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Published on 28/10/2025 – 16:58 GMT+1 •Updated 16:59 Apple’s stock reached new heights on Tuesday, trading above $269 a share and pushing the company’s market capitalisation to a record $4 trillion (€3.4tr). That followed stronger-than-expected demand for its latest iPhone 17. The Cupertino-based technology giant therefore joins the elite club with Nvidia and Microsoft, which both surpassed the same valuation earlier this year. Nvidia, the semiconductor powerhouse, became the first company in history to hit the $4tn milestone in July 2025. News of soaring AI investments and the firm’s strong profit outlook have continued to lift its share price since…
“This announcement only reinforces climate policy as a dividing line in our politics, rather than being the unifying issue it once was,” May told fellow members of the House of Lords. “And, for the Conservative Party, it risks chasing votes from Reform at the expense of the wider electorate.” May also lambasted the “villainization of the judiciary” by politicians “peddling populist narratives” and said this would “erode public trust in the institutions of our democracy and therefore in democracy itself.” Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, who narrowly lost the Tory leadership contest last year, used his conference speech earlier this month as a tirade against…
Nordic leaders have ruled out the idea of issuing common debt at the European Union level to provide a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine, insisting the money should come from immobilised Russian assets rather than national budgets. “I think, to be honest, it’s the only way forward and I really like the idea that Russia pays for the damages they have they have done and committed in Ukraine,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday. The project, known as a “reparations loan”, was blocked last week by Belgium, which holds the bulk of the frozen assets from the…
“Even for a small country, Lithuania, it is petty,” he said, adding: “We are not talking about any extraordinary smuggling.” The Belarusian strongman, who has cracked down on civil dissent in his country, is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Monday the balloons, used to smuggle cigarettes, were a “hybrid attack” and vowed to respond with the “strictest measures,” including shooting them down. She also did not rule out invoking NATO’s Article 4, which convenes the alliance’s member countries for urgent talks. Lithuania’s roughly 680-kilometer border with Belarus was temporarily closed pending a government meeting on Wednesday, which will likely result in it being shut indefinitely. However, diplomats and EU nationals…
By Euronews Published on 28/10/2025 – 14:53 GMT+1 Social media users are sharing a video that seemingly shows European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy and other Western leaders admitting to damning allegations that dogged their time in power. The video also features former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former US Presidents George W Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It is often shared with identical captions asking: “Do you ever wish Western leaders would be a bit more honest?” — a sweeping statement which points towards a disinformation sign. “Did I help bomb Libya…
Published on 28/10/2025 – 15:44 GMT+1 French senators criticised the Louvre’s security on Tuesday and called for improved measures following a brazen jewellery heist at the Paris landmark earlier this month. Thieves stole jewels valued at €88 million from the world’s most-visited museum on 19 October. It took them just eight minutes to pull off the robbery. The intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre’s façade, forced open a window, opened a breach in display cases and fled, according to French officials. The haul included a sapphire diadem, necklace and an earring from a set linked to 19th-century…
It’s the first formal challenge to the decision after Sweeney took up her role as one of three chief regulators at Ireland’s top data regulator this month. Her prior experience as a lobbyist for Facebook and WhatsApp reignited concerns that the regulator is too close to Big Tech. In response to the complaint, Commission spokesperson Guillaume Mercier said that “it is for the member states to appoint members to their respective data protection authorities.” The Commission “is not involved in this process and is not empowered to take action with respect to those appointments,” Mercier told a daily press briefing Tuesday. He emphasized…
It could range from €3 billion to €5 billion, depending on how much investors contribute. The investors invited to meet with the Commission on Tuesday are Danish investment company Novo Holdings, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, Spanish CriteriaCaixa and Santander, Italian Intesa Sanpaolo, Dutch pension fund APG Asset Management, Swedish Wallenberg Investments, and Polish Development Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, according to the planning note. The fund will focus on “strategic and enabling technologies,” the note read, including advanced materials, clean energy, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum technology, robotics, space and medical technologies. The Commission is seeking to address the issue…
The Netherlands on Wednesday will vote in a snap election, for the third vote in five years, in a parliamentary election that points to a win of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV), which is advocating an anti-immigration and nationalist agenda. Yet, the latest polls shows that the centre-left GroenLinks-PvdA (24 seats) and the centre-right Christian Democrat CDA (22 seats) are nearing the PVV’s 29 seats, signaling a tight result and no clear path to forming a government for Wilders even if he wins. The vote remains highly unpredictable as two-thirds of voters indicate they have not decided yet who they…
Over the course of a 53-minute address, Trump engaged in a lively back-and-forth with the soldiers and offered a mix of administration updates and bravado. He linked his administration’s trade agenda to what he described as a broader mission to keep American forces out of foreign conflicts. “When we don’t get you involved, it’s a good thing,” Trump told the sailors. “People want to get you involved, but we stopped a lot of those wars based on trade. They’re getting ready to fight, and we tell them: ‘No more trade with the U.S.’” And Trump touted news he said he’d received…