Author: staff
Bardella has hardly left Le Pen’s side since an appeals court on Tuesday upheld her guilty verdict for embezzling European Parliament funds and sentenced her to a year of house arrest — but, in a twist, shaved enough time off a lower court’s electoral ban that she’ll be able to run for president in 2027. Le Pen and Bardella visited the mid-sized town of La Flèche on Wednesday, where they shook hands, took selfies and answered questions about their joint campaign. Le Pen was all smiles and fielded most of the questions, while Bardella, more stone-faced, appeared to be adjusting…
“I think there’s a recognition he and his team will focus on domestic politics first,” said one U.S. official, granted anonymity like others in this piece to speak candidly. “It doesn’t feel like a ‘I must jet across to D.C. immediately’ tactic is imminent.” Senior observers — including Starmer himself — have warned that Burnham’s purported wish to focus on his domestic agenda above all else is not sustainable. “My own reflection is that you can’t divorce the international from the domestic,” Starmer said Wednesday, speaking from the NATO summit. Burnham sought to address this head-on in an op-ed in…
Updated: 09/07/2026 – 11:38 GMT+2 Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR representative in Brussels, believes it is key for the EU to ensure “nobody is returning to a possible situation of harm” when implementing the recently approved Pact on Migration and Asylum. … More
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 09/07/2026 – 11:07 GMT+2 Three months after their record-breaking flight around the Moon, the Artemis II astronauts were reunited with their Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, on Wednesday. Launched atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket in April, Artemis II was the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft and the first mission to send humans towards the Moon in more than 50 years. The last time the four astronauts saw the launch pad, the towering rocket had stood on it. “It’s a lonely place without that rocket on it,” said Reid…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News The Andy Burnham era of politics is fast approaching – and the prime minister-in-waiting has finally set out some of his priorities for government. As Labour leadership nominations open – with his last active challenger Al Carns officially stepping aside – Burnham’s path to power is now all but certain. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy dissect his blueprint for Number 10, with a specific look at: A foreign policy vision built around plans to “reindustrialise through defence” A rumoured UK tour of “overlooked communities” A promise to be more accessible and…
Published on 09/07/2026 – 10:17 GMT+2 The FIFA World Cup quarter-finals are about to begin, and as the pressure on each team ramps up, so too has the misinformation surrounding the tournament. AI-generated images, false claims and fake news reports have all spread online over the past couple of weeks, many with racist overtones aimed at European teams that have already been knocked out of the competition. For example, one TikTok video allegedly shows the Netherlands’ manager, Ronald Koeman, launching into a racist rant after Morocco knocked his team out on penalties on 30 June. The clip amassed more than…
Central banks risk keeping inflation above target if they lower interest rates too quickly, economists warn, as policymakers face a more difficult phase after years of elevated prices and repeated economic shocks. The warning came during the first Monetary Policy Dialogue in Tashkent, where representatives from the International Monetary Fund, central banks and academia examined how monetary policy should respond to uncertainty, inflation pressures and changing financial conditions. Athanasios Orphanides, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, said the post-pandemic period had exposed the cost of misreading inflation. “If we look…
By Una Hajdari with AP Published on 09/07/2026 – 9:58 GMT+2 Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than $9.1 billion (€8.4bn) to build its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada and its largest outside the United States. The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant being developed by a consortium that includes Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Ltd. Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish called the project “a big deal for Alberta,” saying the province had created a regulatory framework to attract data centre investment. Alberta has been courting hyperscale…
Sustainability: Maximize tokens per kWh Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has sent shockwaves through energy markets. In Europe, natural gas prices are up almost 50 percent from the end of February, while storage sites are expected to refill to just 76 percent of capacity by October — their lowest level since 2011 heading into winter. Meanwhile, increased AI use puts pressure on the energy grid; electricity consumption from European data centers is expected to increase by 49-187 percent to 2030. We must therefore avoid the perverse incentives of ‘tokenmaxxing’ and, rather, take a more frugal approach that seeks to…
Updated: 09/07/2026 – 9:38 GMT+2 “You cannot build Rome in one day.” Belgium’s Defence Minister Theo Francken joins Euronews’ Shona Murray for a special report live from the NATO Summit in Ankara, discussing Ukraine, Iran, NATO and Belgium’s largest defence investment in more than two decades. … More