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A teenager opened fire outside a high school in western Turkey on Tuesday, wounding 11 people before being detained by police, authorities said. The incident happened around 8 am local time (7 am CEST) in Turgutlu, Manisa province, near the city of Izmir, the regional governor’s office said. “Eleven students were injured, two of them seriously,” Justice Minister Akin Gürlek wrote on X. “The minor who carried out the attack was quickly apprehended and taken into custody,” he added. Gürlek said the suspect’s parents and grandfather had also been detained by investigators probing the attack, which saw police and rescuers…
The Czech government said on Monday that it would cap fuel retailers’ margins, cut excise duty on diesel and introduce a temporary tax on refiners as prices continue to rise because of the war in the Middle East. Czechia joins other European countries, including Germany, Croatia, Romania and Italy, that have recently announced or extended fuel-price controls and tax cuts as European governments seek to shield motorists from fuel prices, which reached record levels in the EU last week. In Czechia, it is the second such step by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s government this year, following price controls and a…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 10:53 GMT+2 Residents of a small Austrian town are taking on Google over plans for a data centre the size of around 70 football pitches. Around 400 people protested against the planned 50-hectare complex earlier this month outside the headquarters of the Upper Austrian regional government in Linz. Kronstorf, where the data centre is being built, has around 3,500 inhabitants. Construction works on Google’s first data centre in Austria began in April, with the first phase expected to become operational in 2027. The US tech giant says the centre will support growing demand for cloud and…
Jorge Palma, one of the most influential singer-songwriters in contemporary Portuguese music, died this Monday at the age of 76, his family announced in a message on social media. “It is with deep sorrow and consternation that Jorge Palma’s family and agency announce his death, which occurred this Monday night, at the age of 76, following a cardiorespiratory arrest,” the musician’s family said. In what they describe as a moment of “immeasurable pain”, Rita Tomé, the musician’s wife, his sons Vicente and Francisco Palma, and his agents, André Sebastião and Tiago Branco, asked that Jorge Palma be remembered through what…
In einer Zusammenfassung des Telefonats, das die Kommission auf ihrer Website veröffentlichte, hieß es dagegen, die EU und die Philippinen stünden erst „kurz vor dem Abschluss der Verhandlungen über ein Freihandelsabkommen“. Das deutet darauf hin, dass weitere Gespräche erforderlich sein werden, um das Abkommen mit allen Details abzuschließen. In einer separaten Erklärung schrieben EU-Handelskommissar Maroš Šefčovič und die philippinische Ministerin für Handel und Industrie, Maria Cristina Aldeguer-Roque, sie hätten eine „substanzielle Einigung“ erzielt, die das Abkommen „auf einen klaren Kurs in Richtung eines formellen Abschlusses in den kommenden Monaten“ bringen werde. Am Montag hatte Šefčovič einen geplanten Besuch in Manila…
French President Emmanuel Macron said he had “very constructive” talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump on the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. Macron spoke with Trump after arriving in New York ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. “We had a very good discussion. It was very constructive,” he told reporters after the meeting. Macron said there was a “willingness to reopen (the Strait of) Hormuz,” a vital shipping route for the world’s oil and gas, which has been blockaded by Iran during the war in the Middle East. “Several solutions were…
French President Emmanuel Macron walked through busy Manhattan streets on Monday evening as he headed to Trump Tower for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Accompanied by security and aides, Macron crossed the city on foot, passing police officers and greeting one with a handshake. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot was among his delegation. Macron and Trump met to discuss issues including Ukraine ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Published on 22/09/2026 – 10:02 GMT+2 An unusual travel trend is attracting attention on platforms such as TikTok and Reddit as well as in travel forums: holidaymakers are wrapping their passports in aluminium foil in an effort to protect themselves from digital data theft. The idea is driven by fears that criminals could skim sensitive information contactlessly as they walk past. Modern German travel documents contain a so-called RFID chip embedded in their integrated data card. On German passports, the wireless chip enables, according to the Federal Office for Information Security (source in German), fast and tamper-proof identity checks at…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2 LIGHTS, camera, action. In case you hadn’t heard, cinemagoers and Netflix subscribers are getting a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. QT didn’t want this to be his tenth and final film, according to the arbitrary rules that he’s set himself; still, he wrote a sequel to his 2019 film, which bagged Brad Pitt an Oscar for his portrayal of bad boy stuntman Cliff Booth. Directing duties have fallen on none other than David Fincher. The film takes place eight years after the events of Once Upon A Time… In…
The U.K.-EU summit mentioned by the prime minister was originally scheduled for July but was postponed after the change in U.K. premiership. Yet Brussels and London are yet to name a new date for the meeting amid wrangling over the EU’s protectionist Made in Europe measures and the vexed question of tuition fees for EU students studying in Britain. “We do have concerns about Made in Europe, which is something that could affect British industry and British supply chains,” Burnham said, adding that he would discuss the matter when he met with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the…