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Published on 21/09/2026 – 17:13 GMT+2 Calin Georgescu has been detained in Romania as prosecutors said they were investigating the former Romanian presidential candidate for fraud. Georgescu, a pro-Russian politician who first made headlines during Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was detained by police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on Monday. He was taken in for questioning over alleged fraud and forming an organised criminal group. Prosecutors accused Georgescu and two others of defrauding a Romanian businessman by making him believe he could get access to up to €15 million worth of foreign bank financing in…

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Trump ended his post with a demand to end the conflict in Ukraine. “This ridiculous and never-ending war with Ukraine must be ended,” he said. “The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!” Responding to Trump’s message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that his country was ready to stop its attacks on Russia if the Kremlin did the same for Ukraine. “Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part,” he wrote,…

The European Union and Canada last week unveiled plans for an ambitious new partnership that could eventually give Canada a form of associate EU membership. Yet their existing landmark agreement remains unfinished business. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed in 2016 and has applied provisionally since 2017, removing almost all tariffs and helping drive a sharp increase in transatlantic trade. But ten EU countries – Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia – have still not ratified it. The contrast was underlined last week when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited…

Published on 21/09/2026 – 19:45 GMT+2 Ground stops have been ordered at six airports in the northeastern United States on Monday due to an “equipment outage,” causing disruption to thousands of flyers. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ground stops are in place at Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International, John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia, Teterboro, and Westchester County airports. Data from flight-tracking site Flightradar24 shows “major problems” at both Newark and Philadelphia, with average flight delays of around 170 minutes and 60 minutes, respectively. The site reported there had been 92 cancellations and close to 70 diversions at Newark as…

Ce samedi, le Rassemblement national a publié un long communiqué pour dénoncer les tentatives d’ingérence et de guerre hybride de Moscou. Une déclaration qui contraste avec la réaction de Jordan Bardella à la sortie de l’Elysée, où Emmanuel Macron avait convié, la veille, les chefs de parti pour évoquer les tensions internationales. Le patron du RN avait alors dénoncé l’absence de propositions sur le carburant, sans s’étendre sur la guerre en Ukraine. Pourquoi une telle correction de tir ? Le lien à la Russie reste-t-il le talon d’Achille d’une formation qui peine à définir une ligne claire, au risque d’alimenter…

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia posed “no threat” to France or any other European country, local media reported. His comments came after the far-right National Rally party’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella issued a warning to Moscow on the weekend. “We will never tolerate a foreign power, specifically Russia, attempting to dictate our country’s policies through intimidation, threats, destabilisation, or psychological pressure, either directly or indirectly,” the pair said in a joint statement. In response, Peskov told reporters that Russia was “not threatening France or any other country in Europe,” adding that “President Putin has…

Published on 21/09/2026 – 18:14 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said Washington was working on a “massive” deal to buy fertilizer from Belarus, despite Minsk’s repression of dissidents and support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be “substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada,” the US neighbour against which he has stepped up a trade war. Potash is a potassium-rich salt mined mainly for fertilizer, helping crops grow and improving yields. Canada supplies most of the potash used by American farmers. Belarus is one of…

Neither the U.S. nor China are part of the new declaration. But Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the main organizers of the document, told POLITICO that he hopes to create “momentum” and get more actors on board: “I think it will be in the interest of both China and the United States to have some kind of guardrails. And our message here is that we need human intervention, so humans need to be in charge,” he said in an interview. Referring to the recent cyberattack by rogue AI agents on the Hugging Face platform, the declaration urges to “address…

The European Union is writing the sustainability rulebook for AI’s power-hungry future, but tech giants like Microsoft are already weighing in on how the bloc’s new rules should work. EU data centres with more than 500 kW of installed capacity that report under the bloc’s energy efficiency rules will receive an electronic sustainability label as of 21 September, according to new rules unveiled by the European Commission on Monday. “The aim of the rating scheme is to increase transparency about the energy use of data centres and to become a resource that will inform better policymaking and procurement of more…