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Published on 02/06/2026 – 17:17 GMT+2 An oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” has arrived in the Bay of Douarnenez in western France on Tuesday under the escort of the French Navy. The Tagor was intercepted and boarded in international waters off the coast of Brittany on Sunday with support from the United Kingdom, the Elysée Palace confirmed. French officials said the vessel had departed from the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk and was sailing under a false Cameroonian flag when it was intercepted. Authorities said the ship’s Russian captain initially refused orders to stop, prompting…
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China is the world’s highest, rising 625 metres above a river in Guizhou province. Since opening in 2025, it has cut a two-hour mountain drive to just two minutes, linking remote villages more easily to nearby cities. The bridge has also boosted tourism and local business. Residents use 5G coverage to promote guesthouses and manage bookings online, helping attract more visitors to an area once cut off by difficult terrain. Officials say the site has already drawn more than 2.3 million tourists. Designed as both infrastructure and attraction, the bridge now features glass…
“Flights scheduled between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. will be delayed until after 9 p.m. if possible,” the airport said on its website. Brussels South Charleroi Airport said the surprise action had already “led to the cancellation of numerous flights between 6:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.” The resumption of the strike in the afternoon is expected to disrupt most departures and arrivals until 9 p.m., according to the airport schedule. According to Belgian public broadcaster VRT, the strike at Skeyes is linked to negotiations between management and trade unions over the new digital control center serving Charleroi and Liège’s cargo…
Spain is hosting the MILEX 26 military exercise this month at the San Gregorio Training Centre in Zaragoza, manoeuvres organised by the European Union to assess the response capability of its Rapid Deployment Force in international crisis scenarios. Around 2,500 troops from 13 member states are taking part in the exercise, of whom more than 1,600 are Spanish. The aim of the drills is to test the functioning of the Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC), an EU initiative designed to strengthen its ability to respond to crises and improve coordination between EU’s armed forces. The deployment is already under way and…
Italy marked the 80th anniversary of the Republic on Tuesday with a series of ceremonies and celebrations in Rome. President Sergio Mattarella laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier’s Memorial before attending the traditional military parade through the capital. Video showed firefighters unfurling a giant Italian flag over the Colosseum, while military units, emergency services and civil protection personnel marched through the Roman Forum. The celebrations also featured a performance of the Italian national anthem by tenor Andrea Bocelli and a flypast by the Italian Air Force’s aerobatic team, which painted the sky in the colours of the national flag.…
The concerns relate to solar panels imported from China, which dominates global solar manufacturing. Campaigners and MPs accuse Beijing of forced labor abuses against the Uyghur population in the country’s northern Xinjiang province, including in solar manufacturing. Of seven companies given contracts to install solar panels on British schools last fall — funded partly by GB Energy — five could not guarantee there was no risk of forced labor in their supply chains when asked by POLITICO. A sixth firm did not respond to multiple requests for that guarantee. A seventh said it had “ruled out” the risk, although that firm obtains its solar panels from a Chinese-based manufacturer which said the “risk remains present” in its…
Prime Minister Peter Magyar has signalled an imminent deal with Kyiv to resolve the dispute over the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, raising prospects for an agreement that could finally unlock EU accession talks after years of political deadlock. Speaking to reporters in Berlin following a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Magyar said he was “very optimistic” about the discussions and pointed to a resolution on a technical level “as soon as this week”. The issue is politically delicate for both sides. “The negotiations are progressing encouragingly,” he said. “I am ready to meet with Ukraine’s…
For a growing number of people, cryptocurrency has stopped being an investment and become an addiction — one that experts say shares almost every hallmark of gambling disorder, yet remains largely invisible because society has learned to mistake compulsive trading for ambition. Cryptocurrency markets are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, lightly regulated and engineered to keep users engaged. For vulnerable individuals, that combination can be devastating and the harm, experts warn, is being obscured by the same social rewards that make workaholism invisible. Jamie Giles, client services director at Castle Craig, one of Scotland’s leading addiction…
Published on 02/06/2026 – 14:01 GMT+2 “Just sit back and relax. It will all work out well in the end – It always does!” Wise words from Donald Trump, whose advice echoes the famous quote “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” That popular saying has been misattributed to Oscar Wilde, John Lennon and Paulo Coelho. In reality, it first appeared in the 1988 book “O tabuleiro de damas” (“The Checkerboard”), by Brazilian writer and journalist Fernando Sabino. A sentiment of hope to live by, but context matters, especially when the world…
Several projections, including by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, suggest that not only could this coming El Niño reach 2C, but it may far exceed that threshold. The most recent El Niño, in 2023, ranked among the five strongest on record and helped turn 2024 into the world’s hottest year. WMO experts already warned last week that the next such event may see 2027 break global temperature records once again. However, the WMO stressed on Tuesday that the strength and peak of this El Niño are as yet uncertain. “We will speak about moderate or strong when we…