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EU leaders, including Fico, will gather in Brussels on Thursday for a two-day summit focused on issues including energy prices and support for Ukraine, with the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expected to join them for a conversation on Friday. Oil imports and cultural integration In the August video call, Blanár raised Slovakia’s opposition to the EU’s phaseout of Russian gas imports and asked to discuss supplies at the Moscow meeting, according to the document, which POLITICO could not independently verify but bears the hallmarks of a legitimate Russian ministerial note. Slovak representatives also stressed the importance of continued Russian oil…
Pope Leo XIV had a “good night” in hospital and has eaten breakfast as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said on Thursday. “The pope had a good night in the hospital. He got up and had breakfast,” the Vatican said in a short statement on Telegram. The 71-year-old leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics announced on Sunday that he would undergo an operation to remove a nodule from his lung. After the procedure at Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, the Vatican revealed that the growth was cancerous and that surgeons had removed part of his right…
The 3,026-metre, four-lane New Yalu River Bridge links the Chinese border city of Dandong with Sinuiju in North Korea. Hundreds of people gathered in Dandong on Thursday to watch as lorries began crossing in both directions, some decorated with Chinese and North Korean flags and flowers. Completed in 2014, the bridge had stood unused for 12 years because connecting roads and customs facilities on the North Korean side were not finished. Its official opening marks a significant step in efforts to revive trade between the two countries after years of strained relations and pandemic-era border restrictions. The crossing is expected…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is looking to expand its financing of cross-border infrastructure projects in Central Asia as it seeks to support economic development across the region. “We would be, of course, very much interested not only in financing the individual country projects, but if there was a cross-country project, it would be even more interesting for us because we would also see a potential for development of the whole region,” EIB Vice-President Marek Mora told Euronews during his visit to Astana. Interstate hydropower plant One of the most prominent examples of interstate cooperation that the EIB supports in…
There are rooms with a view, and then there’s this: The highest hotel in France, located some 2,620 metres above sea level. Found in the French Pyrenees, the Hôtellerie des Laquets was originally built between 1930 and 1933. Having been closed for more than 30 years, the renovated property reopened its doors to guests in late September. The original hotel building has been kept, with furnishings paying homage to Pyrenean alpine culture, while the new wing is pure minimalist Nordic chic. Featuring 16 double rooms, all of which offer panoramic views, you can reach the hotel by taking a cable…
Published on 15/10/2026 – 9:40 GMT+2 Sally Rooney, the celebrated and best-selling Irish author behind “Conversations With Friends”, “Normal People” and “Intermezzo”, has said that she can no longer sell books in the UK. Rooney said she is being forced to withdraw her books from sale because of her public support for the organisation Palestine Action, meaning she could no longer receive royalties from UK sales. Rooney’s publisher Faber said: “Current legislation in the UK has led to circumstances where Faber cannot pass on UK earnings to Sally Rooney for her work. To sell a writer’s work and not be…
Is Reform facing another growing crisis over alleged racist, sexist and violent language within its ranks? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy assess what the latest claims within an ITV News undercover investigation mean for Nigel Farage and whether more damaging revelations are still to come. Reform says there is “no room for racism” within the party. Elsewhere, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Donald Trump is putting lives at risk by cutting Ukraine’s access to Starlink, a vital satellite technology. If the US can switch off critical military technology, how safe is Britain’s growing reliance on Elon Musk’s satellite networks? Plus, is the…
The EU’s High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has defended Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil refineries as a legitimate means of ending Russia’s war of aggression, saying the quickest way to stop them is to end the war. “If we look at international law, it is clear that [hitting refineries] is in defence of Ukraine because that is where the funding comes from for this war to kill Ukrainian people every day,” she told Euronews in an exclusive interview. The remarks come after US President Donald Trump announced a deal for Russia…
Published on 15/10/2026 – 8:58 GMT+2•Updated 9:32 The roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 27 children and a teacher and injuring more than three dozen others, an emergency services official said. Several children remained trapped under the rubble in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesperson for the emergency services. A hospital official, Mohammad Asim, also confirmed the casualties, saying some of the injured were in critical condition. Rescuers said that they were removing debris to reach those trapped. In July, a roof collapsed at a tutoring…
By Angela Barnes with AFP Published on 15/10/2026 – 8:43 GMT+2 It marked the sixth straight record quarterly net profit for TSMC, the world’s biggest contract maker of microchips, including those used in Nvidia AI data centre processors. TSMC’s net profit for July to September surged year-on-year to 763.1 billion New Taiwan dollars (€23.6bn), beating analyst estimates of NT$739.5 billion (€22.9bn). The result surpassed its previous quarterly record of NT$706.6 billion (€21.9bn) set in April-June 2026. Quarterly revenue rose 50.9% to NT$1.5 trillion (€46.4bn). TSMC shares were down 2.2% ahead of its earnings report. Following the update, it remained in the red.