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The toll from flooding in and around Istanbul last week rose to eight on Monday as rescuers found more bodies after Turkey’s largest city was battered by the heaviest rainfall in over 80 years, officials said. Six died in Istanbul, while the bodies of two more people from a neighbouring province were washed up on the southeastern outskirts of the megacity, Istanbul governor Davut Gül told reporters. Wednesday’s historic rainfall, which officials said was the heaviest since records began in 1942, caused chaos and flash flooding, with footage showing cars and people being dragged away by the fast-flowing waters. By…
An Australian federal lawmaker remained in critical condition Tuesday after surgery for injuries she suffered when a car hit her in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said appeared to be a deliberate attack. Helen Haines, a 65-year-old independent, was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV outside her electoral office in the city of Wangaratta, in Victoria State, in the middle of Monday afternoon, police said. The driver was arrested and remains in custody. Albanese said the national counterterrorism team, which draws on police and intelligence agencies, was investigating. “This wasn’t an accident. There was a deliberate act, it would…
Published on 20/10/2026 – 6:07 GMT+2 Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said on Monday it would put expansion in Germany on hold, dealing a blow to Berlin as a government-backed investment summit got underway. “We have put all future investment decisions in Germany on hold for the time being,” Daniel Steiners, head of Roche Germany, told Die Welt newspaper. “As far as the pharmaceutical sector is concerned, I can say that political decisions have recently destroyed a great deal of trust.” German lawmakers in July passed a bill forcing pharmaceutical companies to cut prices as part of a bid to control…
Im einstigen Büro von Erich Honecker buhlt die deutsche Politik beim ersten „Invest in Germany“-Gipfel um ausländisches Kapital. Während das Kanzleramt die Konferenz initiiert hat, verspricht Friedrich Merz weitreichende Reformen. Es sollen Milliardenzusagen fließen. Eine ist bereits da: Von Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert zusammen mit Maximilian Stascheit, wie glaubwürdig dieser neue deutsche Pitch ist und welche Hürden ausländische Investoren weiterhin abschrecken könnten. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview warnt die finanzpolitische Sprecherin der Grünen, Katharina Beck, vor einem Ausverkauf heimischer Interessen. Angesichts gescheiterter Großprojekte wie bei Intel fordert sie bessere Rahmenbedingungen, um privates Kapital zu hebeln. Dabei steht die drängende Frage im…
Montenegro has taken steps to resolve a series of disputes with neighbouring Croatia that threaten to derail its ambition of becoming the EU’s 28th member by 2028. Last week, Zagreb circulated an eight-point list of grievances to other EU countries, setting out the issues it wants resolved before Montenegro can join the bloc. Most stem from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. “There are issues which we have signalled to our Montenegrin neighbours for years […] In the last two years, there has been no progress whatsoever,” Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said at the margins of the European Council…
By Chaima Chihi & Euronews Arabic Published on 19/10/2026 – 10:57 GMT+2 Disaster resilience in the Middle East and North Africa shows a sharp divide between Gulf states and the Levant, with Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine falling well below the global average, according to the latest worldwide risk poll published this month. The poll, conducted by Gallup for Lloyd’s Register Foundation through more than 143,000 interviews in 140 countries and territories in 2025, assesses how well individuals, households, and communities can withstand major shocks and recover. Kuwait ranked first among countries covered in the regional data with a resilience score of 74 points,…
The number of shops damaged during France’s weekend riots has reached at least 3,000, twice the figure reported just a day earlier. Yet insurers, who are expected to pick up much of the bill, still have no estimate of what the destruction will cost them. France Assureurs, the country’s insurance federation, told Euronews that its members were “fully mobilised to support affected policyholders”. It could not provide an initial estimate of losses or say how many claims had been already filed. Its crisis team is now working with public authorities across France following what the federation described as “extremely violent…
Sumar, the dominant force in the 2026 alliance, has seen its vote share more than halved since 2023 to 5%, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. “Junior partners in any coalition tend to suffer because it’s difficult for them to implement their agenda and they tend to be less visible,” said Pablo Simón, a political scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III University. Sumar has been lacking a high-profile figurehead. Yolanda Díaz, the labor minister and deputy prime minister who was once touted as a potential prime minister-in-waiting, is not running in the election. Ada Colau prepares to cast her ballot during local and regional elections…
Published on 19/10/2026 – 15:40 GMT+2•Updated 15:43 French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Monday a “massive” law enforcement operation following widespread rioting and looting across the country over the weekend. Major cost-of-living protests turned violent on Saturday, with demonstrators clashing with police in several cities. Buildings and vehicles were set alight, while masked individuals smashed shop windows and looted stores. Unrest continued in Paris on Sunday, as masked youths erected barricades and police charged crowds and fired tear gas, a Euronews journalist on the ground reported. “We have decided on several things,” Lecornu told reporters on Monday. “The first,…
Published on 19/10/2026 – 11:42 GMT+2•Updated 16:44 Australian independent lawmaker Helen Haines was deliberately struck by a car and suffered “critical injuries” on Monday in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as an attack. Haines was hurt outside her office in Wangaratta, just over 200 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, police said. The 65-year-old “suffered what has been described as critical injuries”, Victoria Police Acting Superintendent Ashley Mason said, without identifying the victim in line with police custom in Australia. The 43-year-old male driver was detained by civilians, Mason said, and then arrested by police, who found a knife in his…