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On the screens at the Control Centre in Athens, the symbols representing aircraft form an ever denser network. At the height of the summer season, air traffic controllers are called on to manage thousands of flights in Greek skies that seem to be reaching the limits of their capacity. Olga Toki, vice-president of the Hellenic Air Traffic Controllers Association, paints a picture of intense strain: Traffic is so heavy, she says, that at certain times it is hard to find any additional space for new aircraft. The figures illustrate the scale of the burden. According to the Hellenic Civil Aviation…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2 French journalist, TV presenter, radio host and cultural titan Philippe Bouvard has died aged 96. Known as the creator of RTL’s daily comedy radio programme Les Grosses Têtes, which he hosted from 1977 to 2014, Bouvard was a great discoverer of comic talent and one of France’s foremost columnists. He hosted the television program Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard from 1982 to 1986 and helmed the radio programme Allô Bouvard from 2014 until his retirement in 2025 at age 95, after a career of more than 60 years in radio. Bouvard holds the world…
Investigators in Germany have found a third drone and what they suspect are explosives believed to be linked to an attempted attack on Leipzig/Halle airport earlier this month, public broadcasters NDR and WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily reported on Tuesday. The drone was discovered west of the airport on 14 August, 10 days after the initial attack attempt. Investigators reportedly also discovered around 50 grams of what they suspect is the military explosive hexogen, according to local media. Other leads took investigators to Kursdorf, north of the airport. There, officers found a device which may have been used to…
A tornado tore through Pomas in France’s Aude department, damaging homes and ripping roofs apart. Footage shows residents gathering around affected buildings, clearing roof tiles and covering exposed roofs with tarpaulins. Trees and vegetation were also uprooted, while emergency teams moved through the village. The tornado struck as much of south-western France was under an orange weather alert for severe thunderstorms. Authorities reported 31 people injured in Pomas, while storms caused power cuts and transport disruption in several areas. Emergency services were deployed to assess the damage and help residents secure their homes. Strong winds and heavy rain were reported…
Fundraising Big Tech cases “To bring a case against a Big Tech company, it just costs an awful lot of money,” said Gerard Rudden, an Irish lawyer who helped notorious privacy campaigner Max Schrems bring two landmark legal cases involving Facebook through the Irish courts. “They obviously have unlimited resources to put into litigation,” Rudden said of the tech firms. “It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of bodies and it costs a lot of money to do it. This has ramifications across Europe, because if funding was permitted, you could have a European-wide collective redress case against Meta, Google, Microsoft or whoever in Ireland. But at the moment it’s just impossible because it would cost too much.” The ban’s origin comes from Ireland having inherited two legal concepts from English…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 7:33 GMT+2 The Washington Post has been ordered to reinstate columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired over social media posts she wrote in the aftermath of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Kirk was shot dead in September on a Utah college campus, sparking a wave of grief among conservatives and threats of a clampdown on the “radical left” from President Donald Trump. Attiah wrote on social media afterward that she would not display sadness for Kirk’s killing and shared the activist’s past racist comments about Black women. She was later fired, with the Post accusing her…
Spain has a housing problem that has been getting worse for years and has already changed the way its young people think about their future. Buying a flat in Madrid, Barcelona or Málaga is, for most people under 40, a mission impossible. Renting on your own is no more viable: those who move out alone devote on average 98.7% of their salary to housing. The result is a generation that feels trapped: only 14.5% of young people aged 16 to 29 have managed to move out, and the average age for leaving the parental home has risen to 30, compared…
Nach der Sommerpause trifft sich die Bundesregierung zur ersten Klausur nach dem Kabinettsumbau im brandenburgischen Schloss Neuhardenberg. Der Kanzler fordert Disziplin, aber die Konflikte belasten die Koalition weiterhin merklich. Rasmus Buchsteiner liefert dazu die ersten Einschätzungen direkt aus Neuhardenberg. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview stellt sich der SPD-Fraktionschef Matthias Miersch den Fragen zum politischen Herbst. Er zeigt sich überzeugt, dass Friedrich Merz trotz aktuell schlechter Umfragen bis zum Ende der Amtszeit Kanzler bleibt. Außerdem ordnet er die Rentenpläne und die Umfragewerte der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt ein. Nachdem ein pauschales Social-Media-Verbot für Jugendliche in Frankreich gescheitert ist, sortiert Larissa Kögl von POLITICO PRO „Technologie…
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A question of sovereignty The key theme looming over the Icelandic referendum is sovereignty. But it’s an issue that cuts two ways, and polls suggest the referendum is on a knife-edge. A Gallup poll in mid-August gave the “Yes” camp a wafer-thin advantage, with 51.5 percent support. While “Yes” campaigners like Eggertsson stress the regional implications of threats to Greenland’s sovereignty, the “No” camp argues the EU could impinge on Icelandic sovereignty, particularly within the politically crucial spheres of fisheries and farming policy. Indeed, it was fisheries quotas that were key to scuppering Iceland’s previous bid to join the EU,…