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Published on 10/02/2026 – 9:51 GMT+1•Updated 9:59 Director Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood have requested that their Phantom Thread music be removed from the Melania Trump documentary. In Melania, a segment of music from the 2017 film Phantom Thread is played – a long excerpt of Greenwood’s ‘Barbara Rose’. Directed by Anderson and featuring a score from Greenwood, the film was Oscar-nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Original Score. Both the director and the composer have requested that the music be removed from the Brett Ratner-directed documentary, claiming that its inclusion is a “breach” of their composer…
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Published on 10/02/2026 – 10:18 GMT+1•Updated 10:19 The European Union remains the least corrupt region globally, but anti-corruption efforts have largely stalled over the past decade, according to Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index released on Tuesday. The global average has fallen to a new low of 42, while the EU’s regional average stands at 62 out of 100. Since 2012, 13 countries in western Europe and the EU have significantly declined, and only seven have significantly improved. Hungary scored 40 in the index, tying it with Bulgaria as the worst-performing EU member state. Romania scored 45. The erosion of…
By Euronews Published on 10/02/2026 – 9:56 GMT+1 US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Armenia on Monday for talks on further consolidating a peace process with Azerbaijan, becoming the first sitting US vice president or president to visit the country. Vance held discussions with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan before heading to Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Tuesday, with Washington seeking to advance a trade corridor that would reshape the South Caucasus. “We are not just making peace for Armenia. We are also creating real prosperity for Armenia and the United States together,” Vance said at a joint news…
After a helter-skelter 24 hours — with calls for the PM to quit and another senior resignation from the heart of No10 — has Keir Starmer done enough to convince his party he is the man for the future, or has he simply just bought time? Sam and Anne reflect on a tumultuous day in Westminster and look ahead to challenges facing the Prime Minister in the coming weeks and months. Away from the psychodrama, the duo consider where this leaves Wes Streeting after he voluntarily shared his messages and WhatsApp’s with Peter Mandelson — it could lead to a…
Good morning, I’m Mared Gwyn writing from Brussels. Welcome to Tuesday. EU leaders are raising the stakes ahead of their informal gathering on Thursday, with both European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron unveiling separate pitches for a major overhaul of Europe’s economic doctrine over the past 24 hours. In an interview with seven media outlets published earlier today, Macron repeated his call for the EU to issue common debt to fund strategic investments, saying the move is needed to “challenge the hegemony of the dollar” and avoid Europe becoming a spectator of its own…
By Jennifer McDermott with AP Published on 10/02/2026 – 8:20 GMT+1 Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops – signs of a warming world. “I definitely thought we’d be wearing all the layers,” says Jay Tucker, who came from Virginia to cheer on Team USA and bought hand warmers and heated socks in preparation. “I don’t even have gloves on.” The timing of winter, the amount of snowfall and temperatures are all less reliable and less predictable because Earth is warming at a record rate, says…
The tourism economy flourished, but it came at the cost of local residents, who were ejected from apartments hastily converted into short-term rentals and priced out of their local tascas. Home prices across the country jumped more than 124 percent between 2015 and 2025, and the median price-per-square meter in Lisbon now hovers around €5,914. “There are pluses and minuses to tourism, and it’s helped rehabilitate many of our cities,” said Sérgio Sousa Pinto, a Socialist Party lawmaker who served in the national parliament from 2011 to 2025. “But that’s not top of mind for a family that can no…
Published on 10/02/2026 – 7:45 GMT+1•Updated 8:02 On today’s show: Our EU Editor Maria Tadeo reports from Strasbourg on the reactions to Ursula von der Leyen’s letter pitching a “two-speed Europe”. Interview with Member of the European Parliament Riho Terras from the European People’s Party Group. Live connection with Euronews Berlin, where Laura Fleischmann reports on the apparent Merz–Meloni “romance”. Our Ukraine correspondent Sasha Vakulina fills us in on the latest developments in the Ukraine peace talks. Who’s Bad Bunny? Our Jakub Janas explains. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon…
By Ioannis Karagiorgas Published on 09/02/2026 – 7:11 GMT+1•Updated 10/02/2026 – 7:11 GMT+1 Cyprus is taking a major step into artificial intelligence development with the launch of its AI Factory, which will connect to Greece’s Pharos facility to share advanced computing resources. The country’s Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking approved the AI Factory Antennas call in late 2025, paving the way for the Pharos-CY initiative. “With the establishment of the AI Factory and the digital transformation of services, Cyprus is moving dynamically into the digital era, creating infrastructure and tools that will be used…