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One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company’s dependence on China while parrying acute political pressure from the White House. The handover ends Tim Cook’s 15-year run, replacing the operations specialist who built Apple’s supply chain with the engineer who built its hardware. Ternus, 51, joined Apple’s design team in 2001 and worked his way up to senior vice-president of hardware engineering, reporting to Cook. He leads the engineering teams behind Apple’s entire product line-up, including the iPhones that generate most of the company’s revenue. He gets barely a week to settle in, with Apple holding its annual…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 6:00 GMT+2 Spain’s top autumn destinations include the islands among their biggest attractions. Tenerife has become the most-booked destination for September, ahead of Rome and Paris, according to data from eDreams, one of the leading travel booking platforms. Palma de Mallorca, Madrid and Ibiza round out the top spots, while Gran Canaria also makes it into the most in-demand national destinations. Interest in travelling within Spain remains particularly high this month: the country accounts for 43% of bookings for September, well ahead of Italy with 11% and France with 6%. Bookings for September have also risen…

Iceland has voted no to restarting membership talks with the EU in a referendum held over the weekend. While the yes camp had hoped rising global geopolitical tensions might sway voters, the fear of losing control over Icelandic fishing quotas proved decisive. So what does this result mean for the EU’s enlargement ambitions? Nick and Zoya discuss. Next, defense and foreign ministers prepare to meet in Ireland this week to talk Russia sanctions, support for Ukraine … and overhauling the EU’s diplomatic arm.  And finally, move aside Italy, Greek coffee is making it big in Brussels. Do you have any favorite coffee shops in Brussels that we…

Trump said the agreement announced on Friday night would give the United States a stake in Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, a step towards his goal of extracting energy from the country after American forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges. Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, described the deal as a step towards economic recovery that will modernise the country’s oil industry. In a televised address to the nation late on Sunday, Rodríguez insisted Venezuela’s sovereignty is secure and said she wants the country to…

Kanzler Friedrich Merz bereitet nach dem gescheiterten Drohnenanschlag auf den Flughafen Leipzig/Halle eine beispiellos harte Antwort gegen Russland vor. Unter dem Motto einer womöglich weiteren „Zeitenwende“ stehen mutmaßlich neue massive EU-Sanktionen und der gezielte Kampf gegen die russische Schattenflotte auf dem Plan. Hans von der Burchard beleuchtet diese riskante außenpolitische Strategie mitten im hitzigen Wahlkampfendspurt im Osten und besonders in Sachsen-Anhalt. Die AfD warnt im 200-Sekunden-Interview derweil vehement vor einer vorschnellen Verurteilung Moskaus ohne handfeste Beweise. Der außenpolitische Sprecher Markus Frohnmaier wirft der Bundesregierung vor, bei internationalen Sabotageakten mit zweierlei Maß zu messen. Er fordert im Gespräch mit Rixa Fürsen…

Burnham has played down the jeopardy, but he also promised to “say what I feel.” He has the advantage of having seen his predecessor Keir Starmer try to please Trump, only to be hectored relentlessly on Truth Social. Like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni or Canada’s Mark Carney, Burnham may sense a political advantage in not kissing the ring. A visit will still tie him up in diplomacy, however; tricky for a man who wants to keep his focus at home rather than engaging in the geopolitical wrangling for which voters gave Starmer little credit. It will also come days before his…

In the Commission’s Berlaymont HQ, von der Leyen and her team are feverishly working on her State of the EU speech, to be delivered on Sept. 16. It’s when she will set out her plan for the years to come. After that, she’ll have to deliver. “Speeches are important. But it’s the actions that create legacy,” said Martin Hojsík, a vice president of the European Parliament from the Renew Europe group. “Europe has become more vulnerable economically, competitiveness remains a major challenge, social and regional inequalities persist, and too often her Commission has reacted to crises rather than anticipated them,”…

Published on 30/08/2026 – 23:33 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump lashed out at NBC journalist Kristen Welker on Sunday, threatening to report her to the FCC “for rebuke or punishment” over coverage of his candidate endorsements. “The Unpopular “Hostess” of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social account. “Recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the…

Published on 30/08/2026 – 22:52 GMT+2 The US military has carried out fresh strikes on Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz, the Associated Press reported, citing a US official. The unnamed official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) forces had been observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the Strait. In a statement, the IRGC confirmed strikes had hit Larak Island, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties, per Iran’s Fars news agency. It also warned that the attack would be “met with a retaliatory response.” The strikes mark the…

Published on 30/08/2026 – 21:14 GMT+2 US defence contractor Covenant plans to start producing medium-range missiles near Leipzig from 2027, according to sources, with up to 1,000 missiles a year thought to be possible. The plans could bring a previously little-known cruise missile into greater focus in Germany. But what is actually known about the new weapon? A reported range of more than 1,500 kilometres The missiles are expected to have a range of more than 1,500 kilometres, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. So far, however, few other technical details are known. According to sources, the missiles…