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Israel has continued to reject a ceasefire with Lebanon and was still operating there on Friday, with both sides exchanging fire. Israel’s military was also continuing ground operations in southern Lebanon, including locating and blowing up weapons, the military said. Israel has for months sought to push Hezbollah back beyond the Litani River, which cuts across southern Lebanon and has long been treated by Israel as a de facto buffer line with the militant group. Netanyahu has promised to continue striking Hezbollah in Lebanon until Israel can restore security for Israelis who live in the country’s north. Privately, Israeli officials…

Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes, but a total solar eclipse and a parade of planets, most notably our own shimmering Earth against the endless black void of space. With their flight now complete, the four astronauts have set NASA up for a moon landing by another crew in just…

Travellers are no longer treating exercise as something to pause while they are away. Across Europe, active holidays are moving further into the mainstream as more people book trips built around training, movement and recovery rather than just sightseeing or time by the pool. Traditional beach breaks are facing growing competition from active holidays, while 2026 travel trends show a rise in sport-led trips, especially around padel and pickleball. Within the fitness tourism boom, some travellers are seeking high-performance training hubs with dedicated pools, expert coaching and structured classes, while others are opting for more relaxed, active escapes built around…

Kyiv’s approach has so far been successful: On several days over the past few weeks, no ships managed to dock at Ust-Luga and Primorsk at all, and even now, the ports’ capacities are significantly curtailed. On April 10, only two ships managed to dock at Primorsk, and after that, no ships are scheduled to until April 27. Ust-Luga, meanwhile, managed to receive some more vessels, but the number remains far below its usual volume. Despite the strategic success, these attacks on Russian ports have created a mighty maritime pileup in the Gulf of Finland, with shiptrackers showing clusters of ships…

Anthropic announced on Tuesday evening that it shared its latest model with a newly formed group of 12 cybersecurity firms and 40 other unnamed organizations to scan and stress-test their systems. Experts fear the model, if used for malicious purposes, could lead to massive cybersecurity breaches across the tech supply chain. BSI has not yet directly tested the tool, Plattner said in a written statement, but the agency had conversations with developers that had have given it “meaningful insight” into how the Mythos model works. Cyber officials have dialed up their warnings in recent months that AI tools are getting better at…

“We are in a very difficult situation,” he said, adding Kyiv “cannot reject” support from either side. The remarks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has adopted a sharper tone toward Washington. In an interview this week on the podcast “The Rest Is Politics,” Zelenskyy said: “The problem is they trust Putin. And it’s a pity. “They don’t want to recognise that Putin will lie to them and that he can continue the occupation even after such steps. The Americans are sure that they can trust Putin.” Chentsov did not directly engage with those criticisms, instead pointing to President Trump’s…

Séjourné said the bloc was trying to reduce its dependence on China in strategic sectors, while still maintaining a level of openness, something he said was in Europe’s “DNA.” The Commissioner was the driving force behind the Industrial Accelerator Act — a piece of legislation that is currently in negotiations — and which would partially shut China out of European public procurement, as well as set more onerous ownership obligations when it makes large European investments. Commenting on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s upcoming trip to China on Saturday, Séjourné said that “all leaders, for many years now, have been…

Published on 10/04/2026 – 22:24 GMT+2 European airports risk a ‘systemic shortage’ of jet fuel if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully reopened within three weeks. As the Financial Times and Corriere della Sera reported on Friday, Airports Council International (Aci) Europe has warned that paraffin reserves are running low and that the impact of military activities is putting a strain on supplies. In a letter dated 9 April, sent to EU commissioners Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Transport) and Dan Jørgensen (Energy), Aci Europe director general Olivier Jankovec pointed out that the situation is more critical than initially reported, putting airlines’…

The prime minister argued Europe has the world’s best quality of life, the highest life expectancy, the greatest number of democratic governments, the most robust environmental standards and safest streets. “You only have to travel outside of Europe to truly understand what I’m talking about,” he said. “It feels good to be European.” Sánchez said that Europe deserves to be proud of its achievements, but admitted it “still has a lot of work to do.” He called for the EU to allocate a greater share of the bloc’s seven-year budget to social spending, and for Europe to remain open to…

PARIS — En France, on n’a pas de pétrole, on n’a plus de budget, mais on a des idées… C’est en tout cas ce que Sébastien Lecornu a tenté de prouver vendredi soir depuis le perron de Matignon en présentant plusieurs mesures phares du prochain plan d’électrification du gouvernement. Parmi elles, une nouvelle saison du leasing social de véhicules électriques et un fléchage des aides vers l’électrification des logements. L’élaboration du plan d’électrification, annoncé mi-février, a d’abord été un peu accélérée par la guerre entre les Etats-Unis, Israël et l’Iran, qui a débuté le 28 février en entraînant le monde…