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Published on 09/09/2026 – 15:22 GMT+2 The performance by the Cesária Évora Orchestra on Saturday, 12th, is the highlight of the Paraíso festival, which celebrates African culture over two days in the city of Braga. Made up of musicians who accompanied the “Barefoot Diva” in live performances and studio recordings at the height of the Cape Verdean singer’s career, including Teófilo Chantre, composer of many of the songs sung by Cesária Évora, the orchestra backs the voices of Elida Almeida, Lucibela and Ceuzany, regarded as among the greatest voices of Cape Verde. The concert, a tribute to the singer who…
Ils chuchotent à son oreille Autour de Le Pen, il y a aussi tous ces “conseillers informels”, pour reprendre les mots de Philippe Olivier, ceux qui entretiennent un contact direct avec la patronne, fort de décennies de compagnonnage. Ainsi de Bruno Bilde, député du Pas-de-Calais, ami de vingt ans malgré des brouilles régulières. “C’est un spécialiste de la carte électorale, des sondages, des affaires juridiques”, estime Olivier. Le conseiller lepéniste déjà cité le dépeint en vigie, alertant sur un sujet “mal pris” en circonscription, pointant qu’il faudrait “accélérer” sur un autre, pointant une intervention publique d’un élu RN qu’il conviendrait…
Published on 09/09/2026 – 14:21 GMT+2 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz labelled the far-right AfD’s demand for mass “remigration” a form of “ethnic cleansing by skin colour and origin” in a heated parliamentary exchange on Wednesday. Three days after the AfD scored a crushing election victory over his centre-right CDU in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, Merz and AfD co-leader Alice Weidel sharply attacked each other in the assembly. Merz took aim at the Alternative for Germany party’s demand for mass deportations of rejected asylum seekers and people arriving via irregular channels. “The word ‘remigration’ is nothing other than a synonym…
Decorated cows made their way from the Alpine pastures into Gstaad on Saturday for the annual Züglete festival in Switzerland. Families dressed their animals with floral crowns before leading them down the mountain and through the busy town centre. The event marks the traditional move from the summer pastures to their winter farms. Crowds gathered along Gstaad’s promenade to watch several herds pass, while cowbells and alphorns added to the day’s celebrations. The festival also drew visitors from abroad. Two tourists from Melbourne said they had built their European holiday around seeing the Züglete after discovering the event online. The…
Published on 09/09/2026 – 14:04 GMT+2 Qatar’s budget deficit more than doubled to 21.2bn riyals (€5bn) in the second quarter of 2026, the Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday. The deficit stood at 10.3bn riyals (€2.44bn) in the first quarter. Total revenue reached about 25.6bn riyals (€6.06bn), while expenditure amounted to approximately 46.9bn riyals (€11.1bn). On 25 August, Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari disputed reports about government spending cuts, saying figures had been taken out of context. He said reported reductions of up to 30% applied only to operating expenses and excluded salaries and capital projects. He described the…
Astronauts, heads of state, as well as major economic players in the space industry are set to unite on Wednesday and Thursday at the international space summit, co-hosted by France and Germany, at Paris’ Grand Palais. Several US companies reportedly withdrew from the event, due to pressure from Washington over support for “EU policy positions.” The summit comes at a strategic crossroads for the European space industry, described by President Emmanuel Macron as an opportunity to “bring Europeans together around a common ambition” and develop a “shared vision of Europe’s place on the map of global space powers by 2035″…
A former tram depot and diesel station dating back to 1912 has been transformed into Uzbekistan’s first permanent centre dedicated to contemporary art. The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA), redesigned by Paris-based Studio KO, brings exhibitions, performance, film, research and education under one roof in the Uzbek capital. But its significance extends beyond the creation of another cultural venue in Tashkent. The centre brings artists from Uzbekistan into closer contact with the international contemporary art world, while developing partnerships with major cultural institutions in Europe, the United States and Asia. The centre adds a contemporary dimension to a country…
The EU Court said the bloc’s sanctions criteria were objective, sufficiently precise and proportionate. They target prominent businesspeople operating in Russia, particularly those active in sectors that provide significant revenue to the Russian government. It dismissed Abramovich’s claim that the EU was targeting him because of his public profile, noting that sanctions were imposed on him because of his capital holding “and not, as he maintains, a desire to exploit him on account of his public notoriety,” the statement said. Judges also rejected Abramovich’s argument that the measures were effectively decided by Council working groups rather than by EU governments…
There has been dismay and pledges for action across Europe after it was revealed on Tuesday that maths and reading skills among pupils have declined across the world, largely due to digitalisation and a drop in recreational reading. The OECD’s latest PISA report, based on a standardised test taken by 15-year-olds, found that student performance across OECD countries reached a record low in maths and reading. Within the EU, pupils in Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, and Bulgaria score below the OECD average in reading, mathematics and science skills. Only Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Austria, Poland and Czechia managed…
Acute respiratory distress, unusual odours, coloured explosive blasts, long term health problems, and environmental degradation are among the indicators that a group of experts has identified as credible evidence to support witness accounts of exposure to toxic chemicals linked to military activity in Sudan between 2024 and 2025. The findings are described in a 32-page investigation, seen by Euronews, into the use of chemical weapons in civil areas in Sudan amid the ongoing war that started in 2023. The investigation was led by former senior officials of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), two of whom served…