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Published on 29/09/2026 – 18:31 GMT+2 Frustration within the European People’s Party is growing over Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), with senior lawmakers urging the party presidency to consider suspending or expelling it from the EPP. Gathered in Toulouse for their political assembly on Tuesday, EPP senior members expressed deep concern over events at the funeral of Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, who died in late August aged 84 in a UN detention facility in The Hague. They concluded that state honours and the participation of senior Serbian officials at the funeral “cannot…
Tokyo has endured 34 consecutive days of rain, setting a new record for the city’s longest rainy streak, Japan’s weather agency said Tuesday. Footage from the Japanese capital shows pedestrians navigating heavy downpours under umbrellas, while rainwater covers the streets and vehicles move through the wet conditions. The previous record of the longest streak of rainy days in Tokyo was 33 between June 27 and July 29, 2019, said Kazuhiro Hirono, another JMA official.
The same went for a call by Jørgensen last week for consumers to reduce fuel use; national capitals would rather wait for central guidance from the Commission, according to a European energy official familiar with member-country deliberations who, like others cited in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak openly. Both O’Brien and Jørgensen also warned that it was important for such measures to be targeted and temporary to avoid uneven application that could distort the EU’s single market. The despair over energy costs lent an experimental air to the closed-door discussions held in the imposing Dublin Castle in the…
Ukraine has urged the European Union to tap into the immobilised Russian assets to help plug the country’s financial and military shortfall next year, which could hit a staggering $78 billion (€68.77 billion) if allies fail to step up their contributions. Sergii Marchenko, Ukraine’s finance minister, made the push on Tuesday as he met with representatives from international donors and financial institutions in Brussels. During the gathering, Marchenko argued that using the pool of Russian assets would be both a practical and fair solution to meet Ukraine’s extraordinary wartime costs, protect its debt sustainability and ensure accountability for Moscow’s aggression,…
The Iran war has put an “unbearable” strain on the global economy, Qatar warned on Tuesday, as it said meetings aimed at reaching a deal were continuing and Doha resumed its role as a mediator between Washington and Tehran. “How long can the international economy withstand the results of what is happening in our region?” Foreign ministry spokesperson Dr Majed Al Ansari said at a press briefing in Doha. Asked about the prospects for an agreement, Al Ansari said, “In any agreement, there are obstacles. Our role is to overcome the difficulties and try to bridge the gap between the…
By Etienne Paponaud with AFP Published on 29/09/2026 – 20:47 GMT+2•Updated 20:48 Car manufacturer Stellantis announced on Tuesday 29 September that it will halt production for between five and fifteen days in October at its plants in Sochaux, Rennes, Mulhouse and Poissy, citing industrial reasons. In Sochaux, in eastern France, the historic Peugeot plant, which builds upmarket SUVs, is to shut down from 23 to 30 October. “This decision is linked to insufficient availability of certain batteries intended for the long-range versions of our electric vehicles”, the company said in a statement. Stellantis says that vehicles produced at the plant are in very…
Estonia, the Russia-bordering NATO member, has a relatively small army — but as one of the world’s digital leaders, it is looking to make up for that with technology. Its defence industry is now building a wide range of cutting-edge military equipment, battle-tested in Ukraine and ready to scale up: low-cost, jamming-resistant drones, portable launch systems and sensors that spot threats in the sky. Euronews Next was invited to an undisclosed location near Tallinn to see a demonstration of these Estonian-made systems. KrattWorks showed how a single operator can now control a swarm of drones, each capable of carrying deadly…
This time Burnham has promised a care system “free at the point of use” with “no care charges paid out of your basic state pension,” modelled on the National Health Service that has existed since 1948. It would be built “as soon as possible” after a general election and include flexibility for its users, including to stay at home for longer if they wished. “We’re going to do it. We are going to do it,” he said. “A landmark policy as significant as the creation of the NHS itself, and utterly essential to securing its future.” But the funding to…
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The Catalan company Sateliot will place five new satellites into orbit this Thursday on board a SpaceX Falcon 9. With this mission, called Draconis, the company will reach a total of 11 satellites launched since it was founded and, by its calculations, will on average double the number of daily passes and halve the time it takes a satellite to return to fly over the same point. Lift-off is scheduled for 1 October at 20:18 (Spanish mainland time) from the Vandenberg base in California, as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission, although it could still shift at the last minute. The…