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Published on 03/09/2025 – 9:23 GMT+2 The creator of celebrated British comedy sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd and co-creator of Black Books was arrested this week over a series of posts about transgender people. Graham Linehan, 57, said he was arrested Monday at Heathrow Airport. The Metropolitan Police didn’t name Linehan but said it had arrested a man at the airport on suspicion of inciting violence in posts on X. Linehan, who is well known for posts asserting that trans women are men, said in April that trans women were violent criminals if they used women-only facilities. He…
The date for the budget will be confirmed today – so Sam and Anne look at the options for Rachel Reeves’ diary with a backdrop of more market jitters. They also go over the ways she could plug the hole in the public finances – estimated to be between £20-£50 billion -while still meeting her fiscal rules. But why isn’t the government saying more about the tricky decisions ahead? There are more scraps from Monday’s government reshuffle – with a name of someone who apparently turned down a role. As well as from the first PMQs after summer, Keir Starmer…
By AP with Eleanor Butler Published on 27/08/2025 – 8:16 GMT+2 •Updated 8:16 India is bracing for a sharp blow to its overseas trade as steep US tariffs take effect on a range of Indian products on Wednesday. The move threatens over half of India’s exports to its largest market and highlights the fragile trade ties between the two countries. President Donald Trump had initially announced a 25% tariff on Indian goods but he signed an executive order earlier this month, imposing an additional 25% tariff due to India’s purchases of Russian oil. That brought the combined tariffs imposed by the…
“We have a UEFA foundation for children. We are not living on another planet. We are living in this world. And when you see children dying all around the world because of — it’s a diplomatic statement, if I say — reckless politicians. Whoever thinks that ‘Stop Killing Children, Stop Killing Civilians’ is a political message is an idiot, for me,” Čeferin said. “It’s terrible that children are dying because of political interest, starving to death. Mohammed, who was giving the medals [at last month’s UEFA Super Cup] with me, lost his mother and his father [in Gaza]. And he…
By AP with Doloresz Katanich Published on 27/08/2025 – 10:46 GMT+2 Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, announced on Tuesday that it was partnering with the cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com to form a company that holds CRO, a token created by Crypto.com. A blank-check company tied to Yorkville Advisors is another co-founder of the new firm, called Trump Media CRO Strategy. Trump Media said it plans to purchase $105 million (€90.5mn) worth of CRO. Yorkville said the total expected funding for the company’s treasury will be $1 billion (€860m) worth of CRO, or about 19% of the…
POLITICO: We’re here in Monaco for the Champions League draw. At the end of this Champions League season, the final’s going to be held in Budapest. Do you have any misgivings about the fact that it’s in Budapest given Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ongoing relationship with Russia, and tensions he’s had with Ukraine? Čeferin: For me, if we would have any problems with that, we would become a political organization. Hungary is our member. I respect Hungarians. I respect the Hungarian government exactly the same as the German government or any other government in Europe. And if you think that…
Spain is suffering one of the worst summers ever due to wildfires. Thousands of people have lost their homes, their livestock and all their belongings. While the land has a long way to go to recover, many people are unsure of their next steps to overcome their financial losses. The flames have devastated more than 400,000 hectares of land, and firefighters from across the European Union were called in to help extinguish blazes, as Spanish brigades were unable to cope with the multiplying outbreaks. While insurance will be very important, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has declared all the burned…
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 03/09/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 Forget the human Olympics, this arena in Olympia, Greece, is all about machines flexing their athletic skills. At the first International Humanoid Olympiad, robots are showing just how much they can do – dancing, boxing, playing soccer, and even archery. The ancient Greek city of Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympics. Organisers say they want to bring hype to robots, calling humanoids “physical AI”. Despite the explosive advance of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications like ChatGPT, their physical cousins, robots with human-like appearances and skills, are lagging years behind. This event…
Heute Abend tagt der Koalitionsausschuss – und die Stimmung zwischen Union und SPD ist nicht die beste. Nachdem SPD-Chefin Bärbel Bas die Warnungen zum Sozialstaat des Kanzlers als „Bullshit“ bezeichnet hat, steht vieles auf der Kippe. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, was auf der Agenda steht und ob eine Einigung überhaupt möglich ist. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Matthias Miersch. Der SPD-Fraktionschef über seine schwierige politische Partnerschaft mit Jens Spahn, wieso er Bärbel Bas „Bullshit” nicht unangemessen findet und warum er an möglichen Steuererhöhungen festhält. Außerdem: Das Klassentreffen der Diplomaten in Berlin. Gordon blickt auf die Botschafterkonferenz kommende Woche und auf einen Beinahe-Eklat um einen…
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Washington had carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel, operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, which departed from Venezuela. In a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social, Trump noted that 11 people “positively identified Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists” were killed in a kinetic strike in what is a rare US military operation in the Americas. It’s a dramatic escalation in the Republican administration’s efforts to combat the flow of illicit drugs, including fentanyl, coming into the United States, mostly entering via their southern…