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The billionaire Mikhail Fridman and Russia’s former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Petr Aven are listed as shareholders of a banking and financial services holding firm which Geoffrey Cox declared he provided legal services to in the U.K. parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests.   Apr 30 4 mins read

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stunned the Armenian society inside and outside the country with a passionate statement over the weekend, declaring that Karabakh was not Armenian and that Armenia’s “Karabakh movement was a fatal mistake for us.” In an electrifying video widely circulated by the Armenian media on Sunday, Pashinyan is seen confronting accusations that Armenia “lost” Karabakh by asking repeatedly, “How was that land ours? How was it ours? Please explain how it was ours?” Countering decades of prior Armenian national narrative regarding Karabakh, the Armenian prime minister said, “I don’t want to speak behind dead people’s backs,…

Published on 11/05/2026 – 18:30 GMT+2 Over the past three decades the making of the Palme D’or has been in the hands of the Chopard family at its Swiss headquarters on the edge of Geneva. Every year, the iconic awards are carefully created for the Cannes Film Festival using the same traditional techniques and delicate methods. Caroline Scheufele, Chopard’s co-president and artistic director, personally oversees the production from conception to creation and her role in the process came about by chance. “Actually, we opened up a boutique in front of the Palais, so in my thoughts – I have always…

BRUXELLES — OpenAI, l’entreprise derrière ChatGPT, est en pourparlers avec la Commission européenne pour lui permettre d’accéder à son modèle le plus avancé sur le plan cyber. Celui-ci est capable d’identifier des failles logicielles. Cette initiative inattendue est une aubaine pour l’Union européenne, qui peine depuis des semaines à cerner les risques liés à la cybersécurité posés par les nouveaux modèles d’IA. Mais c’est aussi un revers pour Anthropic, concurrent d’OpenAI, qui n’a pas encore autorisé l’UE à accéder à son modèle Mythos, spécialisé dans la cybersécurité. Le responsable de cette initiative chez OpenAI, l’ancien ministre britannique des Finances George…

She underlined that the decision not to participate or broadcast Eurovision is “not any message against Jewish people,” but a “message against [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s state, and the politics of what Netanyahu is doing.” Five countries chose not to participate in this year’s Eurovision contest if Israel competed, saying their decision is based on Israel’s war in Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis it triggered. Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people in Israel, a large majority of whom were civilians, and taking 251 hostages. The attack prompted a major Israeli…

Around five tractors gathered outside the TotalEnergies refinery in Feyzin early on Monday morning as part of a demonstration organised by the agricultural union Coordination Rurale. Video from the scene showed tractors unloading piles of waste near the refinery entrance while riot police monitored the protest. Tanker trucks were still able to enter and leave the site. The protesters say higher diesel prices, rising fertiliser costs and falling cereal prices are putting severe pressure. French farmers have staged repeated demonstrations in recent years over production costs, environmental regulations and competition from imports, arguing that many farms are struggling to remain…

From the moment I arrived, EMIN was warm and welcoming — the kind of host who makes you feel instantly at ease, as though you’re not meeting for the first time but catching up with an old friend. The setting itself was relaxed, overlooking the Caspian, but it was his openness that immediately set the tone. As we sat next to his piano, we talked about his new album, Maybe Tomorrow, a collection of songs produced by the legendary David Foster. But as the conversation unfolded, it quickly became clear that this album is more than a studio project for…

“It gives me a little bit of a breather, take stock and this way you’re formally asking somebody that they think there should be a change, so it’s a step before that. For new MPs, for example, it’s far less threatening to say you want that,” West said.  West’s decision means the immediate threat to Starmer has receded — but his position in No. 10 Downing Street remains in peril. Her U-turn gives potential leadership challenger Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who does not currently have a seat in Westminster, time to return to parliament as an MP. Angela Rayner,…

Published on 11/05/2026 – 11:49 GMT+2 Around 50 farmers mobilised in the Lyon region on Monday morning following a call by the Coordination Rurale union to protest soaring fuel costs linked to the crisis in the Middle East. After staging a roadblock with around 20 tractors near a loading point at the TotalEnergies refinery in Feyzin, demonstrators headed along the A7 motorway towards the Rhône prefecture under police escort. By around 10 a.m., the convoy had reached La Mulatière and was moving towards Lyon’s Confluence district, where significant traffic disruptions were reported. The protest went ahead despite a prefectural order…

At least 880 civilians were killed in drone strikes in Sudan between January and April this year, the UN said on Monday, warning such strikes were pushing the conflict towards a “new, even deadlier phase,” more than three years into the war. The drone strikes carried out by both Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group, which have been at war since April 2023, have intensified across the country in recent months. According to the United Nations rights office, its Sudan team had determined that “drone strikes accounted for at least 880 civilian deaths – more than 80…