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She was one of Afghanistan’s biggest stars. Then the Taliban returned to power and she fled the country. Now, Aryana Sayeed is taking her music and message across Europe – with one key difference: the audiences will be women only. Sayeed remains one of the most recognisable faces in Afghanistan, building a huge following as a singer, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, and from her time as a judge on The Voice Afghanistan and other major talent shows in the country. But when the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, her life and career changed dramatically. Unable to…
Three schemes account for the bulk of the government’s spending under the new plan. France will speed up payments under its “national solidarity” scheme designed to compensate for crop losses. It will be topped up to a total of €520 million, provided the country’s 2027 budget is duly adopted. An “agricultural recovery fund” of €235 million aims to provide targeted support for the hardest-hit and most vulnerable farms across the produce, cereal and livestock sectors. Finally, a targeted tax relief scheme on unbuilt land will cut €330 million in tax revenue for the state. The government is also considering extending…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 15:51 GMT+2 A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in central Kyiv on Friday afternoon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that it had targeted the head of the agency’s office. The drone hit the SBU’s central building on Volodymyrska Street, opposite St Sophia Cathedral and close to Kyiv’s Golden Gate area, as Russia continued its campaign of daytime drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital. “I spoke with the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Oleksandr Poklad. Unfortunately, a Russian drone struck the central building of the Security Service of Ukraine…
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On Sunday 6 September, the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) emergency flexibility measures will come to an end. Over the summer, member states were granted authority to temporarily suspend the collection of travellers’ biometric data through fingerprints and facial scans to ease congestion in exceptional circumstances. Industry bodies are now pushing for these flexibilities to be extended beyond September amid concerns of renewed border delays. Less flexibility at airports and borders The biometric system became fully operational across participating European borders on 10 April 2026, following a progressive rollout that began in October 2025. However, European authorities have had a vital…
By Romain Gutkind with AFP Published on 04/09/2026 – 12:35 GMT+2•Updated 15:01 The filmmaker died after suffering a medical problem while he was working in Arles, in the south of France, on a historical film project Culture minister Catherine Pégard paid tribute to him, saying in a tweet that he had “a taste for side roads, for borders that fade away, for lives we pay too little attention to.” Tony Gatlif made 25 films, including “Gadjo Dilo” starring Romain Duris (1997) and “Exils” (2004, best director award at Cannes). The filmmaker was fond of social stories and Gypsy culture. His films are notably…
POLITICO has previously reported that the far-right party is internally divided over Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Jordan Bardella, the National Rally president and a member of the European Parliament, leads the more pro-European wing of the party. Le Pen’s own views have been more pro-Russia; she has met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past and her party took a €9.4 million loan from a Czech-Russian bank with links to the Kremlin, since repaid. Bardella and Le Pen also differ on NATO, although both would break with French President Emmanuel Macron’s strong support for the alliance. Bardella wants to wait…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Tilos, a small Greek island, used to bury its rubbish on a hillside. The landfill kept growing. Wind scattered plastic across the beaches below. It’s a familiar problem for small islands. Residents and tourists produce waste, but shipping it elsewhere for recycling rarely makes economic sense. So most islands sacrifice a patch of scarce land and bury the problem. Out of sight, out of mind. A few years ago, Tilos tried something different. Working with Greek circular economy company Polygreen and backed by the Region of South Aegean, the island removed its street bins…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 11:57 GMT+2 An investigation into an Air India flight that dropped almost 300 feet last month has found that the plane suffered a temporary hydraulics failure. Flight AI2379 was travelling from Phuket, Thailand to the Indian capital of New Delhi on 4 August when the incident occurred. The Airbus A320, which had 137 passengers, six cabin crew and two pilots on board at the time, suddenly lost altitude while flying over Indian airspace, leaving 24 people injured. In a preliminary report published on Friday, India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said the aircraft detected a triple-hydraulic…
From plastic that pollutes water to a tool that helps clean it up. Researchers at Madrid’s Institute of Materials Science (ICMM), part of the CSIC, have developed flower-shaped iron oxide nanoparticles capable of capturing nanoplastics, fragments a thousand times smaller than a microplastic, derived from PET, one of the most common materials used in bottles, packaging and polyester clothing. The study has been published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. The secret lies in the shape. “Iron oxide is a magnetic material that allows many pollutants to be trapped at once. In addition, its nanoflower structure means that the particles have…