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The US President cancelled a visit last week because of Hurricane Milton striking the US. US President Joe Biden is set to visit Germany on Friday according to German government sources. Spiegel magazine reported that preparations for the meetings are already well underway.Biden had postponed the trip due on 8 October and remained in Washington, DC to monitor Hurricane Milton’s impact on Florida.Spiegel reports that meetings with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier are on the agenda for next Friday. Biden had been expected to arrive in Berlin on 10 October evening for the meeting and had been scheduled…

This article was originally published in Spanish Thousands rally in the Spanish capital demanding that “housing is a right, not a business”. Thousands marched through the streets of Madrid on Sunday to demand affordable housing and reasonable rents. The protest was called by around 40 neighbourhood and tenant associations. The housing crisis in Madrid and other Spanish cities was the focus of the march.The march started at Atocha and went to the Paseo del Prado where the day before the Armed Forces had paraded for National Day. The Sindicato de Inquilinas and various organisations led the march and carried banners with…

Less than two years after the NFT market crashed, Donald Trump is still hawking his bizarre trading cards. Aside from entertaining his rabid fans, what is left of the NFT market? Last month, ex-US president Donald Trump announced he was selling a new collection of his digital trading cards. The cards, announced in typical Trump style on his Truth Social platform, cost $99 (€90) each and if you buy 15 or more, you will receive an actual physical card with a piece of the suit he wore to his debate with Joe Biden. It’s not the first time Trump has…

All Ukrainian men aged 25-60 are eligible for conscription and men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the country. Ukrainian military recruitment officers have raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in the capital Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, local media and witnesses have said.Officers descended on the Palace of Sports venue after a concert by a Ukrainian rock band and video footage aired by local media appears to show officers stationed outside the doors of the concert hall intercepting men as they exit.In the footage, officers appear to be forcibly…

Regional authorities said the cause of the explosion in Grozny is unknown but that a criminal investigation has been opened. At least four people have been killed in an explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, officials have said.The explosion of a gas tank triggered a fire at the service station in the regional capital, Grozny, said Russia’s Emergencies Ministry.The ministry said that two children were among the dead.Local media said seven fire engines and 35 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze which has since been extinguished.Grozny is about 1,500 kilometres south of the capital…

On this second day of competition at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2024, four more categories were in action, with UAE’s Makhmadbek MAKHMADBEKOV taking home his second gold medal. Following a successful first day for the hosts of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, more action was promised on day 2 with several UAE fighters ready to claim glory and reach the podium inside the Mubadala Arena.At -63 kg, Manon DEKETER took on Iva OBERAN, Ura nage for a waza-ari close to the end of the contest secured the title for the french fighter.IJF Guest, Carlo LAZZARI awarded her the…

Civilians in Ukraine’s Sumy region have also been evacuated due to increased Russian attacks. Meanwhile, Moscow says a fire at an oil depot in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian east was caused by an attack from Ukraine’s military. Three civilians were injured in a Russian airstrike in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said on Saturday.According to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, the attack was carried out using a guided aerial missile, targeting a residential area and local infrastructure.The State Emergency Service of Ukraine shared a video showing police and rescue teams working on the site.Ukrainian authorities continued to evacuate residents from frontline…

Moscow and Tehran signed a $1.7 billion deal for Iran to export drones to Russia after Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, and the U.S. also believes it has transferred short-range ballistic missiles. Russia’s Vladimir Putin met Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian in person at a time concerns mount over Tehran’s steady supply of weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine as well as over the escalating conflicts in the Middle East. Putin and Pezeshkian discussed the attacks between Israel and Iran and its militant allies on the sidelines of an international forum in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, local…

OPTICS ‘More necessary than the sun’ Coal brought prosperity — and sickness — to Bosnia. A phrase uttered by a worker in the 1990s came to define the struggles of a region dealing with the pollution caused by one of its main industries. Text and photos by MATTEO TREVISANin Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina A boy suffering from chronic respiratory problems plays at home, a few dozen meters from the the steel plant in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His father says they can never drink coffee in the garden because it fills up with black dust within minutes — and they…

ROME — Italy’s contentious migrant detention centers in Albania are now ready and operational, the Italian ambassador to Tirana said Friday, after months of delays and logistical setbacks. Under the 2023 deal, Tirana agreed that Italy could send up to 36,000 male migrants who have been stopped in international waters each year to two asylum-processing centers in northern Albania. Rights groups and opposition politicians have called the deal “dehumanizing” and “illegal,” warning that diverting migrants to an extra-territorial location, run by private contractors, will obscure them from scrutiny, weakening oversight of conditions and increasing the violations of basic rights. Federica…