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Spain has hit another tourism milestone this year. The country received 11.3 million international visitors in August, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). It marks a 2.9 per cent increase on the same month in 2024 and follows a record-breaking July with 11 million foreign arrivals, a year-on-year rise of 1.6 per cent. Together, the two months saw 22.3 million tourists flock to Spain, far outstripping 2024’s figure of 21.8 million for the same period. The surging statistics come despite another summer of fierce anti-tourist protests by embattled residents – and some long-overdue moves by authorities to mitigate overtourism. …
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By Mohamed Elashi Published on 02/10/2025 – 16:01 GMT+2 United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order guaranteeing the security and territorial integrity of Qatar against external aggression, after Israeli air strikes on Doha on 9 September which targeted senior Hamas leadership. The unprecedented Israeli military operation resulted in the deaths of five lower-ranking Hamas members, along with a Qatari security staffer. The attack drew widespread international condemnation and on 29 September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an official apology to Qatar for the killing of one of its citizens. In a joint call with Trump at the…
BRUXELLES — Si la carrière des responsables politiques dépend de leur capacité à communiquer clairement avec les masses, la présidente de la Commission européenne semble avoir un problème. Ceux qui comptent sur les communicants d’Ursula von der Leyen pour obtenir des informations ― journalistes, lobbyistes et même d’autres membres du personnel de la Commission ― se plaignent qu’il n’a jamais été aussi difficile de découvrir la vérité. Depuis le début du second mandat de l’Allemande en décembre, son équipe a été critiquée pour ne pas avoir été totalement ouverte ou pour avoir donné des informations confuses, contradictoires ou trompeuses, selon…
Published on 02/10/2025 – 14:03 GMT+2 The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has seen his wealth pass a new milestone: he is officially halfway to becoming the first-ever trillionaire. Shares in Tesla, Musk’s EV company, gained nearly 4% as of 15.30 ET, which is 21.30 in Central Europe. That added an estimated $9.3 billion (€7.9bn) to his fortune, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires tracker. The stock movement pushed Musk’s wealth just above $500bn (€425.25bn) for a short period, although the moment was short-lived. Musk ended Wednesday worth an estimated $499.1bn. The tech billionaire regularly makes headlines because of his staggering…
Very few, however, see the inevitable outcomes of this playbook: a deteriorating economy and the crumbling of the basic services that sustain the public’s faith in government. So, when does the tide turn? Historian Anne Applebaum is among the few who clearly draw this link, noting that MAGA and other Trumpian imitators are in love with Orbán’s illiberal “playbook” largely because it coopts the machinery of democracy rather than directly assaulting it. But what they fail to notice are the long-term consequences of corruption, poverty, diminished living standards — and, crucially, a soured public. Today, the extent of dissatisfaction with Orbán…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched a new scathing attack against the majority of EU leaders over the plans to counter Russian incursions into member states’ airspaces, as discussed at the EU summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday. On his arrival at the European Political Community gathering in Copenhagen on Thursday, Orbán announced that “the EU has decided to go to war” and that at Wednesday’s informal EU summit, they presented their war strategy on how to defeat the Russians, which he labelled as “horrifying”. He referred to the EU leaders’ decision to give “broad support” to proposals to ramp up…
Published on 02/10/2025 – 12:36 GMT+2 •Updated 13:03 Turkish Airlines is planning to start flights to the Armenian capital Yerevan amid a thaw in relations between the neighbours after decades of tension. In a filing on Tuesday, the airline expressed its desire to launch the route as long as there was enough demand for the service. The announcement from Turkey’s flag carrier followed a meeting between the special envoys of both countries in Armenia on 12 September. Turkey’s special envoy for normalisation with Armenia, Serdar Kılıç, arrived in the country’s eastern neighbour via the land border, which, more than three…
“I am sorry for that,” Macron joked. Trump has repeatedly confused Armenia and Albania when talking about his efforts to resolve the long-standing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “I solved wars that was unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania, it was going on for many, many years, I had the prime ministers and presidents in my office,” he said during an appearance on Fox News last month. And during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said, “We settled Aber-baijan and Albania,” butchering the name of one South Caucasus country and confusing the other one entirely. To be…
By Euronews Published on 02/10/2025 – 12:54 GMT+2 Police in Morocco have shot two people dead amid youth-led nationwide protests against the state of public services. The deaths occurred in the small town of Leqliaa, hundreds of miles south of the capital Rabat, after police opened fire on demonstrators, allegedly in self-defence. Morocco’s state news agency, MAP, cited local authorities as saying police shot two “troublemakers” in an act of self-defence. It claimed they had been attempting to seize police weapons, though no eyewitnesses could corroborate the report. The deaths were the first since the so-called “Gen Z” protests broke out…