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Published on 28 October 2026 – 13:53 GMT+1 Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning director of It Was Just an Accident, has been sentenced in absentia with a new ruling by a Tehran court. According to his lawyer, the five-year, one-month prison sentence also includes the confiscation of all his assets, a ban from engaging in social media activities for two years, and a two-year travel ban. The ruling, issued by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, was first reported to the online Iranian reformist media outlet Emtedad News Agency. The ruling was handed down without Panahi…
Ireland, the Netherlands and Iceland are again boycotting the 2027 competition but Spain and Slovenia “have not yet decided” whether they will compete, the EBU said. The Union has given both broadcasters until December to confirm their participation “in recognition of the complexity of the matter.” The song contest has been embroiled in controversy in recent years over Israel’s participation. The EBU changed its rules earlier this year to block countries involved in armed conflict or any other “sensitive geopolitical situation” from hosting the annual competition, after Israel almost won in 2025 and 2026. The winning country typically hosts the…
Published on 28 October 2026 – 12:14 GMT+1 The US State Department has said it would issue visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family following his loss to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s runoff election. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to visa privacy laws, said “the State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States.” However, Bolsonaro’s whereabouts remain unclear, with conflicting reports about his movements after leaving Brazil despite a court order banning him from travelling abroad. Argentine…
By Euronews Roma Published on 28 October 2026 – 12:50 GMT+1 Across Europe, the production of satellites is increasingly being aligned with the pace of the manufacturing industry. That is the gamble behind the Stellar Hub, the new Space Industries factory inaugurated on 28 October in Settimo Torinese, just outside Turin: a plant designed to assemble, integrate and test satellites and spacecraft of up to 600 kilograms, bringing all the main production stages together under one roof. At its heart is a 2,000-square-metre clean room, among the largest in Europe. This is the space where Space Industries will concentrate the industrial…
Ryanair passengers checking luggage will need to drop their bags off at least 60 minutes before departure from next month. Currently, those travelling with the airline can use airport bag drop services up to 40 minutes ahead of scheduled departure. The change comes into effect at all airports it operates from on 10 November. First announced in April, the change was made to ensure customers have more time to clear airport security and passport control queues. According to Ryanair, just 20% of passengers currently check in bags on their flights. “This small change will give the 20% of Ryanair passengers…
Agatha Christie was volunteering at a hospital dispensary during World War I when an idea for a crime novel came to her. It would be about a wealthy matriarch, whose mysterious death-by-poisoning is ultimately solved by a fussy but fantastically smart Belgian detective named Hercule Poirot. Its title? “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”. After being rejected by several publishers, the book was finally published in 1921 in the United Kingdom — and was met with an underwhelming response. This would all change just five years later, when Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” shocked the world with its masterful twist.…
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Zelenskyy praised the two Nordic leaders for their help, saying he had a “positive” view of them. “We really have very good relations with these countries. They truly help,” Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian leader said Putin had been taken out of diplomatic isolation last year when U.S. President Donald Trump met him in Alaska. “Since Alaska, Europeans have also been in contact with Russia,” Zelenskyy said. “They just haven’t done so as openly as the leaders of Norway and Finland.” Everyone understands that there have been contacts “at the national security adviser level and between intelligence…
The crash occurred between Urda and Los Yébenes, in Toledo province, when a train travelling from Madrid towards Seville struck the rear of another that had stopped on the same track. Two carriages were knocked off the rails, one of them torn apart, with twisted metal and debris scattered down a gravel embankment. Aerial footage shows the damaged trains surrounded by firefighters, police and rescue teams in a flat, rural landscape. Castilla-La Mancha government spokeswoman Esther Padilla confirmed 10 deaths but warned that the toll was likely to rise. The collision involved a RENFE train carrying 397 passengers and an…
Jury selection is expected to begin on Wednesday in Los Angeles for another landmark trial in the US about the alleged harms of social media on young users, with Meta and, for the first time, Snap as defendants. Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in recent years in American courtrooms at local, state and federal level but also in European courtrooms in France, Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands, with claims about alleged harms to children and teenagers caused by social media companies and their platforms. Social media platforms are facing global pushback over the dangers of their algorithms, from social…
Two high-speed trains collided south of Madrid on Wednesday morning, months after the Adamuz train crash that killed dozens of people and shook Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government. At least 30 people died and several were injured in the crash, which took place near Urda in Toledo province just before 9 a.m. local time, local authorities in Castilla-La Mancha told Spanish media. Officials fear the toll could exceed the 46 deaths in the Jan. 18 Adamuz crash, Spanish media reported, citing government sources. Emergency services said a Renfe train rear-ended a stationary Iryo train, causing two Iryo carriages to fall…