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The meeting follows discussions held last month in Miami and Oslo, involving largely the same group of participants. Pinho said Wednesday’s gathering would build on the talks in Miami, which were aimed at securing a lasting and sustainable peace in Ukraine. The EU will be represented by national security advisers and other senior officials, she said, without identifying specific participants. In the previous meetings, the EU was represented by Ursula von der Leyen’s head of staff, Bjoern Seibert. Pinho also declined to confirm who would attend from the American side, following questions about the possible participation of U.S. special envoy…
An Indian tourist was killed and a New Zealand national injured when two helicopters collided and crashed as they tried to land in Nepal’s Everest region on Tuesday, police said. “The 47-year-old Indian tourist died on the spot,” Nabin Raja Budhathoki, in charge of Solukhumbu District Police, told AFP. “The injured 53-year-old New Zealander has been airlifted to Kathmandu for further treatment,” he added. Arrangements were also being made to fly the body of the deceased to the capital. Both pilots survived. Small helicopters are widely used in the Himalayan nation to transport tourists, climbers and supplies, and to carry…
Global travel is forecast to reach a record 1.57 billion international overnight arrivals in 2026, with Europe’s arrivals expected to rise by 5% as travellers increasingly choose destinations closer to home. Despite conflict, higher airfares and cost-of-living constraints, international arrivals worldwide are set to increase by 2% compared with 2025, according to the WTM Global Travel Report 2026. Total visitor nights, including domestic and international travel, are expected to reach 23.9 billion. In-destination spending across both markets is forecast to rise by 9% to $7.8 trillion (€6.97 trillion). Released on the opening day of World Travel Market (WTM) at London’s…
The announcement follows dozens of supermarkets across Europe reporting disruptions to their refrigeration and freezing systems on Monday. Incidents were reported in at least six EU countries — Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia — with some retailers reporting that refrigerator temperatures had suddenly surged to as high as 50 degrees Celsius. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set up the Commission’s Security College in March 2025 to discuss strategic developments and threats to the EU’s internal and external security. Empty refrigerators are seen in a supermarket near Brussels following an IT incident on Nov. 2, 2026. |…
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Published on 3 November 2026 – 11:05 GMT+1 Lufthansa Group reported strong earnings for the July–September quarter on Tuesday, as higher revenue and cost-cutting measures more than offset higher fuel prices. The company’s adjusted operating profit rose by 6% year-on-year to €1.4 billion for the quarter, which includes the peak summer season. Revenue rose 9% to €12.24 billion, making it the group’s strongest quarter on record for revenue. “With rising revenues amid consistently high demand and strict cost discipline, we were able to more than offset the increase in fuel costs of approximately half a billion euros,” Lufthansa CEO Carsten…
A suspected cyberattack hit grocery stores across at least nine European countries on Monday 2 November, prompting the EU to warn of a deliberate attempt to disrupt the bloc’s food supply chain. Supermarkets in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden reported refrigeration problems that forced some retailers to discard food after temperatures rose overnight. The incident comes three weeks after a cyberattack disrupted French grocery stores and forced hundreds of outlets to throw away spoiled stock. No one has claimed responsibility for either incident. European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen said the bloc…
A new study ranking the world’s safest cities for travel in 2027 has seen Montreal in Canada take the number one spot and nine European destinations included in the top 15. Published by insurance company Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection, the list was compiled from an initial selection of 38 popular international and domestic cities for US travellers, alongside a survey of more than 1,500 people who were asked which of those cities they had visited. Travellers who had been to the 38 destinations were then allowed to rank them on a variety of safety measures using their firsthand insights. The…
Two other seats of the ECB’s executive board will also need to be filled next year, as Isabel Schnabel is joining the IMF in January and the central bank’s chief economist, Philip Lane, is set to end his term in May. At their next gathering on Nov. 9, eurozone finance ministers will discuss the candidates and the process to fill all three open posts of the ECB executive board, an EU official told POLITICO. However, the ultimate decision on the ECB President will be taken by the European Council, so heads of state and governments.The two frontrunners to replace Lagarde…
By Euronews Persian Published on 3 November 2026 – 11:19 GMT+1 Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Tuesday that any US strategic error would open “a new battlefield in the war,” hours after a US Air Force jet reportedly struck an IRGC missile system on Qeshm Island. Ghalibaf told parliament Iran was at its highest level of defensive readiness, and that responsibility for preventing further escalation rested with Washington. “The ball is in America’s court to prevent war,” he said. The remarks came after residents of Qeshm Island, Hengam and Bandar Abbas reported successive explosions and tremors overnight, according…