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By Ema Gil Pires & Euronews Published on 16/10/2026 – 13:08 GMT+2 Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas announced on Thursday that he intended to suspend the shared e-scooter scheme in the Portuguese capital. In a video posted on his social media, Moedas called the scheme a “disgrace” and said it was “not working.” “This is a disgrace and it is going to stop. The system as it stands is not working. Scooters are being ridden the wrong way down streets, people are behaving dangerously, accidents are on the rise, and scooters are being left abandoned in public spaces,” he said in the video. Moedas…
By Serguei Doubine & Euronews Russian Published on 16/10/2026 – 12:18 GMT+2 Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the compulsory seizure of Russian assets belonging to French flooring manufacturer Tarkett and four other European companies, whose combined annual revenue exceeds 50 billion roubles (€532 million). The assets have been placed under the interim control of a management company called Centre Capital, registered in February 2026. Its chief executive is listed as Marat Mirkhaydarov, former head of the administration of the regional governor of Zabaykalsky, who stood down in 2025 following an injury sustained in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. The…
Published on 16/10/2026 – 12:25 GMT+2 After causing an uproar among mathematicians, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is donating millions of dollars to a maths foundation. The move comes days after the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) slammed the artificial intelligence company and alleged plagiarism for solving a decades-old math problem. In September, OpenAI said an unreleased AI model had cracked a major result on the Navier-Stokes equations, which apply Newton’s second law of motion to fluids, a problem that has stumped mathematicians for almost a century. But, according to TechCrunch, two human mathematicians say they were close to a similar result,…
Been dreaming of a life abroad, but haven’t decided on where to go yet? Then you might just want to take a look at this new ranking. Produced by Nomad Capitalist, the Nomad Lifestyle Index evaluated 63 destinations against five pillars: Nature and climate; tax; residence and access; safety and freedom; and quality of life and infrastructure. Within these pillars, the ranking looked at things like air quality, extreme weather risk, routes to legal residence and citizenship, the Global Peace Index, life expectancy, cost of living and broadband speed, among others. After crunching the numbers, the top 10 is filled…
Published on 16/10/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2 After charming thousands of visitors and turning into genuine social media celebrities, the cats that live inside the archaeological area of Pompeii have now become the stars of a photographic book dedicated to them. The book, entitled Cats of Pompeii, is published by Giunti Editore in collaboration with the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Richly illustrated, it tells the stories of the everyday life of the feline colony that inhabits the UNESCO World Heritage site. The volume grew out of photographs donated to the Park by archaeologist and photographer Silvia Vacca and offers a journey into…
Removing a Lib Dem leader remains reasonably easy — though a crunch meeting of the parliamentary party on Tuesday suggests there currently aren’t enough MPs to actually trigger a ballot of no confidence, let alone win one. Eighteen MPs (25% of the parliamentary party) would need to push for a vote of no confidence to be held. An absolute majority — 36 MPs — would then have to vote no confidence in Davey for a leadership election to be triggered. Davey could stand in that leadership election if he could secure nominations from 10% of Lib Dem MPs and 200 members from…
Published on 16/10/2026 – 11:48 GMT+2•Updated 11:56 Italy extended its temporary border checks on arrivals from Spain by just seven days on Friday, in a sign of thawing relations between Rome and Madrid after weeks of tensions over migration. The decision followed a one-on-one meeting between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels, a diplomat told Euronews. The border checks were initially introduced on 1 August for one month, following the arrival of almost 90,000 irregular migrants in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The Italian government subsequently…
Iran targeted at least 24 commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz in a two-week period, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Thursday, as two US aircraft carriers operate in the Arabian Sea and officials on both sides issue public warnings of a possible return to large-scale hostilities. Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a Royal Navy body that monitors merchant shipping safety, reported at least seven further incidents between Monday and Wednesday. The Washington-based think tank said the attacks show Iran still retains the ability to target shipping despite US strikes on its military infrastructure, and…
The global economy has held up better than Kevin Warsh would have predicted earlier this year, the US central bank chief said on Friday, calling AI the biggest economic shift he had seen. Speaking in Bangkok at the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, Warsh offered no clue on the Federal Reserve’s next rate decision, due on 28 October. Almost everywhere, the economy is showing a resilience “I’m not sure I would have predicted five or six months ago,” Warsh said in a discussion on stage with IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva. The Fed chair was most upbeat…
The football chief said he was sorry “for the mistakes that we made,” but reminded that his project was only a proposal and “in no way a done deal.” Listen AI generated Text-to-speech