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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz rejected calls from some in his party to relax its refusal to deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Monday, declaring that the still-growing party has nothing in common with his conservatives. The anti-migration AfD finished second in Germany’s snap national election in February and polls since then have shown its support base continues to grow, with some putting it level with or even ahead of Merz’s Union bloc. Merz’s nearly six-month-old governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats has annoyed many voters with public disagreements on a number of issues. Five of Germany’s…
He said that some European countries could give priority to Ukraine over their own Patriot deliveries, or else send batteries they currently possess to Ukraine. “If everyone works together and there is goodwill, the White House could assist us specifically with these American systems that are already in those European countries — so that we can receive them,” Zelenskyy said. Each system costs about $1 billion, and Ukraine’s finances are scarce. Kyiv hopes to get cash from a €140 billion reparations loan financed by frozen Russian assets that is being considered by EU countries. However, that is still not a…
By Euronews Published on 20/10/2025 – 17:08 GMT+2 A peace settlement in Ukraine “will require compromises that not everyone will like”, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wrote in an exclusive op-ed for Euronews. “This war produces no winners, only losers on both sides. Budapest offers the opportunity for a peace settlement that will enable both sides to break this impasse,” Kurz said. “The task of politics is to find solutions, not to manage conflicts,” he added. The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they plan to hold talks on Moscow’s war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the coming…
The theft, carried out in just minutes on Sunday morning, saw thieves use a basket lift to scale the building’s facade, break through a window, and smash display cases before fleeing with several items. The heist took place about half an hour after the museum opened, while visitors were already inside. French authorities said the robbery occurred only a short distance from Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, describing it as a highly professional “four-minute operation.” One of the stolen objects — the emerald-set imperial crown of Empress Eugénie, adorned with more than 1,300 diamonds — was later found outside the…
She later called France the “laughingstock of the world” and called on Culture Minister Rachida Dati — who has acknowledged “failures” in securing the world’s most visited museum in several interviews — to demand the resignations of the museum’s director and head of security. “The responsibility lies with 40 years of abandonment during which problems were swept under the rug … We always focused on the security of cultural institutions for visitors, much less for that of the artworks,” Dati told broadcaster M6 on Monday. Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a high-ranking official with the country’s biggest far-right party, the National Rally, accused…
This year’s Lumière Festival in Lyon took its final bow with a screening of Michael Mann’s epic crime drama Heat. And what a way to cap off this year’s 17th edition, which feted the American director with its honorary Lumière Award. The 1995 movie, starring Al Pacino as detective Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro as criminal Neil McCauley, is considered one of Mann’s greatest. And a sequel is on the way. “We’re in the middle of negotiations and it looks like it will go forward sometime in the summer of 2026,” shared the 82-year-old director during the festival. Heat…
Back then, Merz defended his approach, but pledged to uphold the firewall in German politics that was set up to prevent cooperation with the far right. But as the AfD keeps gaining traction, members of Merz’s conservatives — especially from eastern German states — have argued that the firewall is no longer sufficient to stop the rise of the far right. The AfD is now the largest opposition party in the Bundestag. The far-right party has found success by depicting itself as the only truly anti-immigration force in Germany, mixed with an anti-war rhetoric that is skeptical of Germany’s ongoing…
“Today’s outage shows how concentrated power makes the internet fragile and this lack of resilience hits our economies as a result,” technologist Robin Berjon said in an email. Berjon co-founded the Eurostack project — an initiative campaigning to make Europe self-reliant in digital services. “Europe’s dependency on monopoly cloud companies like Amazon is a security vulnerability and an economic threat we can’t ignore,” Cori Crider, executive director of the Future of Technology Institute, said in an email. According to AWS’s health dashboard, which shows a “running log of AWS service interruptions for the past 12 months,” the outage originated with…
The strikes killed at least 26 people, according to Reuters. Cooper, Britain’s top diplomat, said that the ceasefire “must hold and humanitarian aid must get through to those in need.” She urged that “all parties” uphold the ceasefire agreement to “avoid any further bloodshed.” Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Sunday night, US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire in Gaza was still in effect, despite the deadly strikes. Trump was unable to say if the Israeli strikes were justified: “I’d have to get back to you on that.” The Hamas-run government media office in Gaza says Israel has…
From Plaza Italia to Almagro Park, crowds of participants dressed as zombies, vampires, and fantasy characters marched along the Alameda in a lively celebration blending art, music, and performance. The event once again turned central Santiago into a carnival of creativity and horror-inspired fun. This year’s edition paid homage to the iconic Doctor Mortis, revived through artificial intelligence by Dimatica Films, which recreated the original voice of Juan Marino’s 1945 character. Live music by Los Peores de Chile, Durango, and Alley energised the crowd, while a costume competition rewarded the most imaginative looks. Families, fans, and even pets joined the…