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Cheers, car horns, and chants echoed through the streets of New York City on Tuesday night as residents celebrated Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral victory. Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic assemblymember, has been elected mayor of New York City, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. The democratic socialist’s victory marks a historic moment as he becomes the city’s first Muslim, first South Asian, and first Africa-born mayor. Mamdani, known for his progressive platform, will also be New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on 1 January.
Forty years after Charles Saatchi first opened his doors to a then-disused paint factory in north London, the Saatchi Gallery remains a benchmark for contemporary art – a space where the new, the daring and the downright unexpected collide. Its latest exhibition, The Long Now, is both a celebration of that legacy and a statement of intent for the future. Spread across nine huge, carefully curated white-walled rooms, over two floors, The Long Now is a breathtaking mix of the physical and the digital, and of artists both acclaimed and newly emerging. Curated by former Senior Director Philippa Adams, it…
The draft agreement also seeks changes to existing green legislation. Responding to a demand from Italy, countries will demand that “zero- and low-carbon fuels” continue playing a role in “road transport,” a reference to weakening the bloc’s 2035 combustion-engine phaseout. To appease Poland, the draft deal also calls on the Commission to postpone the introduction of a new carbon tax on transport and heating fuels — key to meeting the bloc’s existing 2030 climate target — by one year. The text also suggests heavy industry be given free pollution permits under the bloc’s carbon market for longer than planned. A deal…
Updated: 05/11/2025 – 8:19 GMT+1 Zohran Mamdani spoke directly to Trump as he celebrated his win in the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night, telling the Republican, “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.” … More
In a push to ease these concerns, Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde each stressed the geopolitical benefits of joining the euro. “Bulgaria is joining the euro … at a point when there is more volatility, at a time when we have more shocks, one after the other, compounded, and at a time where the global order, as we have known it, is more fragmented, and when friends are probably fewer,” said Lagarde, adding: “It’s important to close ranks and to be together.” Lagarde said that during the financial crisis, the single currency had proved…
A fire at a boarding house for retirees on Tuesday in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla left at least 10 people dead, an official and Bosnian media said. According to local reports, at least 10 people were killed when the fire erupted on one of the higher floors of the building, and some 20 people have been hospitalised so far, but many more people are likely injured. Prime Minister Nermin Nikšić described the fire as “a disaster of enormous proportions,” while a spokesperson for the Tuzla University clinical centre, said several people were being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning,…
By Yaël Ossowski, EU Tech Loop with Euronews Published on 05/11/2025 – 7:01 GMT+1 One of the key fighters for European’s privacy – a former MEP, Patrick Breyer wrote last Thursday that Denmark has updated the European Union’s chat control proposal, opting to mandate a voluntary search for sensitive material in private chats, instead of general monitoring. “Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats (“detection orders”), the searches would remain voluntary for providers to implement or not, as is the status quo,” he said. Breyer further writes that three major problems remain unsolved: the proposal still does not follow…
YORKSHIRE, England ― The vast Drax power station in north Yorkshire helps keep Britain’s lights on. The Labour government is just the latest administration to pour subsidies worth billions of pounds into the plant, which burns tons of imported wood pellets every year to generate a big slice of the power the country needs ― a crucial role after global energy markets were upended by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Drax’s bosses also claim that, because their biomass operations are deemed climate-friendly, ministers will miss their net zero goals without it. Yet its critics are growing in number and volume. …
Recherchen von Pauline von Pezold zeigen, wie eng die AfD inzwischen mit Trumps Republikanern vernetzt ist. Regelmäßige Reisen nach Washington, Einladungen an Trump-Berater und eine gezielte Kampagne gegen CDU und Bundesregierung: Pauline erklärt, wie die AfD in den USA Einfluss sucht, um sich als politisch verfolgte Bewegung zu inszenieren und Druck auf Berlin aufzubauen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Beatrix von Storch, AfD-Vizefraktionschefin, über ihre Kontakte in die USA, den Umgang mit Trump und die Idee, Deutschland solle seine Interessen künftig allein statt über die EU vertreten.Danach geht es mit Rasmus Buchsteiner um den bevorstehenden Deutschlandtag der Jungen Union. Die Jugendorganisation attackiert…
But for the U.S. pharmaceutical company — which shelved its planned facility meant to support early-stage life sciences businesses with lab space, mentorship and potential financial backing — the proposal alone is not enough. “I don’t think we have heard enough to say that we are willing to get the Lilly Gateway Lab started,” Patrik Jonsson, president of Lilly’s international business, which covers all markets outside the U.S., told POLITICO. “I think once we see the right signs from the U.K. government, we’re more than happy to restart those discussions, and we could move quite quickly,” Jonsson said. However, “we…