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By Rebecca Ann Hughes & HANNAH SCHOENBAUM with AP Published on 21/11/2025 – 12:46 GMT+1 •Updated 13:41 A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold on Thursday for $54.7 million (€47.4 million) and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed – titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” – surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1″, which sold for $44.4 million (€38.5) in 2014. The sale at Sotheby’s in New York also topped Kahlo’s own auction record for a work…
In his letter to prosecutors, Margetić cites a 1993 video and purported wartime interviews, along with testimony from Bosnian officials as evidence that Vučić was a “war volunteer” in Sarajevo in 1992 and 1993, and a member of the New Sarajevo Chetnik Detachment of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). He further alleges that Vučić spent several months stationed at a frontline position at Sarajevo’s Jewish cemetery. Responding to the allegations about the 1993 footage, which allegedly shows him holding a sniper rifle alongside other armed men at the cemetery, Vučić insisted: “I have never in my life held a…
Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajić is optimistic that his country will conclude the vetting process for EU membership in 2026. “We are gunning for closing all the chapters by the end of next year,” Spajić said in an exclusive interview with Euronews in Brussels. “And we have a really, really great chance to have a new member state” during the term of the current European Commission which expires in 2029. Montenegro is the smallest of the nine EU candidate countries, with just over 620,000 nationals. It is currently the most advanced in implementing the constitutional, judicial and economic reforms required…
Ukraine said at least five people were killed on Thursday night after a Russian drone strike hit Zaporizhzhia. Three others were injured as fires spread through market stalls and a car, keeping firefighters on site until the early hours. Authorities added that psychologists supported a dozen people at the scene while pyrotechnic teams searched for unexploded devices. Similar strikes in Odesa injured five people, including a child, and damaged several buildings. Away from the attacks, President Zelenskyy met visiting US officials and said both sides were ready to work on practical steps toward peace, stressing the need for steady and…
Sweden has asked its cyber agency to bolster security measures ahead of a general election next year, warning for what it called a “serious security situation.” Cyberattacks against Sweden are on the rise, the country’s defense ministry said Friday. “Threats in the cyber domain are increasing and Sweden is far from spared,” Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said. Sweden is holding a general election on Sept. 13 next year. Given the increase in attacks, the government has told the agency to assess the threats to Sweden, propose defenses and plan cyber exercises, it said.
Published on 21/11/2025 – 11:22 GMT+1 •Updated 11:55 What do COP30, Shein’s Paris protests, and a possible rewrite of Europe’s privacy rules all have in common? They are all up for discussion this week in Brussels and they are conversations points on this week’s episode of our podcast, “Brussels, My Love?”. For the third episode, we are joined by Belgian climate activist Chloé Mikolajczak, the Finnish EU-watcher Tomi Huhtanen, who directs the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, and Dutch Renew Europe MEP Brigitte van den Berg, who joins us from Brazil. Send us your feedback to [email protected] Listen to…
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The 20,000-square meter building near the Tower of London is expected to be the biggest embassy in Europe once completed. Beijing purchased the site for £255 million in 2018, but objections have since been raised over its proximity to cables carrying communications to the vital City of London financial district. There are also concerns over Beijing’s refusal to present full internal layout plans to British authorities. China angrily warned of “consequences” if the embassy was not granted planning permission, with British ministers repeatedly delaying a decision on whether to proceed. However, the outgoing head of MI6, Richard Moore, recently said…
A viral Grok-generated response in French, shared on X has sparked outrage and potential legal action after it falsely claimed that crematoria at Auschwitz concentration camp were built for disinfection rather than mass murder. On 17 November, Grok answered questions about common myths surrounding the Holocaust in a thread under a post by a convicted French Holocaust denier and neo-nazi militant. When one X user asked Grok about whether gas chambers in the camp were originally built as disinfection to prevent infectious diseases, Grok responded in French that “the plans of the crematorium at Auschwitz reveal facilities designed for disinfection…
By Euronews Published on 21/11/2025 – 10:56 GMT+1 Authorities across seven European countries have dismantled a criminal organisation that smuggled stolen cultural artefacts across the continent for more than 16 years, Bulgarian officials announced on Thursday. The coordinated action involved 131 searches of properties, vehicles and bank vaults across the seven nations, according to Europol. Officers seized more than 3,000 artefacts, including ancient gold and silver coins and other antiquities valued at over €100 million. Authorities also confiscated artworks, weapons, documents, electronic devices, substantial cash sums and investment gold. The operation resulted in 35 arrests linked to a network trafficking thousands…