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The U.K. prime minister — and former Greater Manchester mayor — praises the under-fire Premier League club’s Emirati ownership as “huge partner” in building up the city. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
Published on 01/10/2026 – 11:40 GMT+2 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is calling on the European Commission to “take action” in giving national governments more fiscal room to shield households and businesses from a renewed energy-price shock, according to a letter seen by Euronews. “We need more breathing room to protect our citizens and businesses (…) We must find the additional necessary flexibility within the Economic Governance Framework to allow Member States to take additional support measures (…) while safeguarding fiscal sustainability,” reads the letter dated 30 September. Addressing Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis,…
Scientists monitoring the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland are measuring rapid ice loss after a summer of high temperatures. They track meltwater, use dye to follow its flow and measure how much the surface has dropped. Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their remaining ice volume in 2026, the second-largest annual decline on record. Persistent summer heat waves and a dry winter with little snowfall left the ice with less protection and caused melting to start earlier. Some glaciers have lost between 2.5 and 4 metres in thickness this year, with losses of up to 10 metres recorded on some glacier tongues.
Published on 01/10/2026 – 10:57 GMT+2•Updated 11:43 Oil prices slipped in Asian trading on Thursday but bounced back in the European morning as investors weighed a recovery in Gulf crude shipments against the lack of a deal to end the war with Iran. At the time of writing, Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 2.6% at just above $100 a barrel, while the US benchmark West Texas Intermediate was also up 2.6% at roughly $92.80. Crude exports from the Gulf have climbed back close to pre-war levels, while Saudi Arabia has partly restored its East-West pipeline, which bypasses the…
Unmanned systems are both a growing threat and an increasingly vital part of the defence arsenal. That theme ran through the Tallinn Defence EXPO, where more than 100 companies showed their latest products. The stakes are high for Estonia, which borders Russia. According to an industry briefing, its defence spending rose from 1.9% of GDP in 2013 to an average of 5.4% through 2029. The EXPO was one of six events in Estonian Defence Week, held in Tallinn over five days in late September. The week drew around 4,500 visitors from 56 countries and featured 133 speakers across 68 sessions,…
Trump said he was optimistic about prices coming down as petroleum flows through the Strait of Hormuz have increased in recent days, but he declined to rule out restricting diesel shipments. “It’s something that we think about and we talk about every day,” he said. “But it just seems that it would have a negative impact on gasoline, so that would go up a little bit, and diesel would come down a little bit.” Wright, who has staunchly opposed a ban and was with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said the administration would soon announce measures aimed at…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 10:58 GMT+2 Israel had warned Britain that Iran was planning an attack on an airbase, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as he denounced the UK government for still pressuring his administration over treatment of the Palestinians. Speaking to Fox News late on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel tipped off Britain about a plot shortly before Burnham’s government announced sanctions on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on 8 September. “You want to hear how absurd things are there and how far the anti-Israel propaganda has gone?” Netanyahu told the US network’s conservative host Sean…
By Knarik Papoyan & Euronews Russian Published on 01/10/2026 – 10:16 GMT+2 Russia’s Supreme Court is preparing legislation that would allow presiding judges to enter the deliberation room while a jury discusses its verdict and would reduce jury panels from six or eight members to four — changes that could greatly consolidate decision-making power in the hands of state-appointed officials. Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court Nikolai Timoshin and Supreme Court judge Sergei Zelenin have outlined the main provisions of the planned reform, although the draft law has not yet been published. Under the proposals, the presiding judge would not be permitted to…
By Roselyne Min with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 10:07 GMT+2•Updated 10:10 A pickle-flavoured lemon tart might seem an unlikely dessert, but Japanese convenience store chains are betting that artificial intelligence (AI) can help them find combinations customers never knew they wanted. Popular convenience store chains FamilyMart and Lawson are using the technology to develop new food products, looking for ideas that go beyond familiar flavours. The experiments come amid wider concerns about AI replacing workers and increasingly powerful systems slipping beyond human control. Here, the technology’s role is more modest — suggesting what might go into your next snack. AI supplied the…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 8:47 GMT+2 Most artists have avoided performing in Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. But Kanye ‘Ye’ West would never stoop to putting himself in that category. The controversial American rapper, who has been barred from several European countries, was due to perform in St Petersburg on 10 and 11 October, thereby becoming the biggest western act to play in the country since 2022. Following earlier reports that St Petersburg’s Gazprom Arena said it would not host the rapper, as no rental agreement has been signed, Ye’s two dates have now officially been…