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Updated: 17/10/2024 – 16:30 GMT+2 The Larnaca district municipality of Dromolaxia-Meneou broke the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest kebab, cooking a 75-metre-long sieftalia during the Saint Lazarus Orchards festival.

“We will reach every terrorist — and eliminate him,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as authorities took the corpse for DNA testing. A senior Israeli official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject, said it is “looking like” Sinwar was killed, but they added that his death has “not yet been confirmed,” and the Israel Defense Forces and the country’s intelligence services are scrambling for corroborating evidence. Former head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet Ya’akov Peri told POLITICO: “The service called me. They are still checking the body,” he said. He added the big worry…

Zelenskyy was in Brussels on Thursday to present his Victory Plan to European Union leaders and reiterate calls for additional support. North Korean army officers are already on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory, Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on Thursday. The Ukrainian president also said the country’s intelligence services had found evidence suggesting that about 10,000 North Korean troops are being trained to join Russian forces in Ukraine.”Here we see the first step to the world war,” Zelenskyy added during a one-day summit of EU leaders in Brussels. The Kremlin has previously dismissed reports of North Korean involvement. Ukraine has previously warned of…

France’s richest family, the Arnaults of luxury empire LVMH, has announced the planned purchase of second-division soccer club Paris FC. The purchase will mark a major shake-up for soccer in France, putting vast wealth behind a potential challenger to the dominant Ligue 1 team of recent years, Qatar-funded Paris Saint-Germain.A statement from the Arnault family’s holding company, Agache, said it will become the club’s majority shareholder. Energy drink giant Red Bull will also come in on the venture with a minority stake.The statement didn’t give a monetary figure for the deal, which remains subject to completing legal and other paperwork.…

The long-standing presidential candidate is facing trial, along with 26 others, accused of embezzling millions of euros in European Parliament funds by using them to pay staffers to do domestic politics instead of their work as parliamentary assistants. Her party, as a legal entity, is also facing charges. During five hours of testimony earlier this week, Le Pen sought to turn the tables on the Parliament, describing it as an organ that co-opts its members, cutting them off from the citizens they are supposed to represent.  Or, as she put it, MEPs risk being absorbed by the Blob. “The European…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s NATO membership is a core component of his so-called “victory plan”, which he outlined to Ukrainian lawmakers on Wednesday. Ukraine will be a member of NATO “in the future,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said from the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.He declined to give more information about when Ukraine would join the military alliance, saying, “The question now is about the timeline.” Rutte said he would speak to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy later on Thursday to update him on the “considerable progress” following a high-level decision in July.At the time, the alliance’s 32 members…

A UK based think tank has called for a frequent flyer tax which could potentially raise billions of Euros. The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says the plans would apply to air passengers across Europe. The tax is designed to raise cash that could be ploughed into alternative and less polluting forms of travel from European destinations. If adopted, the Foundation estimates the new charge could increase aviation tax revenues by €64bn a year, with minimal impact on occasional flyers. Frequent flyers are the target of the taxThe NEF claims their plans will target those who take multiple flights a year,…

After the vote Meloni called the law a “rule of common sense, against the exploitation of the female body and children.” She said, “Human life is priceless and is not a commodity.” While Meloni has projected a moderate image abroad; on the domestic front critics say she is attempting to appease hard-right core supporters with policies driven by identity politics. Opponents to the law say it is part of a campaign to denigrate the reproductive rights of LGBTQ+ couples, who are not allowed to adopt or use in vitro fertilization in the country. Alessia Crocini, president of Rainbow Families, a…

The Council of Europe has declared that Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage is consistent with genocide. The declaration by Europe’s oldest intergovernmental organisation founded to uphold rule of law across the continent includes a demand on the Russian Federation to pay reparations to Ukraine. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Council of Europe “deplored” Russian attacks on cultural heritage sites in Ukraine since the start of the war in February 2022. “Noting that more than a thousand cultural sites had been damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the war, the Congress underlined that the targeting and looting…

Ahead of the summit, Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands organized a pre-meeting to discuss migration with the like-minded leaders of Austria, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malta and Slovakia, as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Macron, like several other EU leaders, did not attend the meeting. An Elysée adviser dismissed the importance of such informal side meetings, saying that “the day was totally full” and important discussions “take place in the plenary sessions.” However, such pre-summit side events in the past have been key in overcoming differences or setting directions for discussions. Macron and…