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BRUSSELS — The European Union is beefing up its presence in the Arctic to catch up with neighboring powers carving new trade lanes and drilling for resources under the melting ice. On Tuesday, the EU unveiled a new plan called Northern Neighborhood. It’s meant to prepare for rising military and commercial activity in the north driven by climate change, and calls for new transport, research and security infrastructure in the region. “The Arctic is one place where the tectonic plates of geopolitics are colliding. And it’s not someone else’s frontier. It’s part of the European Union,” Commission President Ursula von…
By Euronews Persian Published on 20/10/2026 – 18:34 GMT+2 Iran’s IRGC said two oil tankers struck mines the elite paramilitary had laid in the Strait of Hormuz, setting both vessels ablaze, as Tehran threatened further attacks on shipping and cutting undersea cables while promising to unveil new weapons in its arsenal. The IRGC said in a statement that the tankers tried to use what Iran unilaterally designates an unauthorised route through the strait’s southern section, near the Omani coast. “With the explosion of mines laid by the IRGC Navy in the illegal passage south of the Strait of Hormuz, two offending…
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In a rare public appearance, Qatar’s head of the Intelligence and Security Authority Brigadier General Khalid Mohammed Al-Nuaimi revealed how Qatar took the dramatic decision to redeploy its entire defensive systems in just six hours to counter Iran’s war threats. Addressing the Global Security Forum in Doha on Tuesday, Al-Nuaimi said the redeployment was “unprecedented and successful”, based on eight months of adapting Qatar’s forces, defence capabilities, and military doctrine, which had been built for a totally different threat landscape. When asked about Qatar’s response to countering drones during the war, Qatar’s head of Intelligence replied that the six-hour…
Some of the world’s leading scientific minds are gathering in Tenerife to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Starmus Festival, that’s devoted to science and music. Under the theme ‘The Search for Truth’, the week-long event brings together Nobel prize-winners, astronauts, conservationists and artists, such as Queen guitarist Brian May and keyboardist Rick Wakeman to discuss and share ideas on the value of studying science. The festival also strives to bring into the mix key figures from pop culture who have successfully communicated about science in their art.
The new deal keeping the government afloat expires in six months, and parties will need to renegotiate the pact with no agreement yet on what comes next. During this period, the Social Democrats will try to pass an investment-focused 2027 budget by the end of November, steering Bucharest away from austerity, party leader Sorin Grindeanu told POLITICO Playbook Capitals in an interview. “Romania needs an economic recovery plan, not austerity,” he said. “Our priorities are protecting purchasing power and supporting business, restarting public investment, and improving essential public services.” Grindeanu added that he aims to revise the 2026 budget by the end of October…
King Charles III has welcomed Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tarik to Windsor, marking the start of a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom. The King was joined by Queen Camilla, Prince William and Princess Catherine to greet the Sultan on Tuesday, 20 October. Following the welcome, King Charles and Sultan Haitham climbed aboard a horse-drawn carriage for the procession to Windsor Castle, where a ceremonial welcome took place within the castle grounds. The visit brings the Omani leader to the UK for three days of state engagements.
U.S. early warning “always worked and then suddenly it malfunctioned. Nobody in Ukraine believes in this,” an official familiar with the matter told POLITICO on condition of anonymity. “Americans first said it happened because of weather conditions, then it was a software malfunction, then something else … They do not provide an official explanation.” However, Rubio said the U.S. was looking into why Ukraine had problems with information about Russian missiles on Oct. 13 and 18, saying, “perhaps it was an internal issue in terms of them being able to take the information that was being provided and systemize it…
Published on 20/10/2026 – 15:43 GMT+2 Australian model and swimwear designer Sahara Ray has died aged 34. Her family said in a statement to US celebrity news website TMZ that she died on Sunday night surrounded by family at the hospital. Her cause of death has not been made public. The daughter of Australian surfer Tony Ray, she founded the label Sahara Ray Swim in 2014 and was photographed on holiday with Justin Bieber in 2016. She gave birth to her daughter, Snow, in January this year.
Published on 20/10/2026 – 14:56 GMT+2 A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused serious failures to services on Tuesday, the US technology giant said, as several UK banks reported widespread disruptions. Google said in a service update that its Cloud services suffered an outage “due to a power event”, adding that a full recovery was expected at around 1300 GMT on Tuesday. Services for the digital bank Revolut, including withdrawals from ATMs, bank transfers and bank card top-ups, were disrupted, which a source close to the matter attributed to the Google Cloud failures. UK lenders…