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Published on 01/09/2025 – 6:52 GMT+2 •Updated 11:14 More than 800 people were killed and 2,500 injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, the Taliban has said. Numerous villages were destroyed as a result of the natural disaster, which affected an area close to the border with Pakistan. The earthquake occurred at 11:47 pm local time on Sunday, around 27 kilometres northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, according to the US Geological Survey. Another 4.5 magnitude quake hit the same area around 20 minutes later. The Kunar Disaster Management Authority said the…
Europe is sitting on a paradox. On the one hand, the continent faces enormous investment needs—from financing the green transition and upgrading infrastructure to supporting innovation and competitiveness against global rivals. On the other hand, European households hold trillions of euros in savings, much of it sitting passively in bank deposits that yield little and do very little to power growth. A new Bruegel working paper, Plugging Europe’s Investment Gap: Understanding the Potential of Leveraging Institutional Investors, examines this mismatch through the lens of Europe’s institutional investors, namely insurance companies and pension funds, also known as ICPFs. These institutions sit…
“We really don’t want to see a split between the parliamentary Green Party and the extra-parliamentary Green Party, that would make no sense at all,” they added. “I don’t think anyone is really hoping that that’s the outcome of this. I’m pretty sure the party will pull together.” What a difference a year makes It was all very different just 12 months ago. Cheerful Greens quadrupled their number of MPs to four in the 2024 general election, their most successful result ever. “The mood is entirely jubilant,” Polanski told POLITICO at last fall’s party conference. By this summer, the leadership contest…
By Euronews Published on 01/09/2025 – 12:15 GMT+2 Yemen’s Houthi rebels arrested at least 11 United Nations staffers on Sunday in the capital Sanaa and the western city of Hodeidah, two of the Iran-backed group’s strongholds, the UN envoy to the country said. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched a wave of arrests after the prime minister and other senior members of government were killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday. “I condemn the new wave of arbitrary arrests of UN staff members made in Sanaa and Hodeidah by (the Houthis) as well as the break-in at UN premises and the seizure of…
Leading European stock markets were propped up by good corporate news on Monday, as investors across the world are awaiting more news on the US tariffs, freshly knocked down by a US appeals court. Monday is Labor Day in the US, so Wall Street remains closed after the weekend. Right after midday in Europe, the London FTSE 100 was up by more than 0.2%, the DAX in Frankfurt gained 0.37%, and the CAC 40 in Paris was also rising by a modest 0.2%, following the news that France’s manufacturing sector started expanding in August, the first time since January 2023.…
Getting national leaders involved is a risky move, however. While the target only needs a qualified majority to pass a ministerial vote, agreement at the level of leaders would require unanimity — meaning all EU countries, including skeptics such as Hungary and Poland, would need to back the goal. And with the European Council not due to meet until late October, waiting for the leaders’ verdict would delay agreement on the target. This delay could in turn force the Commission and Denmark, which is currently steering talks among governments on the issue, to consider decoupling the 2040 target and the EU’s…
By Euronews Published on 01/09/2025 – 13:41 GMT+2 A Holocaust memorial in the southern French city of Lyon was vandalised on Saturday, with the words “Free Gaza” scratched into the marble. Lyon’s Mayor Grégory Doucet denounced the vandalism as an “intolerable act” in a statement on Monday. He slammed the damage to the memorial, which stands outside the train station used to transport hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps, and said those responsible would be “pursued and prosecuted.” Lyon “continues to stand firm against hatred, antisemitism and racism,” Doucet added. The three-metre tall memorial was only inaugurated in January to…
Published on 01/09/2025 – 14:17 GMT+2 Rhode Island has kicked off a fresh round of chatter in America’s heated housing debate after enacting a new annual levy on expensive second homes—quickly nicknamed the “Taylor Swift tax”. The idea is simple: ask wealthier, non-resident owners to chip in more and use the cash to support housing for others. The measure forms part of the 2026 state budget. From July 2026, a non-owner-occupied property in Rhode Island valued at more than $1 million (€853 thousand) will face an extra charge each year of $2.50 (€2.13) for every $500 (€426) of value above…
MLex first reported the story. The move to hold fire on hitting Google comes amid increasing fears in Europe that Trump is ramping up more pressure on Europe after striking a one-sided trade deal in July. He is now threatening to “impose substantial additional Tariffs” and stop selling tech and chips to countries with digital rules he deems discriminatory to American companies. The EU executive’s antitrust decisions are led by Competition Commissioner Ribera but need to be signed off by the whole College of Commissioners to be formally adopted. It is unusual for a commissioner who is not in the…
Published on 01/09/2025 – 15:05 GMT+2 A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician and a former speaker of the parliament Andriy Parubiy has been detained, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday. “The suspect has given an initial testimony. Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder,” Zelenskyy said on X. “Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder. The entire law enforcement team and the prosecutors are working around the clock,” he explained. Head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in the Lviv region Vadym Onyshchenko…