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Social media posts claim that Denmark deliberately played the song “Send in the Clowns” before US President Donald Trump joined Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen for a deal-signing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The claim was shared on X, Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. On X, for example, one post garnered more than 1.3 million views. The clip shared shows a camera’s close-up on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio while the song’s lyrics include the line: “Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Don’t bother, they’re here.” While most…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 5:51 GMT+2 Pope Leo XIV said on Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on. The pontiff, who dedicated his first encyclical to AI and protecting humanity in its wake, was asked during a press conference about what the United States and China especially should be doing to prevent AI from posing catastrophic risks to humanity. US President Donald Trump has struck down concerns about AI, its rapid pace of development and potential…
“The public now often looks to Europe for overseas alliances, particularly as the U.S. is increasingly perceived as at best unreliable and at worst adversarial,” said Seb Wride, head of polling at public research company Public First, which conducted the poll for POLITICO. “But it’s not straightforward for the government. ‘Getting closer with Europe’ is not the same as ‘reversing Brexit,’ and Burnham will have a challenging needle to thread to appease his pro-European wings without reopening wounds the public would prefer stayed closed.” The Brexit referendum a decade ago divided the country, cost two prime ministers their jobs and…
Hungary’s parliament lifted the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers under nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orbán on Monday, so they could be investigated in separate criminal cases. The probes against the Orbán-era ministers, who are suspected of corruption worth millions of euros, are the first graft investigations against top government figures from the former PM’s 16 years in power. Magyar, who is being probed separately for alleged theft, specifically asked for his immunity to be lifted so he could clear himself of “character assassination.” Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of lifting his immunity and that of former…
A couple of months earlier, a parcel — which turned out to contain a bomb — caught fire at DHL’s depot at Leipzig/Halle Airport. The perpetrators of this event, too, were later found to be working for Russia. And a few months before that, German authorities uncovered a Russian assassination plot against arms manufacturer Rheinmetall’s CEO. You all know about these cases, not just because I’ve written about them on these pages but because they were so brazen. And Germany is not the only country to see all manner of businesses — and even business executives — targeted by geopolitically…
Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Lithuania, said his country expects hybrid attacks by Russia to be “mitigated by the Allies”, as there is “so much Lithuania can do”. Landsbergis is aware that Southern European countries such as Spain have “different mentalities” when it comes to how they perceive Russian threats. Something that, for Northern Europeans, might be “very difficult to understand”, as for Lithuanians, it is an “existential threat”.
Biletskyi said the Third Corps deceived Russian forces into believing the main Ukrainian thrust would come toward Shandryholove and Zelena Dolyna, drawing Russian reserves into counterattacks there while Ukraine struck toward Nove. “This led them to senselessly burn through their reserves in counterattacks in that very sector. The Russians missed the real strike,” Biletskyi added. According to Bielieskov, the result undermines Russia’s theory of victory, which he said “hinged precisely on attempts to turn local advances in the Donetsk region into strategic successes.” He added: “The goal was to create the impression Russia would inevitably capture the Donetsk region, thereby…
Emmanuel Macron will ultimately attend the mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV this Monday in Metz, the final stop of the pontiff’s apostolic visit to France. According to the Elysée Palace, the French president will also take part in the official farewell ceremony. Macron was initially only scheduled to attend the Pope’s morning address on Europe and peace in Metz, in northeastern France. The Elysée Palace said late on Sunday that he had “rearranged his schedule” to also attend the mass at Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Metz. The French president did not attend Friday’s mass at Notre-Dame de Paris or Saturday’s…
However, he said that the party has “reverted to type” since it won control of the Welsh parliament, known as the Senedd, from Labour in May after 27 years in power. Labour has controlled the Welsh government since the introduction of devolution in the late 1990s. Kinnock said he believes Plaid Cymru’s “mask has slipped,” after its Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth met Scottish First Minister John Swinney and Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill earlier this month to discuss greater cooperation on achieving independence. Opinion polling since Andy Burnham became prime minister in July suggests currently no one party would…
Published on 28/09/2026 – 14:11 GMT+2 Ukraine has cut its $27 billion (€23.7 billion) funding shortfall to $20 billion (€17.6 billion) through austerity measures, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said on Sunday, although he warned that it “remains an open question” how to plug the remaining gap. The spending cuts will affect areas including road repairs and cultural projects, while military salaries will be protected. “We are looking for optimisation and redistributing available sources to set priorities. The armed forces are the top priority for all of us,” Koretskyi said in an interview with the TSN news outlet, stressing that military…