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By Euronews Published on 10/12/2025 – 18:12 GMT+1 A teenager has confessed to starting a fire that destroyed a stand at the stadium of a storied Finnish football club, police said on Wednesday, though the suspect cannot face criminal charges due to age. Three minors, all under 15, were present when the blaze began at FC Haka’s Tehtaan kenttä stadium in Valkeakoski, some 150 kilometres north of Helsinki, on Sunday evening, according to Finland’s Sisä-Suomi police. One of the three admitted to igniting an object that sparked the fire, which completely destroyed the end stand and damaged portions of the artificial…
Trump’s virulent attack on European leaders — who he said were “weak” and presiding over “decaying” nations due to mass migration — did not come up during her meetings on Wednesday, which included talks with European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner and Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot, Cooper said. Cooper announced earlier Wednesday that the U.K. Foreign Office will double the size of its migration unit, which is involved in discussions around the return of migrants to other countries. The U.K. foreign secretary did not rule out taking up an offer by Jordan Bardella, the leader of France’s far-right National…
Revenues from the sale of weapons and military services by the world’s biggest arms companies have reached a record high due to rising geopolitical tensions. They increased by 5.9% to $679 billion (€583 billion) in 2024 — the highest figure ever recorded, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The rise in the total arms revenues was mostly due to overall increases in the arms revenues of companies based in Europe and the United States. At least 65% of European arms companies in the top 100 were expanding production capacity in some form in 2024. Excluding Russia, the…
The drone revolution is not just unfolding on the front lines in Ukraine — it is increasingly making its presence felt in the West as well. Western militaries, including Germany’s Bundeswehr, are being forced by Russia’s war in Ukraine to rethink their modernisation plans. The focus isn’t solely on expensive tanks, as small, agile, and, above all, cost-effective drones are now in high demand. Just recently, it was announced that the Bundeswehr plans to deploy six attack-drone units in the coming years. “We’ve already started running tests,” said Lieutenant General Dr Christian Freuding, who was appointed Inspector of the Army…
Die politische Spannung vor dem EU-Gipfel steigt und Wolodymyr Selenskyj setzt ein überraschendes Signal: Er erklärt sich bereit, Neuwahlen binnen 60 bis 90 Tagen abzuhalten, sofern Sicherheit und internationale Unterstützung gewährleistet sind. Ein Schritt, der direkt auf Donald Trumps jüngste Angriffe auf die demokratische Legitimität der Ukraine reagiert. Die Folge beleuchtet, wie Selenskyj mit diesem Vorstoß den Druck zurück nach Washington lenkt, welche Sicherheitsgarantien dafür überhaupt notwendig wären und warum eine Wahl im Krieg – von besetzten Gebieten bis zur Frontlinie – praktisch kaum realisierbar scheint. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen ab 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski…
European lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to delay the application of the bloc’s carbon tax on buildings and road transport until 2028, one year later than the European Commission initially proposed. Households and businesses using fossil fuels for heating and transport will likely see higher bills once the new version of the European Union’s emissions trading system (ETS), or carbon market, comes into full effect. Under the new arrangement, fuel suppliers, rather than end consumers such as households or car users, will be asked to monitor and report their emissions. The Commission argues that the prices set by the carbon market…
Iran has resumed massive production of ballistic missiles six months after the 12-day conflict with Israel, with factories operating “around the clock” to rebuild capabilities destroyed in Israeli strikes, according to Israeli military officials and regional intelligence assessments. Israel’s top military representative warned lawmakers during an unpublicised meeting of the Knesset’s foreign and defence affairs committee that Iran’s efforts to rebuild its missile capability are under way at high speed, Israeli media reported. Western diplomats have raised concerns in recent weeks that Tehran is trying to accelerate the recovery process after Israel targeted “planetary mixers,” a key component of solid…
Published on 10/12/2025 – 15:33 GMT+1 An “interlinked, whole-of-society and whole-of-government” approach to reshape the economy and environment remains our only choice amid the escalating threat of climate change. That’s the warning inside the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Environment Outlook 7report ‘A future we choose’, which calls for a global change in direction to help secure a healthy planet and “prosperity for all”. Produced by 287 scientists from 82 countries, the report details the devastating impacts climate change will unleash unless nations rally together to transform systems such as energy and food. UN calls for a global shift…
Published on 10/12/2025 – 14:54 GMT+1 •Updated 15:35 Taking an astonishing 29 hours, the world’s longest flight made its record-breaking debut this month. China Eastern Airlines operates the marathon link between Shanghai and Buenos Aires, with a short stopover in Auckland. The inaugural service departed Shanghai Pudong International Airport on 4 December. The southbound journey takes just over 25 hours, while the return to China stretches to roughly 29 hours in the prevailing winds. Operated by a 316-seat Boeing 777-300ER, the twice-weekly service covers around 20,700 kilometres and lands at Ezeiza International Airport outside the Argentine capital. A new ‘southbound…
Italian cooking, and all its traditions, have been hailed as models to follow and protect by the UN’s cultural agency. At a meeting on Wednesday in New Delhi of Unesco’s Intergovernmental Committee, a unanimous decision was taken to safeguard Italian cuisine on its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Humanity. It’s the world’s first cuisine to be recognised in its entirety. In a statement, the committee described Italian cooking as a “cultural and social blend of culinary traditions”, praising the practice as “a way of caring for oneself and others, expressing love and rediscovering one’s cultural roots, offering communities…