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Azerbaijan has warned that “revanchist forces” in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora “are still strong” and are trying to undermine the historic peace process between the former rivals. In a wide-ranging panel at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai on Wednesday, Assistant of the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev told Euronews that “probably Armenian government and Armenian leadership should work to prepare their people for the peace as well.” “Now we won the war, but we are also winning in peace which is an uphill struggle,” said Hajiyev, who is also Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the…
The location “isn’t a usual [stop] of a papal visit,” said Archbishop Philippe Ballot of Metz in an interview with French weekly Le Point. “How coherent, though, when you dig deeper. On the last day of his trip, he opens up to Europe and the world,” he added. Le Point first reported the invitations. The pope will be in France for a four-day official visit from Sept. 25 to 28 and is to meet Macron at the Elysée Palace, visit Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Unesco headquarters, where he’s expected to talk about artificial intelligence. In his first major encyclical —…
The trial of Rachida Dati opened on Wednesday afternoon before the Paris criminal court. The former justice and culture minister is facing charges of passive corruption, passive influence-peddling, and concealment of abuse of power and breach of trust. At the heart of the case are the €900,000 she received between 2009 and 2013 from a Dutch subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, while she was serving as a Member of the European Parliament. The opening day was marked in particular by the absence of Carlos Ghosn. The former head of Renault-Nissan, who has been in Lebanon since fleeing Japan in 2019, is also…
The vote took place late Tuesday, and for a third time, the US House voted to end the war in Iran, attempting to cut President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action. The roll call, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. None of the resolutions have made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure. “Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?” said Democrat Representative Seth Moulton, who served as…
The La Liga president Javier Tebas criticised three Real Madrid players on Wednesday, including Kylian Mbappé, for not wearing a T-shirt properly in support of the people of Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa that has been hit by a migration crisis. Mbappé, Vinícius Júnior and Ibrahima Konaté wore the commemorative T-shirt with the sleeves partially rolled up before Real Madrid’s 3-2 victory over Elche in La Liga on Tuesday. The rest of the players wore it in the usual way. In doing so, the three players partially hid the message “We are all Ceutans”, referring to the…
The last time Article 4 was invoked — a formal request to consult allies due to a security threat — was by Estonia last year after three Russian fighter jets violated the country’s airspace. No other capital has invoked it since. Duplication drama There are few details on von der Leyen’s ideas. Earlier European security council proposals — which the EU has rejected — include the idea of capitals delegating some defense decision-making powers to a smaller group of leaders in a crisis. An Emergency Security Protocol, meanwhile, would allow one capital to convene all fellow EU members in a…
At first glance, this X account below appears to belong to a Swedish woman named Ingrid Karlsson. But the profile uses a stolen photograph, according to researchers, rarely publishes its own content and is actually listed by the social media platform as being based in Benin, West Africa. It is one of more than 8,500 accounts identified by Dutch analysis company Trollrensics and the non-profit organisation Alliance4Europe, in collaboration with Swedish broadcaster SVT. The researchers say the profiles display signs of coordinated behaviour, including similar identities, reused photographs and overlapping patterns in the Swedish political accounts they follow. Rather than…
Published on 16/09/2026 – 17:03 GMT+2•Updated 17:31 A building housing dozens of people collapsed in Gaza City early Wednesday morning, leaving rescuers clawing with bare hands through rubble until determining that 21 people, including 11 children, had been killed in their sleep. The six-storey building, which had four apartments per floor, crumbled overnight onto nearby homes and tents in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, according to the civil defence agency, which works as a rescue service under Hamas authority. The sudden collapse of the building, which was known to be unstable because of damage from Israeli strikes earlier…
Christina Poulitsi, the internationally acclaimed Greek soprano, who has appeared at iconic opera houses around the world, was a special guest performer at this year’s The Chios Festival, organised by the North Aegean Region. Together with distinguished pianist Dimitris Giakas she gave a concert at the impressive Castelli mansion in Kampos at Chios. The opera evening revolved around famous arias once sung by Maria Callas as well as the documentary by the Greek National Opera”Mary, Marianna, Maria: The unknown Greek years of Callas”. (source in Greek) Maria Callas and me A native of Chios herself, Christina Poulitsihas a deep affection…
“In this new world, we must urgently reimagine our partnerships,” von der Leyen said in the speech at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg. She added that the EU wanted to “build global coalitions for our resilience and democracies. And here too only Europe ― with its size and power ― can take the lead.” For the head of the EU’s executive branch, who’s now two years into her second five-year term, the speech amounted to a declaration of geopolitical legacy. Coming one year after she declared Europe’s “independence moment” from the same platform, von der Leyen expanded on that…