendant, identified by German prosecutors as Serhii K., is accused of helping organise the operation that damaged…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 17:51 GMT+2•Updated 18:30 Sometimes a dark discolouration in the soil is enough to open a window onto a long-forgotten world. In the Lower Bavarian village of Großköllnbach (Dingolfing-Landau district) just such a clue led to a discovery that is posing new questions for archaeologists: in a pit they uncovered the remains of a person who lived around 7,000 years ago. But it is not just the great age of the find that makes it remarkable. Above all, it is the unusual position of the skeleton: unlike the burials that were customary at the time, the body…
“Since last night, all Starlink and Starshield terminals used by our forces have been subject to a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour,” the officer said. POLITICO talked to three frontline soldiers, who all spoke on condition of being granted anonymity, as well as a Ukrainian defense ministry spokesperson and the EU’s top defense official. The reported restrictions have revived a question Ukrainian commanders have worried about for years: how much of the country’s battlefield communications can rely on a service controlled by a U.S. company. Ukrainian soldiers say the restrictions have halted some medium-range drone strikes over Ukraine,…
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares tells Euronews the upcoming election on November 29 pits a ‘progressive majority’ against rightwing forces that want to remove fundamental rights. Albares sees elements of foreign interference, saying “they want to divide and weaken Europeans”. He also discusses Madrid’s position ahead of an EU leaders summit on Thursday, advocating to use the Russian frozen assets to finance Ukraine after Brussels shelved the idea in 2025. He spoke on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum.
At least one person was killed and more than 20 others injured in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight into Wednesday. A large fire broke out in a residential building after it had come under Russian shelling. The strikes targeted a key power plant in the city, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy noted that the Darnytska CHP-4 plant, which supplies the capital with heating and electricity, was targeted by a ballistic missile. The attack comes just days after US President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, halting attacks on energy targets. Since…