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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across 40 cities in Spain to demand solutions to what they have called the country’s worsening housing crisis. Organisers of the demonstrations— a collection of tenants’ rights, neighbourhood movements and other social rights groups — accuse the government of turning housing “into a business model.””Fear has changed sides: we are not going to demand more changes; we are organised and we have a plan against rentierism”, said one of the groups leading the protests.The mass protests mark a milestone as they are the first to be held simultaneously in many locations, a decade…

Thomas Müller will end his “incredible journey” with Bayern Munich this summer after 25 years at his boyhood club but says he wasn’t ready to leave.The 35-year-old midfielder, whose contract is set to expire after the season, made the announcement Saturday in a joint statement with Bayern.On Instagram, Müller, 35, wrote that he respected Bayern’s decision not to offer him a new contract for next season “even if this did not reflect my personal wishes.”Müller has helped Bayern win a record 12 Bundesliga titles and two Champions League crowns — 33 trophies in total, the team said. But his playing…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that these strikes “cannot be accidental,” in a post on X. “The Russians know exactly what they’re hitting,” he said. “It is critically important not to leave this Russian strike on civilians, on the city — every such strike — without a response from the world,” the president said in another post.  Several European leaders condemned the attack. “Russia continues to destroy Ukraine, no interest in peace,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said in a post on X. She called the images from Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown, “tragic and inhumane.” Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that “this is why we need…

The tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday came into effect at 6am CET on Saturday.The new 10% customs duties now apply to a wide range of goods imported into the United States. However, the country-specific tariffs introduced by the Trump administration will only come into force on 9 April.Trump’s trade war is already sending shockwaves through global markets, further intensified by China’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs of 34% on American imports. On Friday, major stock exchanges closed in the red. Milan’s FTSE MIB was the worst hit, falling by 6.53% by the close of trading. Losses were also…

The scandal erupted in December, when it emerged that Yang, had enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles. Andrew, who is the Duke of York, already was a figure of disgrace in Britain over his close ties to the late American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. That made Yang the prince’s “only light at the end of the tunnel,” according to Hampshire’s testimony, the BBC reported.  Yang eventually became a close adviser on Andrew’s business ventures, authorized to operate on the prince’s behalf as he sought Chinese investors for an initiative called the Eurasia Fund. Moreover, documents show details of Andrew’s “communication…

At the same time, according to Lipavský, buying more American fossil gas — which Trump has said is key to addressing the trade imbalance — is “a good proposal, and I support it.” The European Commission has held a series of talks with U.S. counterparts, and despite a failure to agree a deal so far, “we should continue with that,” he added. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič and other top officials visited Washington in recent weeks to try to secure an agreement that would spare it inclusion in Trump’s widely criticized tariff list, unveiled Wednesday. Brussels has even proposed actively…

Stock markets worldwide are careening even lower Friday after China matched US President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war. China’s response to US tariffs caused an immediate acceleration of losses in markets worldwide.The Commerce Ministry in Beijing said it would respond to the 34% tariffs imposed by the US on imports from China with its own 34% tariff on imports of all US products beginning April 10. The United States and China are the world’s two largest economies.The intensified trade conflict between the US and China accelerated a slide in the German DAX index on…

And as U.S. stock markets plunged following his announcement of sweeping tariffs on 180 countries this week, Trump beamed that all would  soon rebound and boom. America’s heading to glory days. Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, complained critics were taking far too short-term a view: “We’re going to have a booming stock market for a long time because we’re reinvesting in the United States of America,” he said. But the heavy-handedness Trump displayed, all based on cockamamie calculations and deeply flawed economics, is as maddening as King George’s restrictive trade practices toward the American colonies — and at least the…

Hiding underground The question lurking over the talks is how much mineral wealth Ukraine actually has. The country has about 5 percent of the world’s reserves of rare earths, according to the U.N. That includes lithium, beryllium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and phosphate, elements crucial for the energy, tech and defense sectors, said Alla Vasylenko, senior researcher with the Institute of Geology Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.    “Most of them were discovered in the 1960s-1980s. Back then, researchers were not paying attention to issues that are currently very important: the intended purpose of…

Russian missiles targeted a residential neighbourhood with ballistic missiles on Friday in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 14 people, including six children.The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Lysak, said on his official channel on Telegram that more than 30 others were injured and are at medical facilities seeking treatment.Among those injured were children, with the youngest being just three-months-old who suffered lacerations as a result of the attack.Residents say some of those injured sustained critical wounds and describe the attack as terrifying.“it started buzzing immediately and then exploded right away. I couldn’t…