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Latvia has experienced several drone incidents this year. NATO fighters shot down a foreign drone over the east of the country in June, while another drone was destroyed in August. Authorities later said the August aircraft was Ukrainian and had likely entered Latvian airspace from Belarus after being affected by Russian electronic warfare. Latvia’s defense ministry has warned that further foreign drones could infringe on its airspace as long as Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. The German jets, from Tactical Air Wing 74 in Neuburg an der Donau, will operate under NATO’s enhanced Air Policing North mission, which forms part…
By Kamuran Samar & AFP Published on 16/09/2026 – 18:09 GMT+2 An English village of around 350 people has voted overwhelmingly to “secede” from the United Kingdom in a symbolic referendum held in protest against plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby former military site. In Piddington, near Oxford, 285 of the 312 ballots counted backed the call for the village to seek self-determination. The referendum has no legal standing, but residents celebrated the result by putting up a sign declaring the area the “Principality of Piddington”. The vote was organised by the parish council and was inspired partly by the 1949…
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague sentenced former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi to 25 years in prison on 16 September for war crimes during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict. The 58-year-old former Kosovo Liberation Army commander was convicted of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention. He was sentenced alongside three other former KLA commanders: Jakup Krasniqi, also to 25 years, Kadri Veseli to 18 years and Rexhep Selimi to 13 years. All four were acquitted of crimes against humanity after judges found prosecutors had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that civilians had been subjected to a widespread or…
French motorists are clogging TotalEnergies service stations to fill up with discount gasoline, but its rivals are crying foul, accusing the energy giant of distorting competition with the encouragement of the government. TotalEnergies, which pumps crude oil and refines it into gasoline, also has an extensive network of filling stations throughout France, where retail sales are usually dominated by supermarkets selling gasoline at or near cost in order to pull in customers. But as oil prices shot higher this spring due to the US-Iran war, the highly profitable company announced a cap of €1.99 per litre of E10 (€2.25 per…
Published on 16/09/2026 – 17:35 GMT+2 Hundreds of European customers of digital bank Revolut had their personal information handed over to hackers after they impersonated a government agency, the company said on Wednesday. Revolut said it had identified a “sophisticated external impersonation scam” in which an unauthorised third party used an email address from a legitimate government agency domain to submit fraudulent requests for customer information. According to the Financial Times, the attack was carried out by Italian hackers who used a compromised Italian government email account to pose as officials seeking customer information. The hackers obtained data including customers’…
The Latin Recording Academy released the full list of nominees for the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards on Wednesday, and one name appears more often than any other: Edgar Barrera. The Mexican songwriter has picked up ten nominations, most of them linked to work he did for Karol G and Carín León, and he features in all three of the night’s general categories: Record, Album and Song of the Year. The ceremony, the 27th in the history of the awards, will take place on 12 November at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Behind Barrera comes a tightly packed…
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Published on 16/09/2026 – 13:54 GMT+2•Updated 13:55 Kyiv is ready for an energy ceasefire with Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Russia has yet to make the same commitment. In an interview with CBS, Zelenskyy said US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner raised the possibility during their recent visit to Kyiv. He said Ukraine agreed, on condition that Russia also stops all attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure**.** “We never attack first. Our tactic is to respond where we can because Putin doesn’t respect and won’t even think of negotiating with weaklings,” Zelenskyy said. “When Steve Witkoff and…
South Korea and the five Central Asian republics held their first heads-of-state summit in Seoul on Wednesday, adopting a 30-year cooperation framework targeting critical minerals, energy, supply chains and emerging technologies against the backdrop of a shared Silk Road history. The declaration established a leaders’ summit that brings together South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan every two years, and a new mechanism that brings together the six countries’ industry ministers. “The ‘Silk Road spirit’ of Central Asia that connected people, technologies and cultures of the East and West as one is needed more than ever,” South Korean President…
Italian startup Exein, which specialises in cybersecurity for industrial devices and machinery, has joined the ranks of digital unicorns after closing a 270-million-dollar funding round. The deal, led by global fund Headline and backed by institutional investors including the European Investment Bank (EIB), which Exein announced on Tuesday, gives the company an overall valuation of 1.7 billion dollars. In just two years the company’s value has increased thirtyfold, making it Europe’s highest-valued hardware cybersecurity firm. “Devices are no longer just connected; they are becoming intelligent. They run models, make decisions and act in the physical world,” reads Exein’s website. “The…