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Published on 02/10/2025 – 12:36 GMT+2 •Updated 13:03 Turkish Airlines is planning to start flights to the Armenian capital Yerevan amid a thaw in relations between the neighbours after decades of tension. In a filing on Tuesday, the airline expressed its desire to launch the route as long as there was enough demand for the service. The announcement from Turkey’s flag carrier followed a meeting between the special envoys of both countries in Armenia on 12 September. Turkey’s special envoy for normalisation with Armenia, Serdar Kılıç, arrived in the country’s eastern neighbour via the land border, which, more than three…
“I am sorry for that,” Macron joked. Trump has repeatedly confused Armenia and Albania when talking about his efforts to resolve the long-standing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “I solved wars that was unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania, it was going on for many, many years, I had the prime ministers and presidents in my office,” he said during an appearance on Fox News last month. And during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said, “We settled Aber-baijan and Albania,” butchering the name of one South Caucasus country and confusing the other one entirely. To be…
By Euronews Published on 02/10/2025 – 12:54 GMT+2 Police in Morocco have shot two people dead amid youth-led nationwide protests against the state of public services. The deaths occurred in the small town of Leqliaa, hundreds of miles south of the capital Rabat, after police opened fire on demonstrators, allegedly in self-defence. Morocco’s state news agency, MAP, cited local authorities as saying police shot two “troublemakers” in an act of self-defence. It claimed they had been attempting to seize police weapons, though no eyewitnesses could corroborate the report. The deaths were the first since the so-called “Gen Z” protests broke out…
The so-called “Gen Z protests,” fuelled by internet-savvy youth, are the country’s largest in years and have spread despite lacking authorisation. Anger is directed at alleged corruption and neglected schools and hospitals, contrasted with billions spent on football tournaments. In Sale, near Rabat, masked teenagers torched cars and shops, while unrest was also reported in Inzegane, Ait Amira and Oujda, where a police vehicle rammed into demonstrators. Authorities said 409 people have been arrested since Saturday, with more than 280 people injured, including security forces and civilians. At least 142 police vehicles and 20 private cars have been damaged. Amnesty…
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Published on 02/10/2025 – 10:21 GMT+2 Athletes with intellectual disabilities competed in boccia and table tennis at the European Commission during European Sports Week, pressing EU officials to increase funding and policies for inclusion in sport, education, employment and healthcare. The event, organised at the European Commission by Special Olympics, aims to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the EU. “We are here to show the European Union that funds and policies are needed for greater inclusion, not only in sport, but also in education, employment and health services,” Bulgarian athlete Viktor Petrov Hristov told Euronews. Hristov…
“If nothing changes, the outcome is already known … This government will fall,” the Socialists’ leader Olivier Faure said. Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who handles the far-right National Rally’s economic policy, accused the prime minister of trying to “buy time” by delaying budget announcements in an interview. Union leaders, who have repeatedly accused Lecornu of ignoring their demands, will spend Thursday on the picket lines in the second general strike of Lecornu’s short tenure. His first full day as premier coincided with a nebulous movement to “block everything” that failed to materialize. Lecornu has acknowledged his relatively tenuous position as a head…
Published on 02/10/2025 – 9:41 GMT+2 A widespread claim on social media alleges that the German city of Hamburg has banned music lessons in public schools because music is considered “haram”, or forbidden, in Islam. One post on X says that the ban has been brought in because it would be considered “Islamophobic” to impose music lessons on Muslims. It’s been seen more than half a million times and contains a clip of a German-language news report, which supposedly explains the details of the ban. However, none of the claims is true. While there have been some reports in German…
By JAMEY KEATEN with AP Published on 02/10/2025 – 9:42 GMT+2 Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3 per cent drop in total volume, the fourth-largest annual drop on record, due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists reported Wednesday. The shrinkage this year means that ice mass in Switzerland — home to the most glaciers in Europe — has declined by one-quarter over the last decade, the Swiss glacier monitoring group GLAMOS and the Swiss Academy of Sciences said in their report. “Glacial melting in Switzerland was once again enormous in 2025,” the scientists said. “A…
“If someone governs while constantly being pressured with this demand, they might eventually give in. After all, we’ve already seen that happen in the U.K.,” Lipavský said. Dohnal, Ostrava’s mayor, said he could see Babiš calling a referendum on NATO — but not the EU, due to the bloc’s cash helping Agrofert. “Andrej Babiš is primarily a pragmatic politician, so he tends to make decisions based on the current mood in society,” Dohnal explained. “If one of his internal polls showed that he should, for example, call a referendum on the Czech Republic’s membership in NATO, he would be capable…