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1) Don’t be late to the party “If you’re doing it now, you’re kind of too late,” Roman says of efforts to schmooze key Democrats who have made it into both the Senate and House this week. The British Embassy has, he says, already been doing its homework, tracking potential Democratic Party contenders throughout the year in anticipation of a wave. But there’s stiff global competition to build those links first. “The French competitors, the German competitors, the Korean competitors — each embassy is trying to build a network that allows them a level of access,” he says. In addition…
Above the tents of a displacement camp in al-Mawasi, near Khan Yunis, homemade wind turbines spin in the sea breeze, providing a lifeline to families left without electricity. The devices were built by 60-year-old Kamal Al-Dabary, a former engineering student, using scooter motors, discarded water tanks and electrical components salvaged from destroyed homes. The energy generated is stored in batteries. With solar panels now costing nearly $5,000 and much of Gaza’s electricity infrastructure destroyed, his invention offers an affordable alternative. The turbines produce just enough power to charge phones and run lights, fans and electric razors. But for displaced residents,…
Ein unruhiges Wochenende für Friedrich Merz: Der CDU-Chef muss gleich drei drängende Probleme abräumen. Neben dem Streit um die Zuckersteuer und der Nachfolge von EZB-Chefin Christine Lagarde geht es vor allem um die Kandidatur für das Bundespräsidialamt. Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnet ein, warum Merz bei der Personalie Ilse Aigner unter Zugzwang gerät und welche Deals nun hinter den Kulissen geschmiedet werden. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Konrad Körner, Vize-Chef der Jungen Union, über die Machtansprüche der CSU und was eine bayerische Bundespräsidentin für die Kanzlerträume von Markus Söder bedeuten würde. Zündstoff birgt zudem der geplante Spritpreisdeckel, der an der Zapfsäule eigentlich für Entlastung…
By Irina Sheludkova & Euronews Russian Published on 5 November 2026 – 10:36 GMT+1 Russia is planning to impose a levy on airline tickets from 2027 to fund its struggling civilian aircraft programme, with domestic passengers paying 500 roubles (€5.4) and international passengers 1,000 roubles (€10.8) per ticket, according to the State Duma’s budget and tax committee. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is developing the measure on President Vladimir Putin’s instructions. The funds would cover the costs of leasing and operating 258 aircraft under the Comprehensive Programme for Expanding the Production of Aircraft, including the MS-21, Tu-214, SJ-100, and Il-114-300 models. Russia’s…
The Democrats scored a resounding victory in this week’s U.S. midterm elections. But will their triumph actually change anything for Europe? With the balance of power shifting in Congress, could the incoming lawmakers move the needle on issues Europe cares about, from tariffs to support for Ukraine? And what do MAGA’s bruising losses mean for Europe’s own nationalist and populist parties? Are they a warning for Europe’s far right? Or could the very issues that battered Republicans — affordability and the cost of living — end up propelling Europe’s far right into power? Joining host Sarah Wheaton to discuss this…
Flames and thick smoke rose from an Ozon warehouse in Adygeysk, southern Russia, on Wednesday November 4, in footage shared on social media. The e-commerce giant said one of its warehouses had come under a drone attack. The incident comes as Ukraine presses ahead with a campaign targeting logistics infrastructure across Russia. Other sites hit have included facilities belonging to Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online marketplace, and its main competitor Wildberries, the country’s largest online retailer. Kyiv has alleged that Wildberries supplied components to the Russian military.
Flames engulfed a huge red banner showing Donald Trump, JD Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu and Steve Witkoff in Tehran’s Enghelab Square on Wednesday, as crowds gathered to mark the anniversary of the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis. The four figures were pictured with torn clothes and apparent injuries. Demonstrators marched with portraits of Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba, while others displayed caricatures of Trump and Netanyahu, including one depicting the US president as a dog on a leash. At the former American embassy, crowds chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” and stamped on US and Israeli flags. The…
A sudden blank screen startled the almost three million customers of Ueno Bank in the early hours of Tuesday 3 November. At around 03:24, the app of the Paraguayan institution, a key player in the system that manages state funds worth millions and has grown at breakneck speed in its three years of existence, stopped displaying users’ accounts and showed a single message: “We cannot display the balance”. At the same time, the Central Bank of Paraguay issued a tough statement on its social networks: the institution was being taken over and its liquidation process was beginning. This “resolution procedure”…
Burnham’s decision to actively exclude Putin comes after U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a diplomatic row by inviting the Russian leader to America’s G20 summit in Miami this December. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband previously told POLITICO Britain will not ditch its ban on directly engaging with Russia, but that it was for the U.S. to make its own decisions. A photocall at the G20 foreign ministers meeting last week was canceled after politicians, including Miliband, refused to be pictured with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The U.K. has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters since Russia’s full-scale invasion of…
Israeli soldiers stood guard near olive groves in the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir on Thursday as Palestinian families gathered what they could during one of the few days they are permitted to harvest their crops. Footage showed troops firing tear gas near the olive pickers, with smoke drifting through the trees as a boy threw a canister aside. Home to around 3,000 people, the village lies north-east of Ramallah and has some 4,300 hectares of land, yet residents say they can access barely 100 hectares. Reaching their groves requires prior Israeli military approval, with access restricted to a…