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Updated: 17/11/2025 – 12:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this November 17th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
“Unfortunately, the worst suspicions have been confirmed. An act of sabotage occurred on the Warsaw-Lublin line, near the village of Mika. An explosive device destroyed a section of the track. Emergency services and prosecutors are working at the site. Damage has also been found on the same line, closer to Lublin,” Tusk wrote on X. The Polish prime minister did not directly indicate who was responsible, but linked the incident to Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Blowing up the rail track on the Warsaw-Lublin route is an unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians. This…
Former Labour Minister Jeannette Jara of Chile’s ruling Communist Party secured a narrow lead against far-right candidate José Antonio Kast in Sunday’s first presidential election round. Jara received 27% of the vote, against Kast’s 24%, meaning a runoff will be held on 14 December. Jara, a former labour minister in incumbent President Gabriel Boric’s left-wing government, faces a challenge ahead of her as the first-round results showed strong support for right-leaning candidates. Nearly 70% of votes went to right-of-centre candidates, according to the official tally. Businessman and celebrity economist Franco Parisi performed better than most polls suggested by securing roughly…
The decision ends a period in which Germany, despite presenting the measure as a targeted halt on equipment “clearly usable in Gaza,” in practice approved no new arms licenses at all. A written reply from the economy ministry showed that between Aug. 8 and Sept. 12, Berlin issued zero export permits of any kind — a broader freeze than Merz’s announcement had implied. Although war-weapons exports have been paused, lifting the restrictions makes it likely Israel will again be able to import components such as Renk-produced engines for Merkava tanks, pending individual approval. Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,…
A rare 15th-century illuminated Bible, the Borso D’Este Bible, went on display in Rome on Thursday as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year events. The two-volume manuscript, known for its gold and lapis lazuli miniatures, is usually kept in a secure library in Modena and is rarely shown to the public. Transported under heavy security, it is now exhibited in a humidity-controlled case, while visitors can view high-resolution digital pages on touch screens. The display runs until January 16.
By KAREL JANICEK with AP Published on 17/11/2025 – 10:17 GMT+1 The eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany power plant overlook a construction site for two more reactors as Czechia pushes ahead with plans to expand its reliance on nuclear energy. Mobile drilling rigs have been extracting samples 140 metres below ground for a geological survey to make sure the site is suitable for a $19 billion (€16.4 billion) project as part of the expansion that should eventually at least double the country’s nuclear output and cement its place among Europe’s most nuclear-dependent nations. South Korea’s KHNP beat France’s EDF in a…
Published on 17/11/2025 – 9:38 GMT+1 You’ll soon be able to make your own AI content on Disney+ … and the overwhelming response is that the House of Mouse needs to remember that creative fields are being threatened by the misguided fervour to embrace artificial intelligence. Disney CEO Bob Iger sparked the online backlash in a recent earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2025, saying that the company was going to allow AI-generated content to appear on Disney+. Iger said the company was “in the midst of rolling out the biggest and the most significant changes – from a…
Following a briefing war and a budget U-turn last week, can the home secretary get the government’s agenda back on track? Sam and Anne discuss Shabana Mahmood’s plan to overhaul the asylum system — inspired by the Danes — and whether it will cut through with voters. Plus, they also consider the implications of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision not to raise income tax and where the ‘smorgasbord’ of other tax rises will come from.
Hundreds of tonnes of illegally dumped waste have formed a huge rubbish mountain in a field near Kidlington in Oxfordshire. Footage shows a pile at least 60 meters long and 10 meters high, with local authorities warning that removal costs may exceed their budget and that its proximity to a river poses an ecological threat. MP Calum Miller urged the government to intervene, while charity Friends of the Thames said the dump was created by an organised crime group. Environmental groups call the site “a massive ecological disaster.”
Earlier this month the human rights group Liberty coordinated a statement from almost 300 organizations — from homeless charities to veterans groups — calling for a “full-throated” defense of the ECHR and the Human Rights Act, and warning that the way the convention had been used as a political scapegoat over recent years had had “devastating real world consequences.” One of those signatories, Naomi Smith, chief executive of the Best for Britain campaign group, said the group plans to reconvene after Mahmood’s speech. Best for Britain was set up after Brexit and unsuccessfully campaigned for a second referendum. “We’re certainly…