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“The expansion of Alabuga and its affiliated enterprises should be viewed not merely as a problem for the Ukrainian front, but as a long-term challenge to the security of the whole of Europe,” said Serhii Kuzan, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre. In-housing production Moscow is working to increase its domestic carbon fiber production to reduce its reliance on imports from China as it aims to manufacture around 130,000 drones for its national “Unmanned Aerial Systems” project by 2030, according to an analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, this year. Russia…

Exit polls showed Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party suffering heavy losses in two German state elections on Sunday. Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union is projected to fall to 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a largely rural state in Germany’s formerly communist east. That would be its worst result there since World War II. In Berlin, the CDU is projected to finish second with 20% of the vote, trailing the Left Party at 24.5%, according to an exit poll by the public broadcaster ARD. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made significant gains in Sunday’s regional elections. The vote came two weeks after the…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 21:12 GMT+2 French President Emmanuel Macron declared that France and Canada are “two great independent nations who want to stay that way” during a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday. The bilateral summit—held in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located just off Canada’s Atlantic coast—comes against the backdrop of increasingly strained relations between the two nations and the United States. Carney stated that the time had come to significantly strengthen ties with France and the European Union. His comments follow a high-profile visit to Brussels and Strasbourg, where…

The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania race is also a key test for center-right Chancellor Friedrich Merz, as speculation grows that party insiders could move to replace him if the party collapses again in a regional election. His CDU won only 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — the worst outcome for his party in any regional or national election since the end of World War II. In Berlin, Die Linke, or the Left party, is on course to finish first with 24.5%, according to the ARD exit poll, ahead of Merz’s CDU on 20%, which currently controls the mayor’s office in the capital.

The Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that a bill focused on schools is about to be put before the Council of Ministers, with the aim of introducing bans on wearing burqas and niqabs in the classroom and imposing a limit on the number of foreign students in each class. The ban on covering one’s face in public places has previously been introduced in several European countries, including France and Belgium, and more recently, it has also been applied in Austrian schools. In other countries, such as Spain and Poland, freedom of conscience and religion is protected by the…

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Roughly 930,000 students without Italian citizenship are enrolled in the country’s schools, representing almost 11.6% of the school population, according to research institute Fondazione ISMU. Over the last decade, the number of foreign minors in the country has fallen by 4.5%, ISMU found. Meloni did not elaborate on what her cabinet’s proposed cap on foreign students might entail. The Italian leader came to power buoyed by voters concerned with immigration issues, and made tackling migration a key pillar of her campaign. It’s not the first time Meloni’s government has looked to ban face coverings. In 2025 her party said it…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 15:59 GMT+2•Updated 16:17 Russians are casting their ballots on Sunday in the final day of voting in parliamentary elections, with the pro-Putin United Russia party widely expected to emerge victorious. United Russia has won every parliamentary election in the country since 2003. The 2026 vote marks the first since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, meaning it could offer a slight hint at public sentiment towards the conflict, which has been increasingly impacting Russians at home. However, in August, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the only party opposing the war – the Yabloko…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 13:43 GMT+2 Germans are heading to the polls on Sunday in two state elections that could prove decisive for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s future. In Berlin, Merz’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is facing a close fight against Die Linke, which has strong support among young people and has pledged measures to tackle the housing crisis. In the coastal state of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania in northeastern Germany, the main race is between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the hard-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD comes into Sunday’s vote fresh off the back of its election…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 8:17 GMT+2•Updated 8:23 US embassies across the Middle East have issued security alerts warning Americans to maintain “heightened vigilance” following attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia. Embassies in Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE said the “military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly” and that the security environment remained “complex.” The alerts also advised people to “be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.” It comes after the Houthi rebels on Saturday said they had carried out two operations using ballistic and…