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Published on 08/10/2026 – 15:53 GMT+2 A 24-year-old Royal Navy sailor appeared in a London court on Thursday, accused of spying for Russia. Teddy Young faces two charges under the UK’s National Security Act for allegedly obtaining and preparing to share protected information between November 2024 and May 2025, London’s Metropolitan Police Service said. “The allegation is that while serving as a Royal Navy warfare intelligence rating with high level security clearance and intelligence-system access, Teddy Stanley Greenidge Young accessed and retained sensitive UK defense and intelligence material and engaged in activity consistent with preparing to pass protected information to…
France saw hundreds of farmers gather outside the National Assembly in Paris on 8 January, to protest against the EU-Mercosur trade deal and demand greater protection for French agriculture. Around 100 tractors entered the capital before dawn despite a police ban. Some reached the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower before farmers gathered outside parliament, carrying flags and banners warning of the growing pressure on their livelihoods. The protest was organised by Coordination Rurale, whose members travelled from several French regions to demand stronger protection for domestic agriculture. They also criticised the government’s response to an outbreak of lumpy…
On Thursday afternoon the Government submitted to Parliament the draft State Budget law for 2027, two days before the deadline, after approving it this morning in the Council of Ministers. The document was handed over by the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, to the Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco. The third State Budget of Luís Montenegro’s government has its passage once again guaranteed by the Socialist Party (PS). The Socialist leader, José Luís Carneiro, announced last week the intention to abstain in the first overall vote, which takes place on 28 October, after the…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 08/10/2026 – 21:34 GMT+2 It’s Day 5 in Baku at the World Judo Championships and the action rolls on. At -70kg, Ai TSUNODA ROUSTANT was entering her first senior World Championships final. After an impressive run through the draw, the former cadet and junior world champion now stood just one contest away from a Senior World title and the red backpatch. Michaela POLLERES had built momentum with every contest. Olympic silver and bronze and also two World Championship bronzes, she was no stranger to judo’s biggest stages. Her wealth of experience could prove crucial with World gold…
The founders of more than 20 U.K. tech start-ups wrote to the government last month saying the restrictions, along with long notice periods and enforced gardening leave, were and “undermin[ing] the innovation that drives economic growth”. The options set out 11 months ago ranged from a total ban on non-compete clauses to a partial ban, such as allowing non-compete clauses only for workers earning more than a set salary threshold, or limiting their length. However, two of the six people quoted above said that the government would stop short of backing a specific option at this stage. Ministers are expected…
Italy’s cybercrime police spent Thursday responding to an ongoing cyberattack targeting the website of the Foreign Ministry, known as the Farnesina. Italian news agencies reported in the evening that the attack was believed to have been carried out by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16). According to initial reports, the incident appears to have been a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in which a website is flooded with fake requests to overwhelm its systems. However, the attack was “effectively mitigated” by security systems “without causing any disruption,” Farnesina, said in a statement. The ministry said it was closely monitoring the situation in…
Published on 08/10/2026 – 22:32 GMT+2 US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after supporting the US war against Iran. The aircraft carrier spent a record 265 consecutive days at sea amid reports of difficult conditions for its crew. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the carrier on Wednesday to present its crew with the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest military award given to a unit. He rejected suggestions that the ship had become “a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale or a symbol of a failed mission.” The carrier attracted national…
“The food was in very poor condition and I could only drink seawater that had been filtered. I had no other choice, it was never properly clean,” recalled Fredi Seprizal, an Indonesian who endured what he describes as “modern slavery” at sea and who spoke during the debate ‘Boosting the social dimension of sustainable fisheries’, held last week in the European Parliament. Seprizal’s was one of the most striking testimonies at the meeting, which took place on 30 September and was organised by Carmen Crespo (EPP), chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries (PECH), and Virginia Battu-Henriksson, a member…
MGCS — which involves KNDS France, KNDS Germany, Rheinmetall and Thales — has been bogged down by years of delays, industrial disputes and political tensions. POLITICO reported in June that the next-generation tank project was increasingly doomed. Mandon’s admission comes only a few months after another high-stakes Franco-German defense industrial program — the Future Combat Air System — abruptly ended. However, answering a question from a far-right National Rally lawmaker, the French general pushed back against the word “failure” to describe the MGCS’s fate. “It’s not a complete failure; it’s an important decision by Germany, but our land forces have worked together for several…
Published on 08/10/2026 – 21:48 GMT+2 Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has won a legal challenge over police searches of his royal residences after officers admitted the warrants were “unlawful”, a High Court judge revealed on Thursday. The court must still decide whether police can keep items seized during the searches. Both the judge and police said the investigation is ongoing. Judge Nicholas Hilliard revealed on Thursday that police had acknowledged “the search warrants were unlawful”. However, he stressed that “the fact that the search warrants were quashed does not bring an investigation to an end”, adding that Thames Valley Police…