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The eurozone economy held up well at the end of 2025, with three of the region’s four largest countries growing by more than expected. Preliminary data from the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat, on Friday showed that the eurozone’s economy expanded by 0.3 percent during the last three months of last year, unchanged from the third quarter. That was better than market expectations of an increase of 0.2 percent. In year-on-year terms, gross domestic product growth slowed by less than feared, to 1.3 percent from 1.4 percent in the previous quarter. GDP was up 0.3 percent in Germany, the region’s biggest…
The controversy began after reports suggested agents from the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency would be present at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Centre-left opposition parties warned that it could be given a part in security measures on Italian soil as the games got underway — a claim that quickly gained traction amid heightened scrutiny of ICE in the US. Speaking to Italian radio station RTL 102.5, Milan’s mayor Giuseppe Sala took a firm stance against any such move, describing ICE as “a militia that kills, that enters people’s homes by signing its own warrants”, and adding…
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New bombardment Indeed, there was little sign of goodwill from the Russian side on Friday. The Russian armed forces shelled Ukraine with more than 112 drones and various missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force reported Friday. Although Kyiv has not been attacked on Friday, and no strikes on energy facilities were reported, the eastern region of Kharkiv was heavily shelled. Two people there were wounded, and one person was killed, the governor, Oleh Synegubov, said in a Telegram statement. Civilian infrastructure was hit and power cables were damaged by the attacks. The air force also reported Russian drones in Sumy, Dnipro…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & Damaso Jaivenois Published on 30/01/2026 – 11:30 GMT+1•Updated 11:54 Some good news for air travellers. Many European airports are finally ditching the controversial 100 millilitre limit on cabin bag liquids, marking the end of an era of minuscule, overpriced creams and shampoos. It follows the rollout of new CT security scanners, which provide high-resolution 3D visuals detecting both solid and liquid explosives. Last July, the EU Commission said that a move to scrap the rule across the whole bloc is also in the pipeline. The 100ml limit was introduced in Europe and beyond in 2006, after UK police had…
Published on 30/01/2026 – 9:26 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump has it is “very dangerous” for close ally Britain to deal with China, as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in the country for talks with President Xi Jinping aimed at resetting relations. Trump made the remarks to reporters while attending the premiere of a documentary about his wife, First Lady Melania Trump. Asked about the UK “getting into business” with China, Trump said “Well it’s very dangerous for them to do that.” Starmer’s visit to China is the first by a British premier since 2018 and follows a slew…
Springsteen’s song also contains the line: “King Trump’s private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats, came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, or so their story goes.“ Though this is slightly undone for me — and surely only me — by the fact that I always confuse DHS (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) with DFS (a British discount sofa retailer that’s had a sale on for decades). Trump’s no fan, of course, and has previously called Springsteen a “dried-out prune of a rocker.” Meanwhile, Neil Young gave everyone in Greenland free access to his music and…
A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old Minnesota native who has a history of drug and other arrests and disclosed last year in court papers that he suffers from mental illness, was arrested and charged with impersonating a federal officer in a foiled bid to free Mangione from the Metropolitan Detention Centre. Mangione is being held at the Brooklyn jail while awaiting state and federal murder trials in…
By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 30/01/2026 – 9:21 GMT+1 A British medical student paralysed in a diving accident has regained a degree of independence after receiving a brain implant developed by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, as part of an early-stage clinical trial in London. Sebastian Gomez-Peña is among the first patients in the United Kingdom to test the device, which allows users to control a computer using only their thoughts. Implanted during a five-hour operation at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), the chip connects to the brain via microscopic threads and transmits neural signals wirelessly to a computer. Offering hope to…
By Dianne Apen-Sadler Published on 30/01/2026 – 10:00 GMT+1 When you think about European wines, certain destinations spring to mind: Bordeaux, Tuscany, Rioja – the kind of places you’d jet off to in search of sunny weather. Yet in recent years the wine landscape has been evolving, with vineyards popping up across colder climes in northern Europe. The reason behind the development is twofold: The creation of new hybrid grapes that can withstand the weather, and the impact of climate change on the region’s seasons. It means the tipples we drink are changing, but so too are the destinations we visit…