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President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he feared for trust in France’s institutions after a botched investigation into the main suspect in an 11-year-old girl’s likely murder triggered public outrage. The body of the girl, named as Lyhanna, was found last week after she went missing on 29 May in the southwestern town of Fleurance. The suspect, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. “It is trust in our institutions that is at stake,” Macron told a cabinet meeting,…
Riot police used tear gas and heavy deployments to disperse crowds, while some demonstrators threw objects and set small fires in the streets. Residents fear the centre could expose local communities to Ebola, even though Kenya has recorded no confirmed cases. The unrest has become a significant political and public health controversy in the East African nation. The dispute has continued despite a Kenyan High Court order suspending construction and banning the arrival of foreign patients pending a legal challenge filed by the Law Society of Kenya and a constitutional watchdog group. Protesters argue the agreement lacked transparency and public…
Release the files! This has been going on long enough, and it’s high time that the powerful were held accountable for their lies. The conspiracy must be exposed, and the truth needs to be given to the people. The Trump administration may have declassified more than 160 military archive files related to UFOs (or UAPs – “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon”) three weeks ago, but releasing some grainy surveillance videos as a means of distraction is not what the public demand. Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there, and Fox Mulder’s quest remains prescient to this day.…
History repeats? This focus on defending Protestant turf from outsiders dates to Act I, Scene I of the Northern Ireland conflict. Those “Troubles” ignited in Belfast in August 1969 with loyalist attacks on Irish nationalist households, driving out thousands of Catholics to create exclusively Protestant areas — a sectarian map still starkly in evidence today. Near spots where Catholics were burned from their homes two generations ago, 40-foot-high walls dubbed “peace lines” demarcate working-class districts into, on one side of the fortifications, Catholic neighborhoods marked with the green, white and orange of the Irish tricolor and, on the other side,…
However, the initiative is likely to run into obstacles, including capitals being cautious about giving Brussels a say over procurement, U.S. resistance to losing key arms sales in Europe, and the need to develop and build equipment at speed to deter Russia. The European Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank, last week said the Commission must launch a short-term procurement drive focused on delivering these capabilities immediately where possible, paired with a medium-term industrial strategy to develop more complex technologies. “If development does not start now, Europe will still be dependent on American systems in the mid-2030s,” it stated…
Published on 10/06/2026 – 15:14 GMT+2 Kyiv used Ukrainian-made Flamingo missiles to strike a Russian military facility which supplies Moscow forces with components for drones and missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Wednesday. “We continue to apply Ukrainian long-range sanctions against Russian military facilities and the oil industry,” Zelenskyy said on X as he shared the video purporting to show a missile flying toward its target and plumes of smoke rising over Russian facilities. “In particular, last night Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingos struck a military plant in Cheboksary that supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles.” Cheboksary is…
By Alexis Caraco with AP Published on 10/06/2026 – 14:12 GMT+2 More than 1,200 emergency personnel, supported by international teams from Japan and Australia, were deployed across the disaster zone as search crews continued inspecting damaged buildings for possible survivors. Although only four people remained officially listed as missing, authorities said heavily damaged structures still required thorough examination. General Santos, a city of more than 700,000 people, was among the worst affected areas. Collapsing buildings and falling debris caused at least 13 deaths, while thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and public facilities suffered damage. Initial assessments indicated that more than 3,100 houses had…
European regulators maintain strict oversight to ensure carriers operating within EU airspace meet international safety standards, including those of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Those who fail to do so will find themselves banned from operating in European skies. As of 9 June, that list now contains 154 airlines. The latest update from the EU Air Safety List (ASL), the 48th of its kind, saw Air Express Algeria added. The decision was based on “serious safety concerns,” which found “shortcomings in the airlines’ compliance with international safety standards,” the European Commission said in a press release. Air Express is…
The versatile Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) will become, on 23 October 2026, the second Briton to receive the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, following in the footsteps of Doris Lessing in 2001. Published in Spain by the Anagrama publishing house, Barnes has worked as a lexicographer, columnist and literary and television critic before devoting himself entirely to literature. A Modern Languages graduate from the University of Oxford, he already holds France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the E.M. Forster Award of the American Academy. After rising to fame with his third novel, ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ (1986), for which…
Der AfD-Bundesparteitag in Erfurt rückt näher und mit ihm die Neuaufstellung der Spitze. Während Björn Höcke nicht selbst antritt, steigt sein Einfluss durch die Kandidatur seines Vertrauten Stephan Möller. Er ersetzt Stephan Brandner, der das Vertrauen im Thüringer Lager verloren hat. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler besprechen, wie Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla als Duo weitermachen wollen und blicken auch auf weitere Bewerber für den Bundesvorstand, wie z.B. Beatrix von Storch. Parallel dazu steht die europäische Bühne im Fokus: Die AfD ist Hauptakteurin in der Fraktion „Europa der souveränen Nationen“ (ESN), die aktuell mit einer möglichen Aberkennung ihres Parteienstatus…