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By Massoud Salari & Euronews Published on 22/04/2026 – 13:59 GMT+2 Iran executed a man on Wednesday on charges of spying for Israel, the latest in a wave of executions that has reached record levels since the Iran war started on 28 February. The Tehran judiciary’s official news agency Mizan said Mehdi Farid had attempted to infect the internal network of a sensitive defence-related organisation on orders from Mossad officers. According to Mizan, he provided access for people outside the organisation by repeatedly connecting equipment via USB. Mizan said Farid, a former employee of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation from Arak, had provided the…
Eurostat data shows Italy’s deficit was 3.1 percent last year, 0.1 percentage points above the EU’s threshold, leaving the government in a so-called excessive deficit procedure (EDP) — a red flag that Brussels plants on offending countries until they rein in their spending sufficiently. Italy is set to overtake Greece as the most indebted country in the European Union by the end of this year. Rome had hoped to exit its EDP, a key priority for Meloni’s government, when the European Commission assesses whether governments are in line with the bloc’s rules for public spending and debt in early June.…
The New Retail Culture, the international event promoted by Fashion Link Milano —the platform bringing together the leading trade shows of the fashion system. The gathering marked a high-level opportunity to analyze emerging global retail scenarios, bringing together international buyers, industry professionals, media, and stakeholders for a direct exchange on the evolving dynamics of consumer behavior and distribution strategies. At the heart of the discussion was the transformation of retail from a mere point of sale into a contemporary cultural platform, where product, technology, processes, and lifestyle converge to create increasingly complex and meaningful experiences. In this context, the role…
Published on 22/04/2026 – 14:27 GMT+2 A court in Moldova sentenced oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison on Wednesday in a case linked to the disappearance of $1 billion (€850 million) from the country’s banking system. A former businessman, lawmaker and kingpin in the Democratic Party of Moldova, Plahotniuc fled Moldova in 2019, as he faced a series of corruption charges. That included complicity in the scheme that led to money disappearing from Moldovan banks in 2014, which at the time was equivalent to around one-eighth of the country’s GDP. He was extradited from Greece last year, after…
Kevin Warsh, the man nominated to lead the Federal Reserve, the world’s most important financial institution, told the US Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that he had made no secret agreements with the White House over interest rate policy, defending his professional integrity. He said he would act independently if confirmed to succeed Jerome Powell, despite continued public pressure from US President Donald Trump for lower borrowing costs. The question of that independence was put sharply to him during the hearing, when Republican Senator John Kennedy asked whether he would be Trump’s “human sock puppet”. Warsh replied: “Absolutely not.” His…
Published on 22/04/2026 – 12:52 GMT+2 The American technology company Palantir has raised several controversial topics, such as calling for national service, the moral duty of tech companies in defence, and implying that some cultures are inferior to others. The post on X, has been called a 22-point manifesto that has generated backlash online. The company says the post is a” brief” about the book: ‘The Technological Republic’ by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska. “Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in the post on X over the…
BRUSSELS — A descendant of the founder of Italian oil giant Eni wants to sue Giorgia Meloni’s government for using his family name in a major funding program investing across the African continent, the Italian press reported on Wednesday. According to the Italian daily La Stampa, Pietro Mattei issued a cease and desist letter to the cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last month requesting that his family name be removed from the government’s so-called Mattei Plan for Africa, a multi-billion investment program. Pietro, the nephew of Enrico Mattei who founded Eni in 1953, says the Meloni government’s policies…
There are cities where art travels through, and cities where it stops. Last week, Astana was one of the latter. For the first time, the Royal Danish Theatre, one of Europe’s oldest and most respected performing arts institutions, founded in 1748, performed in Kazakhstan’s capital, bringing with it nearly three centuries of stage tradition. The Royal Danish Theatre is known for preserving one of the clearest classical ballet traditions in Europe. That tradition is rooted in the work of August Bournonville, the 19th-century choreographer whose ballets shaped the identity of Danish ballet. His most famous work, La Sylphide, remains in…
Dans un entretien à POLITICO, le PDG de la première chaîne française, Rodolphe Belmer, appelle à réguler plus fortement YouTube, tout en desserrant la pression sur les acteurs audiovisuels traditionnels. Il balaye aussi la proposition de Mistral de rémunérer les créateurs via une licence globale. Apr 2 8 mins read
Pope Leo XIV condemned the “colonisation” of Africa’s mineral resources and the “lust for power” on Tuesday as he arrived in Equatorial Guinea, a country ruled by the continent’s longest-serving president who has been accused of widespread corruption. The pontiff arrived in the capital Malabo, for the fourth and final stop of his African tour, where crowds waited at the airport and lined the road to welcome the first pontiff to visit their country since Pope John Paul II in 1982. Pope Leo XIV arrived at the presidential palace in an open papal motorcade to the delight of cheering, flag-waving…