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Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has been barred from Parliament for seven sitting days after entering the Senate wearing a burqa in protest against colleagues who refused to consider her bill to ban the garment nationwide. The One Nation leader was suspended on Monday and formally censured on Tuesday after declining to apologise for what lawmakers described as a disrespectful stunt. Government Senate leader Penny Wong said Hanson’s act mocked a faith practiced by nearly one million Australians and risked fuelling social division. Hanson, who previously sparked outrage with a similar protest in 2017, argued she was highlighting hypocrisy and said…

“Europeans are the only ones – because it’s in the [U.S.] plan – who can decide on what we’ll do with the Russian frozen assets that are held by Europeans,” Macron said on French radio station RTL. While the French president praised Washington for adopting “an approach that goes in the right direction,” he said the plan, which has been seen in Europe as reflecting mostly Russian interests, contains “elements that need improving.” “We want peace,” he said, but not “a capitulation.” Instead, Macron called on Europeans not to show “signs of weakness” that would embolden Russia in “its strategic confrontation”…

One small manufacturer based in England said: “We are ready to go; we have built factories that could start making equipment tomorrow. But we can’t until an order is placed.” Armored vehicle maker Supacat has said that while its business is stable, suppliers will suffer without a predictable path ahead. “This is about the wider industry and our partners in the supply chain that have been contributing,” Toby Cox, the company’s head of sales, told POLITICO. “Our assumption is we don’t get more [orders], some of these companies will have a downturn in their orders.” Keeping production lines warm Andrew…

Updated: 25/11/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this November 25th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More

While the DMA was designed to centralize digital enforcement in Brussels, it has not boxed out national regulators from pursuing Big Tech cases.  Responding on Monday, the Commission welcomed Google’s Italian settlement and said the changes it foresees would be rolled out EU-wide. “Google’s commitments are a good example of how the work of national authorities on consumer protection law complements the Commission’s enforcement of the DMA to achieve better results,” a Commission spokesperson said. “Google will change its consent screens to provide clearer, more accurate information — both about how Google combines and cross-uses personal data and what the…

Published on 25/11/2025 – 7:21 GMT+1 Two mountain climbers have died on New Zealand’s tallest peak of Aoraki and two others were rescued, authorities announced on Tuesday. The dead climbers’ bodies were located and operations are underway as specialist searchers work to recover them from what authorities described as a “challenging alpine environment”. None of the climbers has been publicly identified, but the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association said in a statement that one of those who died was a member of their organisation and the other was that guide’s client. Police Sergeant Kevin McErlain, speaking to local media, said…

Europe is getting older, and the political willpower to handle such a shift is threatened by the “greying of politics”, according to a new report. Ageing leaders, as well as ageing voters, are “narrowing the political space for changes”, said researchers from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The report pays particular attention to emerging economies in Europe where the EBRD invests. In this part of Europe, a shrinking working-age population could reduce annual GDP per capita growth by an average of almost 0.4 percentage points between 2024 and 2050. Such a transition, driven by falling fertility rates…

Kaum zurück aus Afrika, muss Kanzler Friedrich Merz in Berlin in den Ring: Beim Arbeitgebertag trifft er auf seinen aktuell lautesten Kritiker, JU-Chef Johannes Winkel. Es geht um die Zukunft der Rente. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, ob ein neues Rentenpaket den Aufstand der Jungen stoppen kann und warum Merz heute jedes Wort auf die Goldwaage legen muss. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Philipp Türmer. Der Juso-Vorsitzende hält dagegen. Er nennt die Pläne der Jungen Union „langweilig“, fordert eine Einbeziehung von Selbstständigen, Beamten und Politikern in die Rentenkasse und erklärt, warum die Koalition trotz des Streits nicht platzen wird. Außerdem: In Washington tobt ein Machtkampf…

Published on 25/11/2025 – 5:54 GMT+1 Gunmen fired on a Yemeni provincial leader’s motorcade Monday, killing at least five security officers and wounding two others, according to authorities. The attack targeted Taiz Governor Nabil Shamsan on a road linking the southwestern city to the rest of the country, said Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, a provincial spokesperson. Abdel-Rahman added that two assailants were killed in the shootout. In a statement, the governor’s office said security and military forces were working to bring those behind the attack to justice. No group has immediately claimed credit for the attack so far. The province’s capital, also…

Insiders say a drawn-out fight over the future of drilling in the U.K.’s Scottish oil and gas heartlands is finally reaching its conclusion.  It is a row which has split the governing Labour Party, pitted Miliband against the all-powerful Treasury, and will, some of Labour’s own MPs fear, undermine the government’s climate credentials and expose the party to even more political pain.  “If a progressive government with a big majority, in the country that started the Industrial Revolution, can’t hold firm on new fossil fuel drilling,” worried one Labour MP, “how can we expect developing countries to do what’s needed to…