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Italian Carabinieri officers seized €3.2 million in banknotes during an operation against alleged members of a local crime organisation near Naples. Footage released by the force shows officers using hammers to break through a wall and uncover hundreds of bundles of cash hidden inside a residence in Caivano. Anti-mafia prosecutors ordered the arrest of 34 people over alleged drug trafficking, extortion, weapons offences and other crimes. The Carabinieri said the suspects were linked to an armed Camorra-type conspiracy led by the Angelino clan.
A performer in a giant gorilla costume joins students on the dancefloor at a university event in Lahore, Pakistan. The trend has spread from social media to weddings, parties and campus celebrations across the country. Shayen Zahoor, who runs a costume company, says the idea came from India and quickly gained attention after the team posted its first video online. Bookings followed within days. Event organiser Ismail Ali says the performance was chosen to lift the mood, while students describe the character’s arrival as a turning point in the party. The performer says some people are frightened, but others quickly…
Public information on how property ownership is distributed in Spain is still insufficient, at least when it comes to residential property in the hands of large landlords, meaning owners or companies with more than 10 homes or 1,500 m² of residential use. The data on the actual shares, held by the national cadastre, anonymise who owns them. In areas such as the rental market, which falls under the remit of Spain’s autonomous communities, this information can be obtained by filing transparency requests to analyse tenants’ deposit payments. This means many types of housing (owner-occupied homes, empty properties, tourist apartments and…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 18:00 GMT+2 The Norwegian government says it is aiming to have a plan in place to develop mining facilities at Europe’s largest known rare-earths deposit by the year 2028 at the latest. The Fen Complex, around 150 km southwest of Oslo, is estimated to contain 15.9 million tonnes of rare-earth oxides, including neodymium and praseodymium, which are used in powerful magnets for electric vehicles, renewable energy technology and defence equipment. Environmental concerns have long delayed the project. Surveys in the area identified 78 endangered animal and plant species, including rare beetles, trees, mosses and fungi. Rare…
Grynspan topped the latest informal Security Council poll, while Argentina’s Rafael Grossi, Senegal’s Macky Sall and Uganda’s Olara Otunnu are also in the field. All nine previous U.N. secretaries-general have been men. Ribera’s intervention echoes that of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who said on American comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast Wednesday that “after 80 years of this multilateral order, I think it’s important, it’s fair that we choose a woman, the first woman, leading the U.N. as secretary-general.” Sánchez also called himself a “feminist politician.” The race is unfolding as U.S. President Donald Trump pressures the U.N. to overhaul its…
Moroccans went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new parliament in an election shaped by mounting issues but also hopes for better opportunities generated by the country’s thriving economy. The next government will oversee preparations for the 2030 World Cup, which Morocco will co-host with Spain and Portugal, while facing pressure to address everyday worries about unemployment and low wages, as well as issues with housing, schools and hospitals. Voting centres across the North African kingdom are due to close at 7 pm local time (9 pm CEST), allowing nearly 16 million registered voters to cast ballots for…
As Europe looks for ways to retain tech talent and build global businesses, an Italian company has quietly grown into one of the continent’s biggest tech success stories. You may not know the company’s name, but you have likely used one of its products. Founded in Milan in 2013, Bending Spoons has acquired a string of familiar digital brands, including Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo and Eventbrite in recent years. Its annual revenue rose from $387 million (€338 mn) in 2023 to $1.31 billion (€1.14 bn) in 2025. In July, the company went public on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange. So how…
There’s not long now until the world’s longest flight between Sydney and London takes off with passengers for the first time in October next year. And now travellers have yet another ultra-long-haul route to look forward to, with Qantas confirming it is set to launch non-stop services between Sydney and New York in mid-2028. The Australian airline has said that the flights will cut more than three hours off the total travel time compared with one-stop services today. Tickets for the inaugural flight will go on sale from August 2027. Dubbed “Project Sunrise”, flights will be operated by specially configured…
When it is time to draw a card, Cristian M. Amores does not look at anything: he brings his iPhone up to an NFC tag stuck on the card sleeve and waits for VoiceOver to tell him what he has just drawn. He is blind and, since the end of 2020, has been adapting, card by card, the way he plays “Magic: The Gathering”, the collectible card game created by mathematician and PhD Richard Garfield in 1993. Amores shares the whole process under the name Magic Accesible on social network X, and his case is far from unique: from controllers…
Prêts, appels aux dons, levées de fonds : les équipes des candidats à la présidentielle s’activent pour trouver les moyens de financer leurs campagnes. Qui s’en sort bien ? Qui est à la peine ? Marine Le Pen peut-elle cette année décrocher un prêt auprès d’une banque française alors que l’initiative de Matignon pour offrir une garantie publique aux candidats est tombée à l’eau ? Anthony Lattier en discute Paul de Villepin et Jason Wiels, journalistes à POLITICO, auteurs de la newsletter Paris Influence. N’hésitez pas à vous abonner et à laisser vos commentaires.