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By Sertac Aktan & AP Published on 16/04/2026 – 12:41 GMT+2 FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that Iran will participate in the World Cup “for sure” despite the ongoing war in the Middle East. Speaking at CNBC’s Invest in America Forum, Infantino said it is important that Iran participates in the World Cup even though its participation has been in doubt since the US and Israel launched airstrikes on the country on 28 February. “The Iranian team is coming for sure, yes,” Infantino said. “We hope that by then, of course, the situation will be a peaceful situation.” “As I said, that…
The incident comes after four ambulances belonging to the Jewish emergency volunteer medical service Hatzola were set on fire in north west London in March. Two men and a 17-year-old boy were charged with arson earlier this month. Detective Chief Superintendent of the Met Luke Williams said: “I hope the swift action by officers today to identify and arrest two people provides some reassurance and demonstrates how seriously we take attacks of this nature. “However, we understand the significant concern the Jewish community will feel at another incident so soon after the arson attack on four ambulances in Golders Green.…
Berlin wants to show its best side this summer and is calling on tourists to do their bit. That, at least, is the basic idea behind the “BerlinPay” scheme. Anyone who takes part, for example by collecting rubbish or supporting social projects, receives benefits in return at museums, participating restaurants or Berlin experiences. Sustainable behaviour by travellers is meant to be visibly rewarded. The concept itself is not new; the original idea comes from Copenhagen. BerlinPay: picking up litter for Berlin’s summer The city of Berlin is still looking for suitable partners, because the rewards need to be worth the…
Ukraine has shot down 90 percent of the killer drones and almost 80 percent of the cruise missiles that Russia has launched against the country in the past six months, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Berlin on Wednesday. He added that between last November and March of this year, the Kremlin launched 462 ballistic missiles, nearly 600 cruise missiles and 27,000 Shahed-type drones against Ukraine. But Kyiv still has a shortage of anti-ballistic capabilities, relying on Western supplies. There is an extreme shortage of PAC-2 and PAC-3 interceptor missiles, a scarcity…
Published on 16/04/2026 – 11:39 GMT+2 Hungary’s outgoing foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, will skip next week’s foreign affairs meeting in Luxembourg following the defeat of Viktor Orbán’s government, EU diplomats told Euronews. His office did not respond to a request for comment. Yesterday, diplomats confirmed that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will skip next week’s informal European Summit in Cyprus. Szijjártó was at the centre of controversy during the campaign over his close ties to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Leaked phone calls suggested he had offered to help remove Russian businessmen from the EU sanctions list and had contacted…
Hungary’s premier-elect Péter Magyar said he would relocate the prime minister’s office in Budapest once he is sworn in. “Under the Tisza government, the Prime Minister’s Office will not be based in the Carmelite Palace in the Castle District, which Viktor Orbán had set up for himself, but in one of the ministry buildings near parliament,” Magyar wrote on X on Thursday. The baroque Carmelite Monastery in Buda, on the western side of the Danube, historically served as a Catholic monastery and later as a theater before being converted into Prime Minister Orbán’s office in 2019 at a cost reported…
Opening his visit to Cameroon on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV delivered a pointed message on the integrity of leadership, urging authorities to confront endemic corruption. Speaking at the presidential palace in Yaoundé, he told President Paul Biya, 93, that public authority must restore its credibility by breaking “the chains of corruption”. The comments come at the start of a three-day pastoral visit, the first papal trip to Cameroon since 2009. It follows President Paul Biya’s disputed re-election in November 2025, extending more than 40 years in power, against a backdrop of governance challenges and a separatist conflict in the anglophone…
With three weeks until polling day, postal voting is under way in local and devolved elections across the UK – but will the process stay clean and how much could deepfakes distort the campaign? In Scotland, an almighty row has erupted between Labour and Reform over an alleged behind-the-scenes alliance to remove the SNP, with both parties branding each other liars. Down in Wales, questions are being raised over whether a party could win the most votes yet fail to form the next administration under the new voting system. Sam hears from the CEO of the Electoral Commission about the…
Eclectic supporters Despite years of speculation that he would go for the prime minister’s job, Radev only finally revealed his Progressive Bulgaria project in March.While Radev doesn’t formally lead Progressive Bulgaria, he is unmistakably its face. The movement features a motley assembly of politicians close to him or some who changed their allegiance, and also includes military figures, newcomers and former sports personalities. Only six women lead party lists across the country’s 31 electoral districts.“His face is everywhere, which is probably what matters, because nobody else is recognizable,” said Dimitar Bechev, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe.Progressive Bulgaria has attracted…
“Heads of state and government are right to invest significant time in the unexpected geopolitical crises that have occurred over the course of the last weeks,” said Siegfried Mureșan, the lead lawmaker on the budget from the center-right European People’s Party, from which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and most of the leaders also hail. “However, I believe that as a union we should not spend all of our political time on a single topic at a time and then ignore other subjects which are important but maybe not necessarily urgent.” Leaders have called on Brussels to help…