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Published on 23/09/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2 Donald Trump may have left his audience at the UN cold and baffled with his insistence thatAI should be renamed “Super Intelligence”, but one man did earn applause with his speech on the controversial technology… Speaking at a career retrospective at a BAFTA event in London, Tom Cruise was asked about how AI could disrupt the medium of cinema. The Mission: Impossible star embarked on a passionate, six-minute monologue about the importance of humanity in the arts and how this summer’s blockbuster season showed that young audiences are still keen to go to the…
PAC-3 and PAC-2 GEM-T are interceptor missiles fired by Patriot air-defense batteries to destroy incoming threats. Patriot has become crucial since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as the system is used to protect cities and critical infrastructure from Russian ballistic missile attacks. The German proposal follows Pistorius’ trip to Washington last week, where he met U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and signed a statement of intent aimed at expanding defense-industrial cooperation between the two countries. Pistorius said Berlin had offered to help meet rising demand for American weapons by bringing more production to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. “The idea…
Fuel prices surged again over the $100 mark on Tuesday amid the ongoing global supply crisis sparked by strikes in the straits of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb. Negotiations between Iran and the US hit another deadlock in August, prompting hostilities to resume, with the latest wave of Iranian attacks slashing daily cargo passage in Hormuz to fewer than 20 vessels a day. On top of that, the attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are also disrupting trade around Bab-el-Mandeb, which used to be a crucial safety valve between Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti. With all these vital trade routes under attack,…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 13:57 GMT+2 Britain will go back to the drawing board on its agreement to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said on Wednesday. The move comes a day after US President Donald Trump attacked the deal during his first meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The two leaders met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. With Burnham sitting beside him, Trump said he expected the British leader to reconsider the “terrible deal”. Burnham nodded and replied “yep”. Burnham, who succeeded Keir Starmer in July,…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 15:07 GMT+2•Updated 15:15 The global economy is proving sturdier than feared. In its interim outlook published on Wednesday, the OECD raised its 2026 growth projection by 0.1 percentage point from June, concluding that the world economy “has weathered the energy supply shock triggered by the conflict in the Middle East better than expected.” That still marks a clear slowdown from the 3.4% growth recorded last year, and the OECD also trimmed its forecast for 2027 by 0.1 percentage point to 3%. The upgrades were broad. The US is now expected to grow 2.2% this year and…
Travel in the Middle East is evolving rapidly, with shifts in technology and consumer behaviour transforming both the industry and how people explore the region and beyond. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing how holidays are planned and sold, while ski trips, cruises and experiences are gaining popularity among Middle Eastern travellers, according to the new Group Chief Executive Officer of global aviation and travel services company dnata. Nabil Sultan Al Murr, who took over the role in June 2026, told Euronews Travel that these changing preferences are pushing companies to adapt more quickly, while technology is influencing everything from…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 11:25 GMT+2 She just can’t take a break… Following her headline-dominating wedding this year, Taylor Swift has announced she’s back with a new single, titled ‘Patient Zero’, which will drop on Friday. “I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single “Patient Zero” will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it’s available to pre-order now on my website for 24 hours,” Swift wrote on Instagram. Her Instagram bio now reads: “And, baby, that’s sh0w business f0r y0u,” which ties back to her ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ era. It isn’t confirmed whether…
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Published on 23/09/2026 – 14:12 GMT+2 Russia hammered Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly. Two people were killed and 23 were wounded in Kyiv, and palls of black smoke floated above the city following the latest in what have been daily Russian attacks that torment Ukrainian civilians. The drones set off fires and damaged buildings in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine overnight, authorities said. Ukrainian Railways chief Oleksandr Pertsovsky said Kyiv’s rail network was “under fire” and urged “maximum”…
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the United Nations General Assembly that the Gulf was going through “one of the most dangerous phases” in its recent history and that the Iran war was the result of cumulative years of postponing diplomatic solutions. In his speech at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sheikh Tamim called for a “regional system of collective security” based on national sovereignty, non-interference and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Such a system could have prevented the current Iran war and without it, he warned, vital facilities could be attacked and important…