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Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado is back in her home country following a series of failed attempts to return and nearly a year in exile. Machado announced her return via a post on social media site X, in which she wrote “I am here. With you”. Machado had covertly left Venezuela in December 2025 to receive her Nobel Peace Prize. Just weeks later, US forces seized the country’s longtime leader Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face criminal charges. Machado has heaped praise on US President Donald Trump for launching the…
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Published on 25/10/2026 – 10:15 GMT+1•Updated 13:09 Audi is taking a major step into the United States: the premium carmaker from Ingolstadt plans to invest around four billion US dollars in its first own US car plant in the state of Georgia. The announcement was made on Saturday, 24 October 2026, at a campaign rally by US President Donald Trump in Perry, Georgia. Trump appeared alongside Döllner and stressed in his speech that his trade policy was prompting companies to move their production to the United States. The announcement is likely to play well in the battle for the midterm…
Published on 25/10/2026 – 12:21 GMT+1•Updated 12:32 All West Bank land crossings are set to be closed on Tuesday as Israel holds legislative elections, the Israeli military has said. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a “ban on the entry and exit of Palestinian workers to and from all of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, including industrial zones, as well as the closure of all land crossings throughout election day.” It added that from Sunday through Monday, Palestinian workers would also not be permitted to enter Judea, Samaria or the Jordan Valley to work, “with the…
Audi is taking a major step into the US: the premium manufacturer from Ingolstadt plans to invest around four billion US dollars in its first own US car plant in the state of Georgia. The announcement was made on Saturday, 24 October 2026, at a campaign rally held by US President Donald Trump in Perry, Georgia. Trump appeared alongside Döllner and stressed in his speech that his trade policy was persuading companies to shift production to the United States. The announcement is likely to go down well in the battle for the midterm elections on 3 November. Audi chief executive…
“But at the same time, it was a type of immigration that perhaps wasn’t as difficult [as now]. Revolving door migration where people would come and then go back is different. The balance of migration has changed, hasn’t it, since then? I think we’ve just got to have an honest discussion about those things.” Burnham said at the Labour Party Conference in September that he is weighing different options for a reset of relations with the 27-country bloc. He did not elaborate in his conference speech on the options he would present — but different figures within Labour have argued…
“Höcke’s statements alone, and the use of the term Volksgemeinschaft” — the Nazi-era concept of an ethnic national community — “are enough to land the AfD in that report,” she wrote, referring to the intelligence service’s annual assessment. “Some in our party seem in a hurry to drive the AfD, deliberately or not, into oblivion.” In May 2025, the agency classified the AfD as a “confirmed right-wing extremist organisation”, citing, among other things, an exclusionary concept of the German nation. The classification, which grants authorities broader surveillance powers, was provisionally suspended by a court in Cologne last February. ‘Wake up,…
Published on 25/10/2026 – 10:15 GMT+1•Updated 10:18 Audi is taking a major step into the American market: the premium manufacturer from Ingolstadt plans to invest around 4 billion US dollars in its first dedicated US car plant in the state of Georgia. The announcement was made on Saturday, 24 October 2026, at an election campaign rally by US President Donald Trump in Perry, Georgia. Trump appeared alongside Döllner and stressed in his speech that his trade policy was encouraging companies to move production to the United States. The timing of the announcement is likely to play well in the battle…
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Russia has been selling off gold throughout this year. September brought a further reduction in its reserves of the precious metal of around 6.2 tonnes, bringing the total reduction since January to about 62 tonnes. Only once in its modern history has Russia disposed of gold at a similarly rapid pace, when in 1998 it sold 118 tonnes from its reserves in just three months. Russia is offloading gold, China is buying According to Adam Stroniawski, managing director of Polish precious metals dealer Mennica Skarbowa, “Russia has a serious budget shortfall because of its war in Ukraine and wants to…