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Visitors to the Estonian pavilion at this year’s Venice International Art Biennale may have been surprised to see the country’s representative Merike Estna in person, creating her latest works. During the past five months, right before people’s eyes, she has methodically made The House of Leaking Sky exhibition which consists of 22 large canvases. “The pavilion shows three monumental works. The long bench that is 26 metres. Then the floor [25,000 tiles] people walk on, which I think of kind of as a mind map for the project and then the painting behind me which I started with empty canvas,”…
Die AfD steckt in einem Konflikt über ihre einstige Kernforderung. Während Parteichefin Alice Weidel und der europapolitische Sprecher Peter Boehringer den EU-Austritt als Ultima Ratio ins Spiel bringen, wirbt der Chef der Parteijugend Pascal Hohm für den Erhalt des Euro. Warum dieser Vorstoß für Turbulenzen sorgt, analysieren Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler. In Sachsen-Anhalt greift die AfD derweil nach den Schalthebeln der Macht: Der Abgeordnete Tobias Rausch soll Landtagspräsident werden, während Ulrich Siegmund im Dezember als Ministerpräsident kandidiert. Ob das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht dabei zum heimlichen Mehrheitsbeschaffer wird, zeigt der Blick hinter die Kulissen des neuen Landtags. Für diplomatischen…
A migrant in a wheelchair, with serious injuries to his ankles, arms and torso, says he was pushed by soldiers from a height of more than six metres. When Amnesty International spoke to him in Ceuta, he complained that he had not even been given an X-ray and had only received an emergency bandage. His is one of the accounts included in an investigation that describes beatings, humiliations and summary expulsions from Cueta and which, according to the organisation, reveals abuses that could amount to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Blows with batons and boots, people restrained…
Five Indonesian prison officials, including the head of Cibinong Prison near Jakarta, have been suspended following the discovery of an alleged luxury compound for inmates. Indonesia’s Ombudsman found more than 10 residential units equipped with air conditioning, large-screen TVs, refrigerators and sofas, as well as a gym and a golf simulator under construction. Authorities are investigating how the facilities were used and whether inmates paid for preferential treatment.
Inflation continues to climb on the back of rising energy prices due to the disruption cause by the Iran war. In Italy, just like in Spain, price increases are now at the highs of the recent years. According to preliminary estimates released by Istat, in September the national consumer price index for the whole community (NIC) jumped by +0.7% month-on-month, with a year-on-year acceleration that pushes the annual rate to +4.2% (from +3.3% in August). To find a higher level of inflation we have to go back three years, to September 2023, when the annual change reached 5.3%. The “invisible…
By Dianne Apen-Sadler Published on 24/06/2026 – 12:38 GMT+2•Updated 30/09/2026 – 12:55 GMT+2 Etihad Rail has officially launched its route between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, marking the first time the two emirates have been connected by passenger train. Travellers can now go between the UAE capital and the major tourist hub in just over an hour. Tickets are priced at AED39 (€9.35) in comfort class, with premium seats coming in at AED109 (€26.13). Etihad Rail first launched in late June, with trains going from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah, an emirate on the country’s east coast. The rail network will then be…
“We hope that the Committee of Independent Eminent Persons will exercise the legally required neutrality, even though people with clear political affiliations … have been appointed,” said Alexander Sell, vice president of the Europe of Sovereign Nations, and the president of its foundation. The ESN is the European home of the Alternative for Germany party. “In a true democracy, party representatives should not be involved in decisions regarding the funding of their political rivals,” Sell said. In July, the European Parliament green-lighted the process to deregister and defund ESN after the authority alleged breaches of EU values, including anti-immigration, antisemitic…
Published on 30/09/2026 – 14:17 GMT+2 The Bulgarian parliament passed a law on Wednesday aiming to better protect journalists, activists and others from abusive lawsuits designed to censor or intimidate critics. In doing so, Bulgaria has gone beyond the minimum European Union requirement in a bid to protect the media in a country where the freedom of the press has come under sustained pressure. Known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), the use of legal action is intended to silence or financially bankrupt reporters, whistleblowers and rights groups, rather than win the case outright. Most SLAPPs are for defamation…
An adult male green sea turtle named Jurassic returned to the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday after months of treatment at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Florida. Found stranded and lethargic last month, he had been suffering from abnormal buoyancy linked to gas in his gastrointestinal tract. After recovering, Jurassic was carried to the beach by staff and volunteers and released into the ocean, while dozens of spectators watched and cheered. A satellite tracker will allow researchers to follow his movements in the wild.
By Una Hajdari with AFP Published on 30/09/2026 – 13:51 GMT+2 The EU put forward plans for a new bloc-wide communication system on Wednesday that would allow police, firefighters and other national emergency services to better coordinate during cross-border crises. Currently, first responders across the 27-country European Union mostly rely on radio to communicate, but secure channels normally stop working at national borders, hampering international operations, Brussels says. “When crisis strikes, our first responders must be able to communicate instantly across agencies, across borders, across Europe,” said the EU’s commissioner for internal affairs Magnus Brunner. The proposed “EU Critical Communication System” would see…