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Published on 10/10/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2•Updated 12:38 Russian strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 15 people, including three children, and injured 16 others on Saturday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) said. “Medical staff are doing everything they can to help everyone,” Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor, wrote in a post on Telegram. Search and rescue operations are ongoing. Ukrainian national police said Russian forces had targeted residential areas of the city with five guided aerial bombs early on Saturday, with two of them striking blocks of flats. The DSNS reported that an aerial bomb had…
The head of India’s “cockroach movement” has been detained as hundreds of protesters descended on New Delhi on Saturday. The demonstration is the culmination of weeks of opposition mobilisation following allegations of misconduct during a nationwide voter-roll revision by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The movement is demanding the election commissioner’s resignation. Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the capital, the group said. It said in a statement they had been taken to “an undisclosed location”. “They’re being denied access to their lawyers and cut off…
The strike took place just one day after Ukrainian officials met with European and U.S. officials in Miami on Oct, 9 in a fresh diplomatic push to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump also announced he would temporarily lift sanctions on Russian diesel in a bid to bring soaring prices down. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the deal on Friday and accused Trump of using the peace talks as a “smokescreen” while pursuing a deal with the Kremlin. “This night was another confirmation that Russia perceives any easing of pressure as a signal…
Ireland, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, has proposed trimming the bloc’s next long-term budget by €141bn in a bid to win over the Germany-led ‘frugal’ countries. The so-called negotiating box will anchor the sensitive budget talks when EU leaders meet next week. It concentrates most of the reductions on the programmes for economic competitiveness and global cooperation. “The negotiating box acts to bridge the many differences between the member states. It brings us closer to resolving the so-called budgetary trilemma,” said Thomas Byrne, Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs, who leads on the file. Byrne said the…
“ENAA’s request is sufficiently well-founded to justify examination, but it is way too early to say that Ryanair is violating the rules,” he said. Regardless of the legal outcome, Viansson Ponte said that a “likely first step would be corrective measures, not immediate grounding.” Even if the court rules against the budget airline, Ryanair would have several options to address any compliance problems, the analyst said. “Ryanair could restrict non-EU [share] purchases, facilitate transfers of shares to EU investors, implement targeted share buybacks or restructure its licensed subsidiaries for example,” he said, adding that the process “should be manageable” for…
Published on 10/10/2026 – 12:57 GMT+2 Czechs are heading to the polls on Saturday in the second day of voting to elect local representatives as well as a third of the Senate’s members, in what is being seen as a popularity test for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Babiš, who previously served as PM from 2017 to 2021, returned to power after his ANO party sealed a strong win in parliamentary elections in October 2025. The ANO, which continues to hold a sizeable lead in opinion polls as the country’s most popular party, formed a nationalist coalition government with the Motorists…
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The law also includes provisions for minors over 15, stating that platforms cannot offer them services that could have “an addictive effect.” Turkey has often implemented tough restrictions on social media services, frequently banning individual accounts from media outlets or activists, and at times banning access to entire platforms. Ankara banned Instagram for a week in 2024 amid claims the Meta-owned platform censored users mourning Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Last week Turkey blocked a news website and its social media accounts over what a court deemed to be “LGBT propaganda,” sparking outrage from human rights and media freedom groups. A…
A series of strong earthquakes hit Panama on Friday, 9 October, causing damage to buildings and triggering evacuations. Residents rushed into the streets of Panama City, while tremors were also reported in Colombia. In Penonomé, part of a cathedral collapsed, including one of its spires, while footage showed extensive damage to a nearby hotel. Residents in Herrera province also reported cracks and damage to their homes. Tocumen International Airport briefly suspended operations before reopening, while the Panama Canal continued operating normally. According to the US Geological Survey, the first earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres, around 10 kilometres…
50.000 bedrohte Stellen bei Volkswagen stehen als Symbol für eine tiefe Wirtschaftskrise in Niedersachsen und der gesamten Republik. Wie lässt sich der industrielle Kern des Landes retten, bevor die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit endgültig wegbricht? Der niedersächsische SPD-Ministerpräsident Olaf Lies liefert in der Talk-Reihe „Let’s find common ground“ von POLITICO die Bestandsaufnahme einer Industrie am Scheideweg. Im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski in Hannover warnt Lies vor dem fatalen Druck der Berliner Koalition, in der Krise nur noch auf Umfragewerte zu schielen. Er erklärt, warum das europäische Lieferkettengesetz jetzt zwingend ausgesetzt werden muss und weshalb der ständige Streit um kurzfristige Erfolge das Vertrauen…