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Paris City Hall has displayed large banners supporting France’s national football team ahead of their 2026 World Cup quarter-final against Morocco. The footage shows the façade decorated with ‘Paris avec les Bleus’ signs and banners in the colours of the French team as the capital shows its support before the game. The display in central Paris comes as Les Bleus prepare for a key World Cup fixture against Morocco on 9 July. Led by coach Didier Deschamps, the French side face a Moroccan team that has established itself as a strong competitor on the international stage. The city has previously…
South Korean chipmaker SK hynix, known for its high-bandwidth memory chips, is preparing to raise roughly $28 billion (€24.5bn) on Wall Street, a sum surpassed only by SpaceX’s record flotation last month. It is an extraordinary outcome for a firm that once survived on job cuts and asset sales. Pricing is due on Thursday, with trading expected to begin on Friday under the ticker SKHY. SK hynix is issuing 17.79 million new shares in the form of American depositary receipts (ADRs), each representing a tenth of a Seoul-listed share, and cornerstone investors including Baillie Gifford and funds run by Coatue…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that technical details still need to be agreed with the United States before Patriot air-defence missile production can begin in Ukraine. US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would allow Kyiv to manufacture them. “And now, after our agreement with the president, our teams…must agree on all the remaining technical aspects,” said Zelenskyy, answering a question on the Patriot system during a WhatsApp briefing with journalists. “We are working with our European partners to obtain additional missiles, as we do not yet have our own system, of course.” Speaking alongside Zelenskyy…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 21:05 GMT+2 A South Florida airport officially changed its name on Thursday to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. Signs for the Palm Beach International Airport have been removed, while new signage goes up. “Because an entire airport transformation doesn’t happen overnight, you’ll notice a combination of both our classic look and our new brand elements coexisting while traveling through the terminal over the next several weeks,” airport officials said in a Facebook post. “Trump Force One,” a Boeing 757 owned by The Trump Organisation, was the first plane to arrive at the airport under…
The District Court in Sosnowiec found the former activist guilty of spying for the FSB between February and August 2022. The prosecution said Rogov collected information on Russian dissidents living in Poland, Polish officials, university staff and organizations helping them settle in exile, illustrating how the Kremlin has expanded its espionage web inside exile communities across Europe. The court also sentenced Rogov’s wife, Irina Rogova, to three years in prison after finding she helped pass the information to Russian intelligence officers. Besides the espionage charges, Rogov was also convicted over allegations that he participated in a separate 2024 operation involving…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 Belgium’s drug problem is centered on one word: Antwerp. Europe’s second biggest port has become one of Europe’s main entry points for drugs from Latin America. Last year alone, Belgian authorities seized 55 tons of cocaine – but officials openly admit that much larger quantities likely get through, often in hidden shipments of bananas, frozen food or timber. Has Belgium lost control of the drug issue? Does Belgium risk evolving into a “narco-state”, as one senior Antwerp judge warned recently? Is Belgium at the frontline of an unwinnable European battle against the cartels? These…
Dozens of Santas, Mrs. Clauses and elves marched through the streets of Aalborg on 8 July as part of Denmark’s World Santa Claus Congress. The footage shows participants waving flags, greeting spectators and posing for photos before heading to a sculpture park, where they entertained children with balloon modelling, music and festive performances. The annual congress brings together professional Santas from Denmark and around the world to share ideas, exchange experiences and prepare for the busy Christmas season. This year’s event welcomed participants from countries including Japan, Norway, France and Australia.
The ETS, a cap-and-trade scheme designed to reduce the emissions of the EU’s most polluting industries by making them pay for each ton of carbon they emit, is subject to a review by the European Commission which is slated for release by President Ursula von der Leyen’s top team on July 17. Ten of Europe’s largest economies — including Poland, Italy, Czechia and Austria — are publicly campaigning for the policy to be gutted, arguing it harms industry and drives up bills. However, according to Rosencrantz, “a weaker ETS would be bad for the climate and bad for Europe’s competitiveness. Companies…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 18:07 GMT+2 EU finance ministers are expected to approve Hungary’s revised National Recovery Plan on Friday at the ECOFIN meeting, paving the way for Budapest to withdraw €10 billion in post-pandemic recovery funds once it fulfils all remaining conditions. For years, a large share of the recovery and cohesion funds earmarked for Hungary has been withheld by Brussels over concerns about systemic corruption risks. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April’s elections, campaigned on a pledge to unlock the frozen EU funds, and has since struck a political agreement with European…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 19:41 GMT+2 The world’s chemical weapons watchdog reinstated Syria on Thursday, noting a “significant change in circumstances” since the fall of Bashar al-Assad and “concrete steps” to dismantle his deadly stockpile of banned substances. In 2021, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) took the unprecedented step of stripping Syria of its voting rights after finding its air force had used nerve agent sarin and chlorine gas on its own people. But since al-Assad’s 2024 overthrow, the new authorities in Damascus have vowed to co-operate with the OPCW to destroy the chemical weapons the…