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An 87-year-old Madrid pensioner who was evicted from her home last week will be able to return following an agreement with the property owner. Maricarmen Abascal had lived in the apartment for 71 years, and her eviction sparked protests over Spain’s housing crisis. According to Spanish media, the new eight-year rental contract will cap her rent at 30% of her net income. Maricarmen has accepted the agreement and is expected to return home after being discharged from hospital.
Published on 29/09/2026 – 11:05 GMT+2 An apparent explosion on an eastern gas pipeline in Syria halted gas flow to power stations in the latest act of sabotage against the Mediterranean country’s energy facilities, authorities said Tuesday. “A fire broke out Monday evening in a gas pipeline between the Al-Shoula area and Deir ez-Zor due to the explosion of a sectional valve caused by sabotage,” the official SANA news agency reported. Quoting an official at the Syrian Petroleum Company, SANA added that “the fire halted gas flow from the Al-Jabsah plant to power stations”. It remains unclear who was behind…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 20:52 GMT+2•Updated 22:34 Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons, the league announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the Premier League said an independent commission found that the English club had arranged “sham contracts” with commercial partners to “artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs.” City has continued to deny any wrongdoing and issued a statement later on Tuesday saying it was “disappointed and surprised” by the commission’s opinion. The club has until 2 October to…
A pilot project to send migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU to designated ‘return’ countries will be in place by early next year, Greece’s migration minister told POLITICO. 19 HRS ago 4 mins read
Hungarian prosecutors on Monday detained two former ministers over corruption and abuse-of-office allegations after parliament lifted their immunity. The detention of Miklós Seszták and Balázs Hankó is a significant development in Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s efforts to hold officials from his predecessor Viktor Orbán’s era to account. The campaign has been dubbed “Operation Purge.” Magyar, whose Tisza Party won April’s parliamentary election, has accused Orbán of running a “mafia state” that channelled billions of euros in public funds to his business associates. Tisza campaigned on a “Road to Jail” programme, and after forming a government, Magyar announced Operation Purge in…
Celine Dion surprised audiences at L’Oréal’s fashion show in Paris with a performance as Fashion Week got underway. Wearing a long black dress, the Canadian singer joined celebrities on stage and sang with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The show also featured stars including Eva Longoria, Cara Delevingne, Heidi Klum, Kendall Jenner, Viola Davis, Aishwarya Rai and Jane Fonda, as well as Turkish actress Serenay Sarikaya and Italian wheelchair fencer Bebe Vio.
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Published on 29/09/2026 – 18:31 GMT+2 Frustration within the European People’s Party is growing over Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), with senior lawmakers urging the party presidency to consider suspending or expelling it from the EPP. Gathered in Toulouse for their political assembly on Tuesday, EPP senior members expressed deep concern over events at the funeral of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, who died in late August aged 84 in a UN detention facility in The Hague. They concluded that state honours and the participation of senior Serbian officials at the funeral “cannot…
Tokyo has endured 34 consecutive days of rain, setting a new record for the city’s longest rainy streak, Japan’s weather agency said Tuesday. Footage from the Japanese capital shows pedestrians navigating heavy downpours under umbrellas, while rainwater covers the streets and vehicles move through the wet conditions. The previous record of the longest streak of rainy days in Tokyo was 33 between June 27 and July 29, 2019, said Kazuhiro Hirono, another JMA official.
The same went for a call by Jørgensen last week for consumers to reduce fuel use; national capitals would rather wait for central guidance from the Commission, according to a European energy official familiar with member-country deliberations who, like others cited in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak openly. Both O’Brien and Jørgensen also warned that it was important for such measures to be targeted and temporary to avoid uneven application that could distort the EU’s single market. The despair over energy costs lent an experimental air to the closed-door discussions held in the imposing Dublin Castle in the…