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Published on 13/10/2026 – 8:31 GMT+2 Lufthansa Group is boosting its Japan network for 2027, bringing back its Frankfurt-Nagoya route and adding a daily service between Frankfurt and Tokyo-Narita in response to a “strong increase in demand”. The group’s airlines – including Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, SWISS and ITA Airways – will offer up to 50 flights per week next summer to four Japanese airports: Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita, Osaka and Nagoya. The expansion follows a record year in 2025 for international arrivals in Japan, with the country welcoming 42.7 million overseas visitors, up 15.8% on 2024, according to the Japan National Tourism…

Published on 13/10/2026 – 7:22 GMT+2 A new cultural hub dedicated to African cinema and Black culture has opened its doors in London, with Nigerian media mogul Mo Abudu hoping to bring stories from Africa and its diaspora to a wider audience. EbonyLife Place London features a cinema, a restaurant and a boutique showcasing designers from Africa and its diaspora. The project aims to create a destination where visitors can experience different aspects of Black culture without having to travel abroad. For Abudu, the centre is the result of a long-held ambition to give African stories a permanent home in…

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News Reform is under pressure again – but could the coming weeks prove make-or-break for Nigel Farage’s party? With fresh undercover filming threatening to cause trouble and a crucial report into the £5m gift looming, how serious could the fallout be? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy also unpack the latest polling: is Kemi Badenoch enjoying a post-conference bounce, or are internal divisions across the political landscape reshaping the race? Elsewhere, the battle for the budget narrative is heating up, and Sam has some intel on why business leaders could be getting extra…

Jaume Sanpera, CEO of Spanish satellite operator Sateliot, believes Europe needs to “wake up” and avoid becoming dependent on two global power blocs. The industry, he argues, needs “a push” to help European tech companies become global champions. Sateliot, a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites, recently launched five new satellites. According to Sanpera, Europe “needs to have its own sovereignty in space”. In such a fast-moving industry, concerns over overregulation remain ever-present. However, Sanpera believes Europe has “its own values”, which must be reflected in AI and other technologies.

Spain’s royal couple are expected in Ceuta on Tuesday, 13 October, as the North African enclave continues to recover from an unprecedented migration crisis. On 30 and 31 July, more than 70,000 people crossed the border from Morocco, a figure approaching the city’s entire population of 80,000. Most returned within hours, but thousands remained in makeshift camps and emergency shelters for weeks. On Sunday, more than 350 police officers and soldiers took part in an operation to clear the last major informal settlement at El Guano, transferring its residents to reception centres. The crisis has exposed deep divisions in Ceuta,…

This is news that may go some way towards easing French anger. Thanks to the strategic reserves released by the government, diesel prices will fall by up to 18 cents per litre from Sunday 1 November. That means a cut “of around 10 euros for a full tank”, the prime minister promises. “Facing a crisis we did not choose, […] the state is shouldering its responsibilities,” Sébastien Lecornu said on X on Monday 12 October, after a meeting with fuel distributors. “This reduction will also feed through to the price of domestic heating oil, to diesel sold to transport professionals…

South Lake Tahoe in California has just been named Expedia’s 2027 Destination of the Year, with searches up 195% compared to 2025. North America’s largest alpine lake offers skiing in the winter and kayaking or paddleboarding come summer, making it a perfect year-round destination. The 10 destinations chosen by the group in its Unpack ’27 trends report span North America, South America, Asia and Australasia – with only two in Europe. Hyogo in Japan claimed second place, with searches up 95%. The prefecture, which is “one of Japan’s most unsung destinations with coastline, mountains and castles in one stretch”, was…

Still, two-thirds of Spaniards in the survey said they expected Ceuta and Melilla would still be under Spanish control in 20 years’ time. The bloc is now discussing emergency measures to deal with mass movements that may be engineered or weaponized, but both the Commission and ministers have connected that emergency response framework to the role of smugglers and criminal networks. For Spaniards, the idea that Morocco could engineer a situation to annex Ceuta and Melilla is far from theoretical speculation. Many still remember Morocco’s 1975 “Green March,” an operation mobilizing tens of thousands of civilians to force Madrid to…

The European Security Council would fast-track traditional EU bureaucratic gridlock during security emergencies. Under the proposal, it would rely on what European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called a “counter-hybrid playbook” to address grey-zone hostile actions. In her 2026 State of the Union address, she explicitly said that these new mechanisms are meant to be “fully aligned” and “complementary” to NATO rather than replacing it. And speaking at Euronews’ Defence & Space Summit, EU defence chief Andrius Kubilius said the ESC would “not [be] against NATO” but be “exactly the opposite”. “It is how to make Europe stronger, which…

Hurricane Simon battered Mexico’s west coast on Monday with powerful winds and torrential rain, after several weather systems left at least five people dead and caused widespread damage to property in Pacific coastal communities. The eye of the Category 2 hurricane has remained offshore, although its outer bands have lashed communities located between the Sierra Madre and the Pacific Ocean, near Puerto Vallarta. In the state of Baja California, rescue teams have continued searching for missing people in the coastal city of Ensenada, where floods have swept away vehicles and damaged homes. At least four people have died as a…