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Hundreds of people gathered on bridges in Iran to form human chains following a government call to protect key infrastructure. Footage shows crowds holding Iranian flags on the White Bridge in Ahvaz and on a historic bridge in Dezful. The move comes amid heightened tensions, after warnings from the United States over the conflict. The gatherings took place before Washington and Tehran announced a two-week ceasefire. Authorities had earlier urged citizens to take part in displays of support.

Officials believe the hacking group used the stolen data to conduct cyberattacks, information sabotage and intelligence gathering and focused on military, government and critical infrastructure targets. “The Russians tried their best to cover all vulnerable routers, while redirecting requests only to domains they were interested in. For example, *.gov.ua, or with names corresponding to Microsoft Outlook, military systems,” said a law enforcement official taking part in the joint operation, granted anonymity to disclose more details. Ukraine’s SBU said “the Russian special services paid special attention to information exchanged between employees and servicemen of state bodies, units of the Ukrainian Defense…

In an interview on Euronews’ flagship programme, MEP Marc Botenga (The Left, Belgium) welcomed the two-week ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement mere hours before the expiration of his ultimatum to Tehran. Yet Botenga was highly critical of the EU’s response to the crisis, telling Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today that the EU’s position had been “horrible”. “The European Union has done nothing, no diplomatic efforts whatsoever for a crisis that not only is violating human rights, is violating international law, but was also violating our interests,” said Botenga. The two-week ceasefire…

Published on 08/04/2026 – 9:37 GMT+2 North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday in its second launch event in two days, South Korea’s military said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles lifted off from North Korea’s eastern coastal Wonsan area and flew about 240 kilometres each in a direction toward the North’s eastern waters. South Korea maintains readiness to repel any provocations, backed by a solid military alliance with the US, the statement said. Seoul later said Pyongyang fired an additional ballistic missile toward its eastern waters without giving further details. The…

Trump is not always praising other people, but there is one exception – Mark Rutte. And as the NATO boss is set to visit Trump on Wednesday, your reporter wonders: could the US president one day say “bye, bye” to the alliance? Let’s take a look at what the actual rules say.

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Donald Trump macht einen Rückzieher. Ganz knapp vor Ablauf seines Ultimatums verkündete der US-Präsident eine zweiwöchige Waffenruhe mit dem Iran. Unter pakistanischer Vermittlung sollen ab Freitag Verhandlungen in Islamabad starten. Grundlage ist ein iranischer Zehn-Punkte-Plan, der Teheran schmerzhafte Zugeständnisse der USA abverlangt. Inklusive der weiteren Kontrolle über die Straße von Hormuz. Zusammen mit Jonathan Martin in Washington analysiert Rixa Fürsen, ob Trump hier wirklich den Sieg eingefahren hat, den er reklamiert, oder ob er schlicht vor den wirtschaftlichen Folgen seines Kriegs eingeknickt ist. Die Kraftstoffpreise in Deutschland steigen kontinuierlich. Eine Woche nach Einführung der „12-Uhr-Regel“ steht fest: Die Wirkung ist…

Published on 08/04/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Like sport, food, and fitness, music has quickly shifted from being a niche segment of the tourism industry to become one of the most popular reasons for why people travel around the world. Emerging as a key travel trend in recent years, so-called “gig-tripping” is on the rise, thanks to a growing number of international festivals and the huge success of world tours from the likes of Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Beyoncé and Oasis. These days, music fans don’t just want to book a ticket to watch their favourite acts in their home towns or…

Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran’s “whole civilization” shocked the world. On the podcast today, host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, POLITICO’s senior EU politics editor, discuss the European reaction as the conflict in the Middle East spirals. Plus, NATO chief Mark Rutte is in Washington to meet the U.S. president, but what does he hope to achieve with so little consensus within the alliance? Next, we obtained documents that reveal the extent to which Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán is deepening ties with Russia. An agreement signed between the two countries last year includes cooperation in a diverse range…

While Orbán flaunts his close ties with the Kremlin, his electoral rival, Péter Magyar, has argued this is an Achilles’ heel, accusing the government of “outright treason” over its ties to Moscow. The December summit in Moscow was the 16th meeting of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation (IGC), which according to Russian state media was launched in 2005. The commission has met on a roughly annual basis in either Russia or Hungary since then — with a break between the 14th meeting in November 2021 and the 15th in September 2024. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine…