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An unpublished letter by Miguel de Unamuno has, 90 years on, confirmed a remarkable meeting in London between the Spanish writer and H. G. Wells, author of science-fiction classics such as ‘The War of the Worlds’ and ‘The Time Machine’. The document has been found in the archive of the Unamuno House-Museum at the University of Salamanca. It is a letter sent by Unamuno to his children on 2 March 1936 from London, in which he explains that he had dinner with Wells and that the two of them went to the cinema afterwards. The two writers attended a screening…

It wasn’t the first time such an improvised explosive had been discovered on European soil. Almost two years earlier, on Aug. 20, 2024, police investigators arrived at a cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, with a bomb disposal team. They had received a highly sensitive tip from Poland concerning explosives and a Ukrainian man alleged to have deposited them there for Russian intelligence, according to investigation files from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau. At a weathered grave, beneath artificial flowers and concrete slabs, officers recovered a plastic bag containing two tin cans. According to their labels, they contained corn. Forensic analysis, however,…

Severe problems in many parts of the Greek island of Crete have been caused by the powerful wave of bad weather that has been under way since Wednesday night. The situation is particularly difficult in the mountainous Mylopotamos area, where the deluge has created serious disruption, mainly in Zoniana, Livadia and Axos. In Zoniana, water entered homes, roads were flooded and in many places debris has been swept onto the carriageway. Crews from the Municipality of Mylopotamos and the Region of Crete have been working since the early hours, using machinery to restore access and tackle the damage. At the…

Published on 02/10/2026 – 6:09 GMT+2 A medical helicopter transporting a patient crashed off Catalina Island near Los Angeles, killing two people and leaving two others hospitalised, authorities said on Thursday. Rescuers continued searching for a fifth person who was aboard the aircraft and went missing after the Wednesday night crash. The Coast Guard, firefighters and divers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were among emergency crews who searched through the night and into the night on Thursday. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Coast Guard Captain Stacey Crecy said the helicopter went down shortly after…

Donald Trump setzt die EU massiv unter Druck: Sein Energieminister Chris Wright fordert die Freigabe europäischer Dieselreserven, um amerikanische Rekordpreise zu drücken. Andernfalls droht ein US-Exportstopp, der auch in Europa einen Preisschock auslösen würde. Ob Brüssel der Erpressung nachgibt, beleuchtet diese Folge. Innenpolitisch bahnt sich der nächste Krach an, nachdem das Kanzleramt die geplante Zuckersteuer von Finanzminister Lars Klingbeil gestoppt hat. POLITICO-Gesundheitsexperte Anton Dieckhoff analysiert, warum das Vorhaben am CSU-geführten Landwirtschaftsministerium scheitert und wie ein Kompromiss aussehen könnte, der die Verbraucher schont. Zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit blickt der amtierende Bundesratspräsident und Bremer Bürgermeister Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) auf den Zustand…

Is Brussels trying to freeze EU funds to a German state that voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in an election in early September? According to several social media posts amassing thousands of views, likes and shares, and often with a picture of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attached, it is. They allege that millions, or even billions, of euros could be withheld from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, located in east-central Germany, after voters handed the AfD a landslide victory on 6 September. However, the 39 seats it won were not enough to command a…

Europe’s gray-zone war with Russia is getting harder to ignore. Sarah Wheaton speaks to security expert and author Elisabeth Braw about how Europe should respond as sabotage, arson, cyberattacks and attacks on critical infrastructure become more frequent and more dangerous, who pays when businesses are targeted, and what happens when one of them turns deadly. They also discuss Braw’s new book, The Undersea War: The International Battle for Supremacy at the Bottom of the World, and the increasingly contested cables, pipelines and infrastructure hidden beneath the seabed — another target in this growing gray-zone conflict. You can read Elisabeth’s most…

Published on 01/10/2026 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:08 Montenegro may fall short of translating all EU laws accurately before it joins the bloc. The European Commission is weighing several options for a temporary derogation, including letting the country use an existing EU language in the meantime. Montenegro aims to become the EU’s 28th member by 2028. But first it must adopt and translate the so-called acquis, the tens of thousands of EU laws that form the bloc’s legal framework. Brussels is growing wary that it will not finish in time. “Montenegro will need to produce translations of the acquis into its…

Madrid’s Prado Museum and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum have joined forces to restore the memory of women in art. The two major European galleries are pooling efforts to revisit the shared history between Spain and the Netherlands and to give women artists, patrons and key figures the prominence they have always deserved in their rooms. The centrepiece of this agreement is an international postdoctoral fellowship that will start in 2027. The aim is to delve into the collections and shed light on women’s roles during the Habsburg era, with findings that will inform upcoming projects at both museums and culminate in a…