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“Today, we move towards associate membership for Canada,” Carney said, describing it as “the deepest possible partnership short of accession.” The two sides have set a June 2027 deadline to determine the terms and boundaries of their intensifying relationship — an alliance that comes with a payment schedule. Carney danced around a question pressing him on how much associate membership will cost the Canadian public. “We don’t view this as paying, personally,” Carney said, stressing the alliance as a “positive” project. Von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa, standing either side of Carney, presented the experiment as a…

Published on 30 October 2026 – 16:08 GMT+1•Updated 16:13 “We have been killed,” reads a statement from the editorial team behind the Russian independent news outlet Novaya Gazeta, as it announced on Friday that it would be ceasing operations. “On November 9th, we will turn off the lights in the home where we have lived for 30 years, shut down our servers, and leave,” the paper said. “The newspaper no longer exists. The Russian authorities and the Russian security services have forced our editorial team to cease its operations.” The paper is one of the few Russian outlets that has…

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A setback. France’s gross domestic product fell by 0.1 % in the third quarter, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) announced on Friday, after stagnating in the second quarter and a 0.2 % decline in the first. Another blow for the government, coming as France’s borrowing rates climbed above 5 % on financial markets last week and the social climate remains explosive, on the eve of a new nationwide day of mobilisation against the high cost of living and in support of young people’s demands. This drop in activity effectively places the eurozone’s second-largest economy on the…

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Published on 30 October 2026 – 18:03 GMT+1 The United States cancelled a planned group photo of foreign ministers from the world’s 20 largest economies (G20) on Friday after several European diplomats objected to being photographed alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and threatened to walk out. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to cancel the photo to avoid further controversy, according to two US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Opening the talks, Rubio looked ahead, saying he hoped for “a productive meeting.” “We are in a critical moment —…

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Turkic states set out plans to deepen cooperation on transport, energy and trade at a summit in Ankara as the ongoing crisis in the Middle East continues raising new opportunities for the Turkic states. In a surprise move during the summit, Kazakhastan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev suggested inviting Russia to participate in the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) through its OTS Plus format or as an observer, “in order to enhance the standing and credibility of our Organisation.” The proposal was made at the organisation’s 13th summit hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which concluded with the adoption of the…

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has visited Kazakhstan for the first time, saying the Central Asian country could emerge as a major AI computing hub for Europe. Huang made the remarks during a fireside chat with Zhaslan Madiyev, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, at the Alem.ai International Artificial Intelligence Centre in Astana. During the discussion, Madiyev said Kazakhstan plans to nearly double its installed power capacity to more than 40 gigawatts by 2035 as the country expands the infrastructure needed to support its growing AI sector. One of its flagship projects is…

“If we don’t have the budget adjustment we put in the budget, we will hit the wall,” Lescure said. But France’s fragmented parliament failed to pass budgets before the new year in both 2024 and 2025, and the spring 2027 presidential election may further complicate efforts to seek compromise this time around. That could force Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to push through the budget using a constitutional backdoor that bypasses a parliamentary vote, but it would expose the minority government to potential motions of no confidence. Lescure insisted that adopting a budget for next year was key to “reassure markets”…