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Published on 07/10/2026 – 16:04 GMT+2 Iran’s army spokesman said on Wednesday that the armed forces were prepared to carry out pre-emptive strikes in the war against the US, as senior IRGC figures claimed tighter control over the Strait of Hormuz and Washington questioned how much authority Iran’s civilian leadership actually holds. “Should circumstances require it, we will conduct pre-emptive operations down the line in order to prevent the enemy from committing any act of aggression or intrusion,” spokesman for Iran’s regular army Brigadier General Mohammad Akrami-Nia told the state-run IRNA news agency. IRGC officials separately said Hormuz was firmly…
For the price of one square metre of housing in Madrid, you can buy almost two in central Mexico City and nearly three in Buenos Aires, Bogotá or São Paulo. But higher property prices do not necessarily mean a heavier burden on local wages. The key question is how much of their income locals need to spend to afford a home. If you compare rents with wages, the gap shrinks and in some cases even flips. In the Madrid region, renting an 80-square-metre flat at December 2025 asking prices would have absorbed 71% of the average gross salary advertised on…
A century after leaving for New York on a cargo ship, Willem De Kooning joins Dutch masters such as Van Gogh and Rembrandt at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for the biggest European exhibition of his work in more than 40 years. De Kooning was part of a group of New York artists that pioneered a style known as “Abstract Expressionism” in the 1930s and 1940s, eventually becoming an iconic figure in the world of modern art. Featuring more than 120 works, the exhibition “Willem de Kooning at work” opens on 9 October and runs until 17 January 2027.
Die Regierungsbildungen in Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern könnten entscheidenden Einfluss auf eine Vorstufe eines AfD-Verbotsverfahrens nehmen. Im Hintergrund formiert sich ein Bundesrats-Antrag für eine länderübergreifende Arbeitsgruppe die Beweise für ein mögliches Verfahren sammeln soll. Ein politisches Beben erschüttert derweil den Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt. Bei der Wahl zum Landtagspräsidenten erhielt der AfD-Kandidat Tobias Rausch wohl Stimmen aus der tief gespaltenen CDU-Fraktion. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler analysieren, warum dieser Tabubruch zum Vorboten für die Ministerpräsidentenwahl im Dezember werden könnte. Außerdem blickt die Folge hinter die verschlossenen Türen der Deutschen Parlamentarischen Gesellschaft. Dutzende Aufnahmeanträge von AfD-Abgeordneten liegen derzeit auf Eis – auch…
Published on 07/10/2026 – 14:46 GMT+2 France has suspended police use of stun grenades at high school student protests, after a 15-year-old lost a hand and allegations of police brutality mounted. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced the move on RTL radio early on Wednesday. The teenager was injured on Monday after police fired a stun grenade. “I am suspending their use in the high school student protests until the facts of the incident have been clarified,” Nunez said. He stressed that the suspension applied only to those protests and would last just long enough to establish what happened. Police have…
A one-minute siren sounded in Tel Aviv on Wednesday as Israelis marked three years since the October 7, 2023 attacks. People gathered along the beach holding photographs of those killed, while an art installation commemorating victims and hostages was displayed nearby with the word “Failure” written in large letters. The October 7 attacks killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 others taken hostage, according to Israeli figures. The anniversary has also renewed calls from some Israelis for an independent inquiry into the events.
Switzerland’s UBS stands alone for Europe in the top ten of an annual league table measuring how far major banks have gone in putting AI to work, as North American lenders led by JPMorgan Chase pull further ahead. The ranking, published on Tuesday by Evident, a firm that tracks AI adoption in financial services, rates 50 large lenders in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific using only public data. Banks are deploying the technology to catch fraud, write software, vet loans and help advisers serve clients, and the 50 lenders have made public over 1,100 distinct uses of AI since 2021.…
Pressure is growing worldwide to rein in the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, and the world’s three top AI heavyweights are answering in three very different ways. The worries are much the same everywhere, starting from AI-powered cyberattacks, threats to national security and chatbots linked to children’s suicides. The responses, it seems, are significantly different. The EU has bet on binding rules, though it has already loosened some of them under pressure from industry. The US relies on voluntary promises and executive orders meant to keep its AI boom going. China is building its own rulebook under tight state control…
Winter in Europe means time for outdoor adventures – often on the slopes. Few destinations offer quite the same combination of skiing, snowboarding, chilly winter hikes and other activities like in the continent’s Alpine resorts. In central Switzerland, between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, Interlaken sits in the heart of the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps. Despite the lower temperatures, the year-round resort surprisingly offers accessible hikes and kayak routes during the colder season. While around 370 kilometres to the east, Innsbruck makes an equally strong claim for holidaymakers’ attention. The capital of Austria’s Tyrol state, it’s also…
A pilot project to send migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU to designated ‘return’ countries will be in place by early next year, Greece’s migration minister told POLITICO. Sep 29 4 mins read