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By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 05/03/2026 – 18:36 GMT+1•Updated 19:14 Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly been released after being arrested over a charge that’s not been made clear by Los Angeles police. According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office, she was detained on Wednesday night and records show she has court date fixed on 4 May. Spears, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the ’90s and 2000s. She rose to fame from Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club to MTV and beyond, with such era-defining hits like ‘……
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago, Finland joined NATO and has been accelerating and revamping its defense plans. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
By Sandor Zsiros & FT Published on 05/03/2026 – 19:38 GMT+1•Updated 19:53 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sparked a sharp diplomatic row with Hungary after remarks directed at Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about giving his phone number to Ukrainian troops to have a conversation with him. The remarks have been condemned in Budapest as a death threat, adding fresh tension to an already fraught relationship between the two countries. The exchange comes as Hungary prepares for parliamentary elections in April, with Ukraine’s EU accession bid and relations with Kyiv emerging as a main campaign issue. At the heart of the dispute is the Druzhba…
That has left a significant hole in Mauritius’ budget, and Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has told a local website he’s in talks with law firms to explore a fightback. “We are exploring legal avenues in the Chagos case,” he told Mauritian news organization Defi Media, arguing they’ll have to fill a 10 billion Mauritian Rupee hole (£160 million) in the nation’s coffers. “We are exploring all possible avenues, but clearly the 2026-27 budget will not be an easy one,” he added. The British government devised the deal in order to secure the joint U.S.-U.K. base because it feared losing the…
A new night train linking Brussels with Milan will no longer launch in June as planned. The route operated by European Sleeper will now take to the rails in September, instead. The company said track works in Germany during summer 2026 and the certification process for Switzerland – a new country for its networks – had caused the delay. The new European sleeper route was due to start running on 18 June; it will now start operating on 9 September. “Although the first departure comes a few months later than originally planned, the new connection marks an important milestone,” the…
Finland’s Interior Minister Mari Rantanen, who also oversees migration, criticised Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez’s decision to regularise thousands of undocumented migrants, suggesting it poses a risk to the Schengen area. “I wouldn’t ever suggest acts like that,” the minister told Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. “The other thing is that, when we are in a common area, the Schengen area, this team Europe that people are talking about, then I think there is a high risk when some countries are doing basically the complete opposite of the other countries,” she added. “Because now, for example, those people are very…
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Japanese startup Space One aborted the launch of its Kairos rocket shortly after takeoff from the Spaceport Kii launch site in Wakayama Prefecture. The rocket lifted off before appearing to lose stability in midair and fall, leaving smoke visible in the sky. The Tokyo-based company said it terminated the flight after determining that mission success was unlikely. The launch had aimed to make Space One the first private Japanese company to place a satellite into orbit.
The war in Iran since the end of February has triggered an energy price shock and affected oil, petrol, diesel and gas. The higher costs for consumers and energy-intensive industries such as chemicals and steel are also putting pressure on the German economy — which is already under strain due to less-than-ideal economic forecasts. Now the euro, currently valued at around $1.16 — is also suffering. The euro could be hit particularly hard if the scenario of the Iran war lasting significantly longer than the “four weeks” announced by the US president materialises. Economist Daniel Stelter warns that “an already…
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