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One of the guests of honour this year at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival is none other than Todd Haynes, one of the most important and singular voices in contemporary American cinema. The celebrated director and screenwriter of Far From Heaven, I’m Not There, Carol, and May December is known for his pioneering work associated with the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 90s. He then gained acclaim for his films exploring the emotional repercussions of social repression and the unspoken desires revealed by marginalized experiences. He attends the Lumière Film Festival to present the restored versions of his directorial…
Trump’s recent demand that Zelenskyy “better damn well stop” Ukraine’s refinery attacks, and his call for Ukraine to install a new leader, amount to a recognition that Kyiv does indeed have significant leverage in the fight. Kyiv’s refinery campaign is helping create a growing fuel shortage across Russia and is also harming the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war. But European leaders fear that Trump’s desperation to lower fuel prices ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections by pressuring Kyiv to stop its attacks could weaken Ukraine’s hand without persuading Russia to end the war. Sybiha’s comments drew loud applause…
The EU Council has agreed to open two additional accession clusters with Ukraine after Hungary lifted its veto, bringing the total number of opened clusters to four out of six. The decision follows an agreement on the rights of Hungary’s ethnic minority in Ukraine, a long-standing demand from Budapest. The breakthrough, alongside the opening of two additional accession clusters, could pave the way for a first bilateral meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar in Brussels this week, potentially marking a turning point in relations between the two neighbouring countries. Hungarian and Ukrainian diplomats are…
Published on 13/10/2026 – 19:26 GMT+2 Cristiano Ronaldo waved a scarf bearing the Saudi flag after Al-Nassr’s Asian Champions League victory on Monday, following a missile alert that delayed kick-off by an hour in Riyadh. Al-Nassr beat Uzbekistan’s Neftchi Fergana 3-1 in the AFC Champions League Elite at Al-Awwal Park. Ronaldo draped the scarf around his shoulders as he joined his teammates to applaud supporters. Before the game, he had also kissed the Saudi national emblem on his shirt. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence issued its warning about 15 minutes before the scheduled start. Players waited in dressing rooms while spectators…
Portugal is often considered one of the most welcoming and hospitable countries in the world, with international studies and surveys repeatedly placing the Portuguese people at the top of tourists’ favourites. It is therefore no surprise that Porto has been awarded the title of “Europe’s friendliest city”. The distinction comes from readers of Condé Nast Traveller in the Readers’ Choice Awards 2026 (source in Portuguese), which also place the city of Lisbon in second position in this category. The vote aims to identify cities where “hospitality is at its warmest” and “you find locals eager to help, whether you’re trying…
Danny Boyle has criticised the erosion of truth in today’s media landscape, drawing a connection between the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire and the attention economy that dominates modern media. Speaking at the London Film Festival premiere of Ink on Monday, the director described the film as a story about the early development of a media culture in which attention and commercial success came at a cost. The film follows the rise of British tabloid The Sun and a pivotal year in which the newspaper overtook its rival, the Daily Mirror. Guy Pearce, who plays Murdoch, described him as…
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Published on 13/10/2026 – 16:16 GMT+2 The director general of Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence service warned on Tuesday that Russia remained “aggressor number one” amid increasing threats from foreign states. Delivering an annual speech from Thames House in London, Ken McCallum told attendees that MI5 was currently “devoting more resources to countering state threats than during the Cold War.” “The Russian military and intelligence services are once again escalating their attempts at hybrid warfare, being careful to stay below the NATO Article 5 threshold, which would be foolish for them to cross,” he added. A number of states have accused…
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said on Tuesday that his country “will emerge from this crisis more resilient and better equipped to adapt to global changes,” outlining the country’s national strategies which now also focus on diversifying the economy towards the “non-hydrocarbon sectors,” in addition to the traditional model of liquefied natural gas global supply which Qatar wants to increase. In a speech to the nation at the opening of the Shura Council’s annual session in Doha, Sheikh Tamim made it clear that “Qatar was attacked on its territory by Iran, in a blatant violation of its…
National telecoms authorities, EU policymakers and Barcelona-based satellite company Sateliot met at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how radio frequencies and fresh money will decide who controls the communications Europe relies on from orbit, with the bloc’s current seven-year space budget expiring in 2027. Euronews was at the event, organised by Sateliot, whose spacecraft act as mobile phone masts in space, connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as sensors and trackers where ground networks don’t reach. The EU’s €14.8 billion space programme for 2021-2027, which funds Galileo, the bloc’s satellite navigation system, and Copernicus, its…