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Published on 27/10/2025 – 11:17 GMT+1 Veronika Blyzniuchenko had recently been in Portugal when she heard a bird singing. It was a blackbird: “I heard a marvellous song, but I didn’t know which bird it was. When I met the blackbird, I started including it in all the gardens I paint. For me, it’s a bird that represents the peace I find here.” Already a well-known artist in her country, Veronika left Kharkiv, Ukraine, for Portugal just ten days after the outbreak of war sparked by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was one of the collectors of her…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an address late Sunday that the situation in Pokrovsk was “difficult” and fighting was “fierce,” adding that success in the strategically-located city is “critically important.” On Friday, Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, said Kyiv, Moscow and Washington were “quite close” to a deal on a ceasefire, after Zelenskyy said freezing the war along the current frontlines was “a good compromise.” Kyiv and its European allies want U.S. President Donald Trump to put pressure on Putin to abandon his maximalist position of laying claim to large parts of…
The march was led by the Klimaatcrisis Coalitie (Climate Crisis Coalition), a Dutch alliance bringing together civil society, environmental and youth groups. The organisers wanted to restore climate change to the core of political conversation, after it was overshadowed by immigration and housing throughout the campaign. Protesters urged the next government to protect nature, end fossil fuel subsidies, and hold major polluters accountable. As Greenpeace and Fridays For Future banners filled the crowd, their calls for climate justice echoed close to the Dutch parliament in the Hague; though not the capital, it’s the political centre of the Netherlands, hosting the…
The massive Port of Antwerp acts as a gateway for illegal narcotics to enter Belgium — and Europe more widely. Brussels, the country’s capital, has been plagued by a spate of drug-related shootings, with more than 60 incidents this year alone, 20 of them occurring just this summer. In response to the bloodbath, Belgium’s Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said he wants to deploy soldiers on the streets of Brussels. Earlier this year, the Belgian government approved a merger of Brussels’ six police zones into a single unit, set to take effect in early 2027, to tackle the scourge of violence.…
By Jerry Fisayo-Bambi with AP Published on 27/10/2025 – 6:21 GMT+1 •Updated 7:12 The US government’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Sunday posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out on 1 November, raising the stakes for families nationwide as the government shutdown drags on. The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP, flowing into November. “Bottom line, the well has run dry,” the USDA notice says. “At this time, there will…
A bruising weekend for Keir Starmer: Labour loses its stronghold Caerphilly seat to Plaid Cymru in a by-election and faces fallout from the mistaken release and chaotic recapture of a convicted sex offender. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy unpack what went wrong, as a damning report on the asylum system slams the Home Office. Plus, Lucy Powell makes her debut as Labour’s new deputy leader. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has left the country to try to push through a Gulf trade deal. Will she be successful?
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There’s Hamas, the perpetrators of the Oct. 7, 2023 atrocity in Israel in which 1,200 people were killed. And on the Israeli side there are “extremists who don’t want to hear about the two-state solution,” she said, referring to the prime minister and members of his Cabinet. “We hear a lot of things that are unacceptable sometimes in the mouth of a responsible person who [is] in the lead of their country.” Does she think Netanyahu wants peace? “To ask the question is to give an answer,” said Lahbib, who is Belgium’s EU commissioner. “I have some doubts. So far…
The far-right party of President Javier Milei of Argentina won Sunday’s midterm elections, following a campaign where US President Donald Trump promised a $40 billion rescue for the nation and made further aid contingent on his Argentine counterpart’s success. Milei’s governing La Libertad Avanza party won over 40% of votes in national elections to renew almost half of the lower house of Congress, according to tallies in local media using numbers from electoral authorities with more than 97% of votes counted. Milei won decisive victories in key districts, sweeping away eight provinces in the vote to renew a third of…
Water waste is “amplifying the climate crisis” and damaging economic resilience. Experts are now calling for urgent action. A new report from Danfoss warns that the water sector’s energy consumption is expected to double by 2040, while the energy sector’s water demand could rise by almost 60 per cent. Global water demand could also outstrip supply by 40 per cent in the next five years, adding to the 3.6 billion people who already lack adequate access to water all year round. How are energy and water connected? Every stage of the water cycle requires energy: from extraction and treatment to…