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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met passenger Yaniv Hayun at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday after the Flydubai flight he was travelling on was diverted to Saudi Arabia following a cockpit attack. Hayun was among the passengers who entered the cockpit and helped restrain the co-pilot after the captain was stabbed. Netanyahu hugged Hayun and praised him as a hero. The flight later arrived safely in Israel after the passengers were flown back from Saudi Arabia.
“There is obviously a tension between the right to asylum and 80,000 people appearing at the border of, for example, Ceuta,” one EU diplomat, granted anonymity to discuss the private talks, said ahead of Thursday’s ministerial. The EU also needs to discuss “what can and cannot be done” in an emergency without violating people’s rights, the diplomat said. “It’s a hard nut to crack.” “The need for having these kinds of emergency tools is pretty clear to us. The discussion is whether it should be on the EU level or more on the national level,” Sweden’s Migration Minister Johan Forssell…
By Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 23:01 GMT+2 The Danish Armed Forces have admitted to have made errors in their initial report on suspected drones of unknown origins that flew over the country in the autumn of 2025. In the run-up to a EU summit in Copenhagen at the beginning of October, drones had been sighted both above civilian and military air bases, causing heightened security measures, temporary airport shutdowns and a private drone ban. The sites affected included Skrydstrup air base — where Ukrainian pilots are trained on F-16 fighter jets. Following some scepticism about the official version of…
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By Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:55 GMT+2•Updated 20:58 Downing Street said Thursday that Manchester City were not “above the rules”, following criticism of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s comments about the case. In a statement, a No 10 spokesperson said: “As the prime minister made clear, the initial judgement is serious and there can’t be any suggestion that anyone is above the rules.” Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and an avid supporter of Everton, told the BBC on Wednesday he did not want to see the club’s Emirati owners walk away as a result of the case.…
Rather than watching re-runs of your favourite TV show from the sofa this winter, what if you could step onto the set instead? This is exactly what Gilmore Girls fans could do thanks to a new “holiday” experience launched by Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood. Taking place from 12 December 2026 to 3 January 2027 (with the exception of 25 December) fans can swap the living room for the seasonal holiday event. The new attraction weaves visitors through familiar locations from the show’s fictional Connecticut town of Stars Hollow, transforming Warner Bros.’ Burbank studio into “the most expansive and immersive…
At the event in Münster, Hendrik Wüst — the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia and the conservative politician often held up as a possible replacement for Merz — praised the chancellor’s leadership in what appeared to be an effort to project unity and quell talk of a so-called “chancellor swap.” “Chancellor Friedrich Merz assumed a pivotal role in NATO during a critical phase,” Wüst said ahead of Merz’s speech, commending the chancellor’s “clear commitment” to NATO’s 5% defense spending target. “While others hesitated, the German chancellor stayed the course, thereby providing stability to the alliance,” he went on, adding: “Thanks to…
French media outlet Mediapart has published new material in the case of the antisemitic messages attributed to Jordan Bardella. The investigative outlet on Thursday published screenshots of Facebook Messenger conversations involving him from 2013 and 2014, whose authenticity it says was established through a data extraction supplied by Meta and certified by a court bailiff, as Edwy Plenel, the outlet’s co-founder, explained on Twitter. The investigation, conducted over several months, draws on dozens of written conversations and interviews with 18 people. The exchanges from 2013 and 2014 were passed on to Mediapart by two separate sources, both from Jordan Bardella’s…
Passengers on a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv have described the terrifying moments they experienced after an altercation broke out between the pilot and co-pilot. The flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia, where it made an emergency landing. The passengers later returned to Israel, landing at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. “It’s a nightmare of a lifetime. It’s really unbelievable,” passenger Ron said after landing. “No one should have to suffer like that. It’s going to take us a long time to get through this.” Passengers said the situation quickly became chaotic, with people on board stepping in…
Objecting to protest slogans such as “Albania is not for sale” and “Albania for Albanians”, Rama said, “If you were bringing foreign capital into Germany, would you then say that Germany was being sold off?” “I represent the interests of my country, and I will continue to do so,” he added. He also said negotiations over the project were still ongoing and that they would assess its environmental impact. At a press conference in Tirana Wednesday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Rama assured that his government will “shine a spotlight on the process by ensuring full transparency…