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A fake photo circulating online of two alleged Israeli passports belonging to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelenska, allegedly shows that the Ukrainian president and his family have chosen Israel as their homeland instead of Ukraine. The Facebook post was published at the beginning of September alongside the caption: “You can twist it any way you like, but we always come back to the same point: Zelenskyy and his family have a homeland of choice that inspires, protects and supports him in everything he does, and that homeland is certainly not Ukraine. This is common knowledge, just as it…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 22:09 GMT+2 Typhoon Dujuan left at least four people dead and 22 injured in Japan, while thousands of houses near Tokyo were without power after the storm swept through the region, authorities said on Tuesday. Officials warned that the death toll may continue to rise as six people remain missing, noting that search and rescue operations were underway to locate them. The typhoon moved away from Japan’s coast and out into the Pacific by the morning, allowing authorities to lift or downgrade most heavy rain and landslide warnings. Dujuan had already led to the early closure…
Budget Minister David Amiel estimated that the country would end up spending €1.4 billion in subsidies this year. France has since March favored combatting rising energy prices with targeted fuel subsidies as opposed to across-the-board tax cuts, which would likely exacerbate France’s dire fiscal outlook. Lescure said that approach would remain “unchanged.” But the conflict in the Middle East has pushed oil prices to near their highest level since May, while gas prices were more than double their level before the U.S. and Israel bombed Iran in February, prompting the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. French President Emmanuel Macron…
European affairs ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday for another round of negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget. Despite a shared ambition to reach a deal by the end of the year, negotiations appear to have stalled, with significant differences still unresolved. “This is my fourth [Multiannual Financial Framework] negotiations, so I have to admit that some of the discussions come with a large sense of déjà vu,” European Commissioner for the Budget Piotr Serafin said during a debate with EU ministers on Tuesday. “Many positions are quite predictable, as they have been consistently repeated over the last decades,”…
Ancient Roman Pula on Croatia’s Adriatic coast is being transformed by contemporary light art as the Visualia Light Festival brings installations to 16 locations across the historic city. More than 2,000-year-old Roman architecture becomes the backdrop for projections, interactive installations and contemporary artworks exploring themes including peace, nature, human relationships and technology. Artists from across Europe and beyond are taking part, while the city’s Roman amphitheatre and historic centre provide a contrast between ancient architecture and some of the newest developments in light art. All in all, the artists come from Croatia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland, France, the United Kingdom,…
La menace russe s’intensifie en Europe, alertent Emmanuel Macron et plusieurs de ses homologues sur le continent. Comment ont été planifiées les opérations d’ingérence ayant récemment touché la France ? Des camps d’entraînements secrets dans les Balkans aux navires de la flotte fantôme, quelle organisation à grande échelle a été mise en place le Kremlin pour déstabiliser l’Europe ? Anthony Lattier reçoit dans le podcast Playbook Paris Marion Solletty, grand reporter Europe à POLITICO, autrice de Les agents du chaos, et Laura Kayali, notre spécialiste défense, qui a contribué à ce livre-enquête. N’hésitez pas à vous abonner et à laisser…
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has admitted that Riga “stood to the end” regarding its lone objection to take two wealthy Russian businessmen off the European Union’s wide-ranging sanctions list. But he warned that the exemption should be a one-off occurrence and not be par for the course when debating EU sanctions in the future. “Either it is sports, what we’ve seen, either culture, and now one by one cherry-picking out of sanctions, that is not the way to go,” he said. “That is normalising Russia.” After two weeks of drawn-out talks among EU ambassadors, France succeeded in its push…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 17:43 GMT+2•Updated 17:44 Russia is quietly modernising bomb shelters in Moscow and St Petersburg, with procurement data showing tens of millions of roubles being allocated for repairs that have not been publicly announced, as Ukrainian drones intensify strikes on Russian territory. State procurement records, reported by Russian independent media, show 39 million roubles (€400,000) allocated in early September to restore nine facilities in three districts of Moscow’s South-West administrative region, an area home to dozens of research institutes and defence contractors. Work is due to be completed by 30 November and covers entrances, internal partitions, doors…
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Published on 22/09/2026 – 18:32 GMT+2•Updated 19:21 US President Donald Trump has signed a new Greenland security deal with Denmark and the island territory. Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, shared online by the Danish Foreign Ministry, the US will be permitted to expand its military presence on Greenland through the modernisation and enlargement of its current Pituffik Space Base and the establishment of new defence areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig. It…