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Saudi Arabia hit back with a series of strikes on Tuesday after the Iran-backed Houthis targeted oil facilities and other sites across the border in their heaviest attack in years. The rapid exchange of fire follows the unravelling of a four-year truce in July, months into the war between the United States and Iran. Saudi strikes hit Taiz province, where deadly fighting has raged for days, and Marib province, the Houthis’ Almasirah TV station said. There was no immediate comment from Riyadh. Overnight, Houthi attacks caused “temporary” shutdowns at oil sites and left 73 injured, authorities said. Saudi officials had…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 20:43 GMT+2 Israeli TV show Fauda returned to Netflix on Tuesday with its fifth season. In its early seasons, the series sought to portray human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The show’s newest iteration, created by Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, takes place two years after the 7 October 2023 attacks by militant group Hamas on southern Israel. It follows the story of Doron Kavillio, a commander of an undercover Israeli military unit hunting down a Hamas operative he thought he had killed. Doron also heads to France’s Marseille after discovering that an…
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Sweden heads to the polls on Sunday in a tight general election that could see the left-wing opposition oust the government after a campaign dominated by concerns over healthcare and the welfare state amid fears over Europe’s security. Opinion polls have pointed to a victory for the centre-left opposition headed by the Social Democrats. But Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-right coalition and its parliamentary ally, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, have narrowed the gap in the final weeks of campaigning and the election could go down to the wire, experts say. “There’s still a bit of suspense. But all the polls…
Three Sumatran tiger cubs have undergone their first health checks at Attica Zoological Park near Athens, receiving vaccinations and microchips for identification. Born in July, the two-month-old cubs were briefly separated from their mother for the examination. Veterinary staff checked the cubs’ health, weighed them and gave each a vaccine before returning them to their enclosure. The procedure was carried out quickly to limit stress, as the young tigers are not accustomed to being handled by people. Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with only an estimated 400 to 500 believed to remain in the wild. Zoos are helping maintain a…
“But we remember all too well where a rearmed Germany in the hands of a far-right, pro-Russian party can lead — and that is exactly what the AfD represents,” he added. For Warsaw, the prospect of a far-right party gaining power in a heavily militarized Germany hits a deep historical nerve. Parts of present-day Poland were occupied by Imperial Germany during World War I, and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, triggering World War II in Europe and subjecting the country to a brutal occupation. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk struck a similarly stark note after the Saxony-Anhalt vote, saying…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 18:36 GMT+2•Updated 18:55 Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has accused Morocco of a “policy of harassment” towards the city and urged the EU to take a tougher stance and fund border security after some 80,000 migrants entered the exclave on 30 July, distancing himself from Spain’s cooperative approach to Rabat. Vivas met three EU commissioners and several lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday, urging help to return irregular migrants and restore normality in the exclave, where thousands of third-country nationals, including unaccompanied minors, remain. “Ceuta is on the brink of collapse,” he said. The Ceuta leader broke…
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his coalition government’s response to the historic victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Saxony-Anhalt state election will be pivotal in deciding the future of the federal government, political scientist Nicolas Spohn told Euronews. Final results following last Sunday’s election in the eastern German state showed AfD received 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people. Merz’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), slumped to 17.2%. “First of all, it really is a historic victory for the AfD, and it is…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 10:39 GMT+2 Europe’s answer to OpenAI has just become considerably better funded. The Paris-based company Mistral AI announced its Series D on Tuesday, three years after being seeded, with the memory chip giant Samsung leading alongside the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, and existing investor PSG Equity. The step up is steep. Mistral was valued at €11.7 billion in 2025 after a €1.7 billion Series C led by Dutch chipmaker ASML, meaning the company has almost doubled its valuation in a year. Much of the money is going into concrete rather than code. CEO…
AI researchers discovered last week that a swarm of OpenAI agents had bypassed safety parameters to take over German wiki forum DseWiki to collaborate. The agents had been allowed to visit the 25-year-old German programming website with read-only access but managed to exploit a web request to hijack the site, turning it into a bulletin board. The rogue agents made more than 18,000 posts sharing answers, research on their environment and how to bypass sandbox restrictions and hide themselves from human detection, according to the research group Nightingale Collective. The incident took place sometime between May and June this year,…