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Published on 06/10/2026 – 16:07 GMT+2•Updated 22:30 European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said she would take “all appropriate steps” against an MEP who sparked protests and criticism from fellow lawmakers in Strasbourg on Monday after throwing an Israeli flag to the floor. Although Metsola did not name the MEP, the lawmaker was identified as Rima Hassan. Her office confirmed that she had removed an Israeli flag during an exhibition commemorating the victims of the 7 October 2023 terrorist attack in Israel. According to parliamentary sources, she confronted Israeli artist Yaron Bob, who created the exhibition, accusing him of presenting a…
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Published on 06/10/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 Representatives from the European Commission and member states plan to discuss the suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in Siberia, Russia, as national authorities scramble to get a clear picture of the situation. A meeting of the Health Security Committee, which evaluates serious cross-border health threats, will take place on Wednesday morning in Brussels. The meeting was already scheduled, but the item has been added to the running order. “I can confirm the incident in Russia will be on the agenda of the Health Security Committee,” a Commission spokesperson told Euronews. The case revolves around…
The Commission put forth on Tuesday a comprehensive proposal that includes institutional “safeguards” that could strip new member states of voting rights up to 15 years after they joined the EU. The proposed measure is meant to avoid that regime change in a new EU country disrupts the EU decision-making process, and is accompanied by new suggestions on how to bring candidate countries closer to the Union. “I was criticised heavily when I first mentioned that I don’t want to see new Trojan horses in the European Union. This was still before the elections in Hungary. Today I can say…
Lithuania has taken a step towards removing a constitutional ban on nuclear weapons from its territory, bringing the Baltic state closer to the legal position of its neighbours as European allies debate how to strengthen NATO’s deterrence in the face of Russia. The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, voted 106-18, with six abstentions, on Tuesday to advance a constitutional amendment removing a provision that bars weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases from Lithuanian territory. The change still requires a second vote after a constitutionally mandated three-month waiting period. At least 94 of the Seimas’ 141 members must back it…
The task force will undertake work spanning financial services, energy infrastructure, transportation, agriculture and emergency services, per the charter, and will work with the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Trade Commission to outline its recommendations. The document also calls out two risk areas that have come under increased scrutiny in recent months: biosecurity and threats to the water supply. OpenAI recently threw its weight behind a slate of bills aimed at preventing AI models from exacerbating the threat of biological weapons, and rival lab Anthropic disclosed several incidents in which scientists in foreign countries…
In recent days, Ragozin said Russia is compelled to respond to assumed Western provocation with “brute force” on a podcast hosted by Aaron Maté of the Grayzone, a U.S.-based news outlet that is skeptical of Western support for Ukraine. “They always consider themselves as the underdogs and as the side that is being under constant pressure from the West, encroaching on its sphere of influence, on its strategic interests. It compels them to respond to hybrid actions, to clandestine actions, to sort of invisible actions that change the landscape in the former Soviet Union,” added Ragozin, in remarks that stirred…
By Anna Kirchheim with AFP Published on 06/10/2026 – 23:36 GMT+2 Swedish police say they shot an armed man outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm on Tuesday evening after receiving reports of a disruptive individual carrying a weapon. Police said officers responding to the incident opened fire on the man. “The man was hit and taken to hospital,” Stockholm police spokeswoman Susanna Rinaldo told AFP. She said his injuries were considered serious but not life-threatening. Rinaldo initially declined to specify the type of weapon involved, adding that the police operation remained ongoing but that there was no danger to the public. Swedish…
But she also made clear that renewal would not mean a fundamental change of political course. “Obviously it’s a renewed leadership,” Reintke said. “But we are also going to continue the line on engaging and fighting in this house for everything that we can achieve in the next two and a half years.” Ștefănuță, meanwhile, presented the new leadership as an attempt to broaden the Greens’ appeal beyond their traditional environmental agenda, pointing to younger voters and bread-and-butter economic concerns. He said the group had chosen to “invest in dynamism” and a leadership that takes seriously concerns such as “the…
Published on 06/10/2026 – 5:54 GMT+2•Updated 9:37 US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from a British airbase because of unspecified threats that he believed were linked to Iran. The Pentagon confirmed earlier that the bombers had left the RAF Fairford airbase – used by the United States to launch ‘defensive’ strikes on Tehran – even as the British government insisted the site was safe. “There were some threats,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “And rather than tempting the enemy – we’ll capture the enemy and beat the enemy,…