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Members of the far-right Patriots for Europe group are celebrating the victory of populist right-winger Andrej Babiš and his ANO party in the Czech parliamentary elections. ANO on Saturday won the elections in Czechia with more than 34 percent of the vote, well ahead of the current center-right governing coalition Spolu (Together), which had 23 percent. Babiš is the hot candidate to become prime minister after ANO’s strong showing.The agricultural tycoon co-founded the Patriots group, along with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Austria’s Herbert Kickl, in the summer of 2024. Soon joined by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the Patriots surged…
The British Conservative Party plans to create a new force to detain and deport people who entered the U.K. through irregular channels, modeling the agency on the U.S.’s immigration enforcement team ICE. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Britain “must tackle the scourge of illegal immigration into Britain and secure our borders,” according to ITV. “That is why the Conservatives are setting out a serious and comprehensive new plan to end this crisis,” she said. The “Removals Force” — a revamp of the existing immigration enforcement unit that sits within the U.K.’s interior ministry — would work closely with the police…
The mayor of Lviv said public transport routes were not operating due to a “massive enemy attack,” which had also caused a partial electricity outage in the region. “Russia targeted residential areas with drones and aerial bombs. Across all affected areas, residential buildings and critical infrastructure were damaged,” Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X. It was just the latest instance of Poland scrambling fighter planes to protect its airspace amid Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine. In early September, Poland shot down Russian drones that forced the closure of the Warsaw airport as Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to be…
By Euronews Published on 05/10/2025 – 11:44 GMT+2 At least five people have been killed after Russia launched a “combined” missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad were targeted with cruise missiles, “shahed” drones and Kinzhal missiles. Moscow “once again” targeted civilian infrastructure, Zelenskyy said, with more than 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones. He called for “more protection and faster implementation of all defence agreements.” An entire family of four, including a teenage girl, were killed in the western…
Hamas said it was ready to release all the hostages following U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for a “Gaza peace plan” on Friday, an announcement that many European leaders welcomed. Despite Trump calling on Israel to stop bombing the coastal Palestinian enclave on Friday, Israel’s offensive on Gaza continued on Saturday, with dozens of people killed. Yemen’s Houthi rebel group also launched a missile at Israel on Saturday, which Israel intercepted, Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli delegation will include Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, while Hamas could send senior officials Ghazi Hamad, Osama Hamdan and Muhamed Darwish, according to local media…
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“A heartfelt thank you to the Law Enforcement Agencies for the extraordinary work carried out in these complex days, despite having had to face attacks, object throwing, and organized attempts at confrontation,” Meloni said in a social media post. The unrest started as Israel intercepted the pro-Palestinian Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of 41 boats attempting to carry humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. A United Nations-backed agency in August declared a man-made famine in the coastal enclave. Israel rejected that assessment. Delegations from Israel and the Hamas militant group are expected to begin truce talks on Monday in Egypt.
A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling Saturday in a lawsuit brought by the state and city. US District Judge Karin Immergut issued the order pending further arguments in the suit, saying the relatively small protests the city has seen did not justify the use of federalised forces, and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon’s state sovereignty. “This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” Immergut wrote. She later continued, “This historical tradition…
“We are clearly pro-European and pro-NATO, of course,” Babiš said at the press conference on Saturday following the results. “The EU has 27 members. Ukraine is not a member of the EU. We want, obviously, to talk about Europe, about European citizens, about the energy prices, the migration pact,” he added. Babiš, together with Orbán, is a co-founder of the far-right Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament. Several Patriots for Europe members, including Orbán and France’s Jordan Bardella, congratulated Babiš on his victory. “Truth has prevailed! Andrej Babiš has won the Czech parliamentary elections with a convincing lead,”…
As a rising number of people turn towards digital payments in Europe, the share of cash transactions is declining, although banknotes still play a significant economic role. In the eurozone, just over half of all transactions (52%) were paid in cash in 2024, according to an ECB survey of 40,000 participants. Even so, this share is much lower when looking at value — amounting to 39% of transactions. In 14 out of 20 eurozone countries, cash is the most frequently used payment method, and it makes up between 45% and 55% of transactions in about half of the countries. Comparing…