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Violent clashes erupted between police and demonstrators outside Albania’s parliament on Thursday, as protests against a controversial resort development linked to US President Donald Trump’s family continue. Since late May, protests have been held against the construction of a luxury hotel linked to Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner in a nature reserve in Zvernec, on Albania’s southwestern coast. For the second time this week, large groups of protesters had gathered outside the country’s parliament in an attempt to confront lawmakers and block entry to the building. Hundreds of demonstrators were met with lines of riot police who…

Alors que l’entreprise d’intelligence artificielle qu’il a cofondée a soufflé sa troisième bougie, Arthur Mensch poursuit sa mutation de chercheur en intelligence artificielle à oracle des dépendances européennes en matière technologique. Devant l’Assemblée, début mai, il a enchaîné une série de constats et de recommandations en faveur d’une meilleure autonomie européenne dans ce domaine. La séquence est devenue virale, car elle questionne l’intérêt réel des politiques face aux enjeux de la course mondiale au meilleur modèle d’IA. Le patron de Mistral AI porte ses messages dans les rendez-vous officiels et les sommets internationaux, qu’il enchaîne — il était à la…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 17:07 GMT+2 A handshake, €150,000 in cash and a coded text: Maltese prosecutors on Thursday set out their case against a tycoon accused of ordering the murder of a prominent investigative journalist. Yorgen Fenech is accused of masterminding the 2017 killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia in a case that shook the island nation and brought down a previous government. After the defendant attempted to escape on his yacht in 2019 and many procedural delays, Fenech’s trial finally began on Wednesday. He denies the charges. According to the indictment, cited by the Times of Malta, the 44-year-old…

Dans la vie de ce constitutionnaliste, il y a eu un avant et un après 9 juin 2024. La dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale l’a transformé, à 38 ans, en distributeur d’analyses et de remèdes juridicopolitiques. Un brin cocasse, quand on sait que sa thèse, préfacée par Gérard Larcher, porte sur la légitimité du Sénat. L’encre de son dernier livre Crise politique, Crise de régime (Odile Jacob) à peine sèche, il finalise déjà son prochain manuscrit sur la crise… de l’Etat. Entre deux cours de droit public à Assas, quand on ne le croise pas près du Palais-Bourbon, plaidant pour la…

EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is facing renewed scrutiny after a leaked European Commission document indicated that Hungary’s Permanent Representation operated a spy ring during his tenure as Hungary’s permanent representative. Last October, several media outlets reported that Hungary’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels had allegedly run a network of intelligence officers posing as diplomats, who targeted Hungarian nationals working at the Commission between 2012 and 2018. Várhelyi was drawn into the investigation because he served as Hungary’s ambassador to the EU between 2015 and 2019, which overlapped with part of the period under scrutiny. He was later nominated…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 21:52 GMT+2•Updated 22:06 A year after being chosen to deliver the speech on Portugal Day, Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge, one of the country’s leading contemporary literary figures, has received the highest distinction awarded to authors writing in Portuguese, the Camões Prize. Jorge thus succeeds the Angolan poet Ana Paula Tavares, who received the prize last year. Born in Tavira in 1946, Lídia Jorge is the author of more than a dozen titles, mainly novels, beginning in 1979 with the publication of O Dia dos Prodígios. Her most recent novel, Misericórdia, published in 2022, is largely autofiction,…

Groundworks began at the site in Ancoats last month. The government has previously said it will be the workplace for around “8,800 people from multiple government departments with a focus on digital delivery.” Burnham did not set out a timescale for the creation of “No. 10 North” or discuss how many people it could involve. However, he has said it will be tasked with reforming utilities, regeneration and reindustrializing Britain, centralizing many powers held elsewhere in Whitehall. In the wide-ranging interview, Burnham also said the whipping system in Westminster should not be used to “punish” MPs and said he would…

Published on 02/07/2026 – 21:10 GMT+2•Updated 21:13 The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Thursday that eight people had been arrested as part of a probe into an international network of men drugging and sexually abusing women they know. The NCA, which looks into international crime, said it had uncovered a global network of predominantly men suspected of offences, known as organised drug-facilitated sexual assault, after a 2025 tip-off by German journalists about a platform used to facilitate them. The crime agency found “a truly international network with group members identified in dozens of countries spanning every continent,” said…

Depuis plus de trente ans, les Français la connaissent comme présentatrice d’une vingtaine d’émissions, parmi lesquelles Stars à domicile (TF1). Au-delà de la télé, c’est son combat contre les violences sexuelles qui a donné de l’écho à sa parole. Cette année, son témoignage à visage découvert et sa plainte pour viol contre Patrick Bruel, déposée le 13 mai, ont contribué à la mise en examen du chanteur pour viol, tentatives de viol, d’agression sexuelle et de harcèlement sexuel, alors que plusieurs enquêtes avaient déjà été publiées. Le 9 et le 23 juin, elle était aux côtés des manifestantes, Place Vendôme…

Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in southern France and water-bombing helicopters deployed to battle wildfires after a record-breaking heatwave last month, officials said on Thursday. Tourists and local residents had to be moved after a wildfire broke out in the town of Sainte-Marie-la-Mer and spread to Canet-en-Roussillon. Firefighters said nearly 3,000 people were evacuated with half of them from three campsites in the affected area. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries, said Pierre Regnault de La Mothe, the top regional official for the southern department of Pyrenees-Orientales. Two hundred firefighters and four water-bombing aircraft were deployed to put out the…