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“It’s like Fight Club,” a senior Reform figure involved in selections joked. “The first rule of parliamentary assessment center is you don’t talk about parliamentary assessment center.” Reform organizers are all too aware that some of their most careless picks at the last election cost them dear, considering allegations of racism and offensive comments harmed the campaign. To repeat the slapdash approach of old could be fatal to Farage’s chances of ever becoming prime minister. The party has set up a new vetting process run by Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy chairman, and candidate testers have already spent nearly 32…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:34 GMT+2 Russia launched 160 drones across Ukraine in overnight attacks, as well as one drone-launched cruise missile, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Meanwhile, Ukraine reportedly struck the Russian oil refinery in Saratov. A drone attack in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district left eight people injured after one nine-storey residential building caught fire, leading to its evacuation, according to police. The injured include a 64-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman who were being treated for burn wounds, as well as a 23-year-old woman with shrapnel wounds, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a young mother…
By Euronews Persian Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:10 GMT+2 Iran’s pharmaceutical sector is facing shortages of hundreds of medicines, a near-six-fold price hike for basic drugs and collapsing supply chains, as the war with the US enters its seventh month and the effects of sanctions and a naval blockade accumulate. The shortages include roughly 90 medicines classified as essential or life-saving, according to Iranian media. Hadi Ahmadi, spokesperson for the Iranian Pharmacists Association, told domestic media last week that around 400 of the scarce medicines are produced domestically — evidence that local manufacturing has not insulated the sector from disruption, because…
Tania Head was, according to her own account, one of 18 people who survived on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, the area located above the point where the second plane struck on 11 September 2001. She said that a dying man handed her his wedding ring so she could return it to his widow, that a volunteer with his clothes on fire helped her down the stairs, and that she lost her fiancé, David, in the North Tower. On the strength of that story, shewent on to chair the World Trade Center Survivors’…
Just yesterday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen publicly endorsed a proposed space project between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, with the three satellite makers looking to create a rival to tech trillionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink. It might not be as good, but at least it won’t be owned by a man who names his children by smashing his face into a keyboard. Alas, the name for the proposed European firms’ space venture is Bromo, which sounds like being told to wait a minute by a man who’s really into crypto. Von der Leyen was speaking at the International Space Summit…
The European Union needs to “pin down” the precise scope of Ukraine’s growing budget needs before deciding how to fill the gap, Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, who oversees support for the war-weary country, told Euronews. “We obviously need to do a proper, detailed assessment, but we understand that the war continues to rage at high intensity. If anything, Russia is intensifying its attacks,” Dombrovskis said in an interview recorded in Riga, Latvia. “Correspondingly, the economic situation in Ukraine is also very difficult. So we can understand that this may lead to higher financing needs for Ukraine,” he added. “There are…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:15 GMT+2•Updated 8:24 Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in New Delhi ahead of a meeting of BRICS group leaders, with global conflicts and economic challenges likely to set the tone for the weekend. Putin landed in the Indian capital on Friday, where he was greeted by Indian Minister of External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh and a welcome party flanked by photographers. The two-day summit is expected to see the 11-member organisation focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as oil and global trade. Chinese President Xi Jinping is also set…
Europe is facing a squeeze from two directions: more expensive energy and higher borrowing costs intended to contain the inflation that the same energy shock created. The European Central Bank raised its key three interest rates by 0.25% on Thursday, bringing the deposit rate to 2.5%. It is the second rate hike in three months, and the reason is visible on every forecourt in Europe. Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel on Wednesday as the conflict between the United States and Iran continued to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The pressure is arguably sharper in gas,…
Anthropic said on Thursday it had blocked attempts by malicious actors to misuse its artificial intelligence models for cyberattacks, surveillance and biological research that could have contributed to weapons development. As AI models grow more powerful, sophisticated cyberattacks increasingly require little technical skill, meaning even lone individuals can now create threats that would have been impossible just a year ago, the company said. Anthropic added that it has strengthened safeguards in its newest models to restrict biological research with potential weapons applications. “The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat…
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