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Pavel held meetings on Sunday with several party leaders who secured seats in the Czech parliament’s lower house in this weekend’s elections, which were dominated by Babiš and his right-wing ANO party. Pavel will meet with the rest of the party leaders on Monday. “It’s still too early to discuss a mandate to form a government,” Pavel said. “It will only make sense to discuss this once there’s a clearer outline of a government that could realistically secure the support of the Chamber of Deputies. And we’re not there yet,” he said, adding that he assumes the inaugural session of…
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Anti-government protesters stormed the presidential palace on Saturday during a massive pro-democracy demonstration, prompting police to reportedly fired tear gas and water cannons. The country has suffered from major political unrest since the 2024 national elections when the Georgian Dream party was accused of tampering with the votes, fueling a bitter battle between the government and opposition parties. The ruling party halted EU accession talks shortly after the 2024 elections, a move that triggered a wave of anti-government protests that have been met with mass arrests. Kobakhidze on Sunday accused the EU ambassador to Georgia of interfering in national politics…
“Don’t feed the crocodile because it will come after you after it devours Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to European leaders after emphasising “the onus is on Hamas” to accept the US-brokered deal and return the hostages it still holds, in an exclusive Euronews interview on Sunday. The Israeli premier spoke to Euronews just days before the two-year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people and took around 250 hostage. Hamas currently holds 48 hostages, around 20 of whom are believed to be still alive. Under the Washington-led plan, which…
President Donald Trump on Saturday authorised the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal officers and property in Chicago, marking another escalation of federal intervention in American cities. “This morning the Trump administration gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops or we will do it,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said in a statement. “To demand that the governor send troops into our territory against our will is absolutely outrageous and unpatriotic.” Attorney General Pam Bondi also issued a memo directing Justice Department agencies, including the FBI, to assist in protecting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities,…
Members of the far-right Patriots for Europe group are celebrating the victory of populist right-winger Andrej Babiš and his ANO party in the Czech parliamentary elections. ANO on Saturday won the elections in Czechia with more than 34 percent of the vote, well ahead of the current center-right governing coalition Spolu (Together), which had 23 percent. Babiš is the hot candidate to become prime minister after ANO’s strong showing.The agricultural tycoon co-founded the Patriots group, along with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Austria’s Herbert Kickl, in the summer of 2024. Soon joined by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the Patriots surged…
The British Conservative Party plans to create a new force to detain and deport people who entered the U.K. through irregular channels, modeling the agency on the U.S.’s immigration enforcement team ICE. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Britain “must tackle the scourge of illegal immigration into Britain and secure our borders,” according to ITV. “That is why the Conservatives are setting out a serious and comprehensive new plan to end this crisis,” she said. The “Removals Force” — a revamp of the existing immigration enforcement unit that sits within the U.K.’s interior ministry — would work closely with the police…
The mayor of Lviv said public transport routes were not operating due to a “massive enemy attack,” which had also caused a partial electricity outage in the region. “Russia targeted residential areas with drones and aerial bombs. Across all affected areas, residential buildings and critical infrastructure were damaged,” Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X. It was just the latest instance of Poland scrambling fighter planes to protect its airspace amid Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine. In early September, Poland shot down Russian drones that forced the closure of the Warsaw airport as Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to be…
By Euronews Published on 05/10/2025 – 11:44 GMT+2 At least five people have been killed after Russia launched a “combined” missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad were targeted with cruise missiles, “shahed” drones and Kinzhal missiles. Moscow “once again” targeted civilian infrastructure, Zelenskyy said, with more than 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones. He called for “more protection and faster implementation of all defence agreements.” An entire family of four, including a teenage girl, were killed in the western…
Hamas said it was ready to release all the hostages following U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for a “Gaza peace plan” on Friday, an announcement that many European leaders welcomed. Despite Trump calling on Israel to stop bombing the coastal Palestinian enclave on Friday, Israel’s offensive on Gaza continued on Saturday, with dozens of people killed. Yemen’s Houthi rebel group also launched a missile at Israel on Saturday, which Israel intercepted, Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli delegation will include Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, while Hamas could send senior officials Ghazi Hamad, Osama Hamdan and Muhamed Darwish, according to local media…