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Published on 19/10/2026 – 17:55 GMT+2 Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his partner, Argentine field hockey player Nicolás Keenan, are expecting their first child, the couple announced on Monday. “Someone very special is on the way. See you in 2027, little one,” they wrote in a post on Instagram. “There are no words big enough to thank our eggdonor, our surrogate mum Lisa and both their families. None of this would be possible without you,” they added. Jetten’s party, D66, has also released a statement, saying the pregnancy was made possible thanks to a couple they are friends with…
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Professional chefs swapped their knives for boxing gloves at a food festival in the French Alps, where they had just 20 minutes to coach amateur cooks through making a soufflé omelette. With their hands restricted, the chefs could only give advice while their teammates did all the cooking. The challenge was judged by top chefs, including Éric Frechon, who praised the results despite a few burnt pans. In the end, Patricia Mathon, who admitted she rarely cooks, took the win.
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Published on 19/10/2026 – 17:19 GMT+2•Updated 17:20 The three political groups underpinning the European Parliament’s centrist majority are set to re-elect their leaders on Tuesday, with little prospect of surprises despite growing tensions within their alliance. The European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the liberal Renew Europe group will hold internal leadership elections in Strasbourg on 20 October, with the outcomes all but a foregone conclusion. The EPP is expected to re-elect German Manfred Weber, who has led the group since 2014 and faces no challengers. “He has an iron grip on the group. No one…
Published on 19/10/2026 – 15:46 GMT+2 The World Food Programme will stop monthly assistance to half a million people in Gaza because of a funding shortfall, the UN agency said on Monday. The cuts leave 1.1 million Palestinians, around half of Gaza’s population, receiving food or cash each month. Since the October 2025 ceasefire, the WFP had been reaching between 1.5 million and 1.8 million people a month. “This has been a lifeline. But now, rather than being able to sustain and scale up that assistance, we’re actually having to reduce it,” Shaun Hughes, the WFP’s country director, told AFP…
By Doloresz Katanich with AP Published on 19/10/2026 – 16:35 GMT+2•Updated 16:40 Elon Musk on Monday pledged to give one of his own SpaceX shares to “every kid in America” next year. The offer came a day after artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced in a social media post that it would commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, subject to shareholder approval. In a response to that Sunday post, Musk wrote, “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public.” Shares of SpaceX, which will report its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, closed at $146.03 (€130.09) on Friday. With approximately…
Published on 19/10/2026 – 16:27 GMT+2 Norway is set to introduce a social media ban for children under 16, with the government announcing on Monday that it is finalising legislation to be submitted to parliament by the end of the year. The proposed restrictions will also cover potentially harmful online games and messaging services, beyond conventional social media platforms, the government said in a statement. TikTok, Snapchat and Roblox, a popular online gaming platform where users can create and play games while interacting with others, would likely fall under the proposed law. “Children’s safety must come first,” said Lene Vågslid,…
Those announcements came after an emergency meeting at the French interior ministry following scenes of widespread chaos that played out across France on Saturday. While President Emmanuel Macron attempted to reassure a worried public with a primetime address Sunday night, the speech was widely panned across the political spectrum as insufficient. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez submitted his resignation in the aftermath of the weekend’s unrest, but Macron refused to accept it. The government is now scrambling to bat down allegations that it has mismanaged the affair and stop it from snowballing into a sustained movement like the Yellow Jackets of…
Published on 19/10/2026 – 16:13 GMT+2•Updated 16:14 Slovakia and Hungary called on Brussels on Monday for greater flexibility in phasing out Russian gas, arguing that their landlocked position and reliance on existing supply routes make diversification more difficult and costly. Bratislava said it had historically served as an entry point for Russian oil and gas but now risks becoming the end of the line, alongside Hungary, as Russian energy supplies to Central Europe are due to end in 2027 under the EU’s plan to phase out imports from Moscow. “We would like to discuss with the European Commission how the…