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Paramount closed its $81 billion (€72bn) purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, the companies announced on Tuesday, forming a new Hollywood giant called Skydance. The merger brings HBO Max, films ranging from “Harry Potter” to “Sinners”, and networks including CNN under the same roof as Paramount+, CBS and titles such as “Top Gun” and “The Godfather”. “Today is a historic day, not just for Skydance but for our entire industry,” CEO David Ellison, who will lead the company alongside his new co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, said in a statement. The deal further concentrates power in an industry already run by just a…
French artificial intelligence champion Mistral AI on Tuesday launched a public preview of a new frontier model that it says will be the most capable open-weight model developed outside China once its weights are released. The launch comes as the race over open-weight AI, in which a model’s parameters can be downloaded and run by anyone, has taken on a geopolitical edge. Chinese developers have set the pace, while many American companies, such as OpenAI, keep their most capable systems closed. Meanwhile, the debate over safety has grown since AI agents have been found to go rogue and hack websites.…
Handmade carpets covered the courtyard of one of Tashkent’s historic madrasahs as Italian fashion house Brunello Cucinelli presented its Fall-Winter 2026 collection in the Uzbek capital. Models walked across the carpets laid inside the Abulkasim Madrasah, while local music and performances accompanied the show. The setting was unusual for an international fashion presentation. A madrasah is a traditional Islamic educational institution, and the Abulkasim complex dates from the 19th century. Built on the site of an earlier architectural complex, it was expanded with a second floor in 1864. Today, it is a protected historical monument, but it is not simply…
Five British men were arrested on Sunday, 27 September, on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and preparation of a terrorist act, after police were alerted to three suspicious vehicles near the airbase. No improvised explosive devices were found in the vehicles, but investigators recovered a quantity of petrol. On Thursday, Counter Terrorism Policing arrested a 25-year-old British-Iranian man for the same offense as part of investigations. All six men were later released on bail. On Sunday, the Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the airbase. The following day, U.S. President Donald Trump told…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday a new “strategic dialogue” on European refineries, drawing attention to a growing vulnerability for the EU: its shrinking refining capacity, which has been declining since 2009. European refineries — which convert crude oil into refined products such as diesel or jet fuel — have been closing or reducing capacity for years as ageing plants became less profitable and demand patterns shifted. As a result, the European Union has become increasingly reliant on imports of finished fuels from places such as the disrupted Middle East, the less predictable United States and…
By Cagla Uren & Euronews Turkish Published on 06/10/2026 – 10:05 GMT+2•Updated 12:43 Turkey and Pakistan will undertake a “rapid deployment” of troops to Saudi Arabia as part of a new mutual defence alliance, the three countries said Monday, as the Gulf kingdom faces escalating attacks from Yemen’s Houthis. In August, the three countries signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, committing to come to each other’s aid if one were attacked. The pact unites NATO’s second-largest army, that of Turkey, with the Islamic world’s only nuclear-armed state, Pakistan, and the largest Gulf power, Saudi Arabia. Their representatives held an emergency meeting in Riyadh…
Buried deep in the ice at the South Pole sits a detector the size of a cubic kilometre, built to catch some of the most elusive particles in the universe. On Tuesday, the man who dreamt it up won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Belgian physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work that uses Antarctic ice to capture neutrinos from the far reaches of the cosmos. “This year’s prize is about ghostly messengers from space,” Ellen Moons, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a news conference in Stockholm.…
From Airstream caravans and Poké Ball-shaped hotels to Victorian water towers and cosy caves, there are plenty of alternatives to the bog standard bed and breakfast these days. And if you’re looking for unconventional options in Europe, you should be heading to France as it just topped a new ranking of the countries with the most unusual stays around the world. Produced by Holafly, the ranking looked at Airbnb listings around the world across eight property types: Caves, castles, treehouses, houseboats, windmills, lighthouses, earth homes, and domes. The number of each was added up by destination, and with a whopping…
“I won’t accuse you of perversity, others will judge, but it doesn’t look like your little operation is having an impact in the country,” he said. Le Pen, the front-runner in the race to replace Macron next year, let Bardella do most of the talking in his defense. For her, the event was an opportunity to cast herself as a responsible steward of the French economy as France’s debt continues to pile up, growth stagnates and borrowing costs rise. On Tuesday she promised €140 billion in net savings over the course of a five-year presidential term. “If investors only lend…
Spanish Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena has revoked the national arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont after Spain’s Constitutional Court endorsed applying the amnesty law linked to Catalan’s independence drive that culminated in a 2017 referendum. The decision removes one of the main legal hurdles to the former president of Catalonia’s regional government returning to Spain. Llarena’s move follows a Constitutional Court ruling in favour of former Catalan regional minister Dolors Bassa. Until now, the Supreme Court had refused to apply the amnesty, a 2024 law covering those prosecuted over the “procés”, to embezzlement connected to the bid for independence. The…