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Published on 10 November 2026 – 14:31 GMT+1 Qatar said on Tuesday it had seen “progress” in talks between the US and Iran, stating that Doha as a key mediator was “working tirelessly to end the uncertainty over the crisis between Washington and Tehran”. The assessment came a day after Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met US President Donald Trump at the White House. Al Hashmi said the White House meeting “was held in a positive atmosphere and was focused on making progress in the talks.” “We cannot say how close or how far away an…
Published on 10 November 2026 – 13:21 GMT+1 The group, which late on Monday said it would axe 2,300 jobs in Germany, booked an impairment there totalling €4.85 billion ($5.45bn) for the six months to end-September. Vodafone added in an earnings statement that it suffered a net loss of €4.79 billion in its first half. It had reported a profit after tax of €829 million in the first half of its 2025/26 fiscal year. “I am very happy about our overall group performance, but Germany is not yet where it needs to be,” chief executive Margherita Della Valle said in…
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “We do not routinely comment on the activity of other nations. Aircraft and other assets move regularly according to operational requirements.” It comes weeks after an Iran-linked security incident at RAF Fairford, which saw the U.S. pull its bombers out of the base and return them to America. A major incident was declared after three suspicious vans were seen near Fairford, which led to eight arrests. Two British nationals appeared in court in October in connection with an alleged plot connected to Iran. U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s spokesman said: “The U.S. is one…
By Dogyu Lee & Euronews Doha bureau Published on 10 November 2026 – 11:48 GMT+1 Japan agreed on Monday to give the Philippine military a coastal radar system and surveillance drones to help it track ships, in a grant worth 4.3 billion Japanese yen (€24 million). Philippine Foreign Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro and Japan’s ambassador Katsuro Kitagawa signed the agreement in Manila. The radar will go to the Philippine Navy and the drones to the Air Force. Japan’s foreign ministry said the equipment would also help protect shipping routes important to Japan, including those through the South China Sea and the…
By Angela Barnes with AFP Published on 10 November 2026 – 14:08 GMT+1 Germany’s chip giant Infineon said on Tuesday that the rapid buildout of AI data centres would not slow down despite growing resistance in the United States, even as it predicted the backlash would likely spread to other countries. There has been increased opposition to the environmental and energy costs of the sprawling sites in the United States, with many Democratic winners in the recent midterm elections vowing to put a brake on the projects. Jochen Hanebeck, chief executive of the German giant that has benefited from making power chips used…
Published on 10 November 2026 – 10:38 GMT+1•Updated 13:02 Denmark is pouring another 500 million DKK (approximately €67 million) into one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, backed by pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk Foundation, under plans announced on Tuesday. The funding will support its supercomputer Gefion’s infrastructure and operations at the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI), which runs the machine, according to an announcement from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark. Further details of how the funding will be used and when the additional capacity will be available have not been revealed. Denmark launched its supercomputer Gefion in…
Before the teams from Ukraine and Russia met, preparatory talks took place in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday morning involving European powers, Ukraine and the U.S. team. Two officials familiar with these discussions, granted anonymity to discuss confidential matters, said these first talks were substantial and the mood was positive. The topic of Europe’s future security architecture is acutely sensitive for European governments, who fear that President Donald Trump may be preparing to radically reduce U.S. support for security in their region, after years of bashing NATO allies. Russia has been demanding a say over scaling back NATO’s efforts in Europe…
Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a deadly multi-vehicle pile-up on a highway in southeastern Bulgaria, where 11 people were killed and dozens injured, according to state media. The crash involved dozens of vehicles and occurred in thick fog near Yambol, on the highway connecting the capital Sofia with the Black Sea city of Burgas. Images from the scene show extensive vehicle wreckage scattered across the road, as emergency vehicles arrive to respond to the incident.
A €232m ($260m) wind power project in western Uzbekistan is nearing completion, combining electricity generation with large-scale battery storage in what the Asian Development Bank (ADB) describes as a first for Central Asia. At Nukus 2, 25 of the 26 wind turbines are already generating electricity, while the battery system is undergoing commissioning. The technology is designed to address a challenge increasingly facing electricity networks around the world, including in Europe: how to balance supply and demand as wind and solar power expand. The facility, located in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic in northwestern Uzbekistan, is being developed by Saudi energy…
Eliminating the use of regional languages — such as Catalan, Basque, Valencian and Galician — during debates in the Spanish Congress might be an easy policy to implement for a PP-Vox administration. It would also, according to Oriol Bartomeus, director of Barcelona’s Institute for Political and Social Sciences, be “a declaration of war” for separatists. Álvaro, of the pro-independence ERC, sees a prototype for what PP and Vox would be likely to do once in government in Valencia and the Balearic Islands, where the two parties govern together and have introduced measures aimed at reducing the use of those regions’…