Communist network and unions latch on to France’s school revolt
Only 15 of the 50 organisations identified in the French protest movement are student or youth groups, an investigation has found.
Brussels tells capitals to clear airport queues before Christmas
Magnus Brunner has defended the EU's digital border system after travellers waited up to five hours at Brussels Airport, saying member states agreed to it and had time to…
Burnham now says Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
No intelligence assessment has been published to support the claim, which lands as London reopens the question of its relationship with Brussels.
Trump declares Russia-Ukraine ‘energy ceasefire’ as strikes on Kyiv continue
Neither Moscow nor Kyiv has confirmed any agreement, and Russian drones hit Ukrainian power plants hours after the announcement, while European buyers remain shut out of the…
Pope Leo XIV announces surgery to remove lung nodule
The 71-year-old Pontiff told pilgrims in St Peter's Square that the growth had been caught early, less than a month before his first papal journey to Latin America.
Trump calls for a new Ukrainian president as Kyiv rejects outside pressure
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European Parliament urges terrorist listing for Muslim Brotherhood networks
MEPs have asked capitals to hand over the evidence that would let the Council add Brotherhood figures and front groups to the EU terrorist list.
France rushes thousands of substitute teachers into schools as student revolt grows
Unions have called fresh nationwide action for October 13 after a day of protests that left dozens of police officers injured and hundreds of people in custody.
Brussels rejects Italian and Greek calls to loosen EU fiscal rules
Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis warned that piling new exemptions on to the budget framework would erode the credibility of the rules themselves.
Eurogroup opens race to replace Schnabel on ECB board
Eurozone finance ministers have set an end-of-October deadline for nominations, putting the first of three senior European Central Bank vacancies formally in play.
Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize for her reworking of the Greek classics
The Swedish Academy has given the 2026 award to the Canadian poet and classicist, a perennial favourite who becomes the first Canadian laureate since Alice Munro.
Italy adopts electoral law handing bonus seats to the winning coalition
The Chamber of Deputies cleared the final parliamentary hurdle in a secret ballot, less than a year before the country returns to the polls.
Britain charges serving Royal Navy sailor with spying for foreign power
Teddy Young, 24, faces two counts under the National Security Act after an investigation by counter-terrorism detectives in London.
French court sharply increases sentences over Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks
Two associates of the gunman who murdered four people in 2018 have been convicted of terrorist conspiracy on appeal, after a first trial that largely rejected the charge.
Trump insists on talking of Iranian missiles hitting Los Angeles and San Diego
The US President told a Texas rally his administration would never allow such a strike, two days after the same remarks drew condemnation from California's Democrat leadership.
Iran summons French ambassador over policing of school protests
Tehran accuses Paris of double standards as France hits back by summoning the Iranian ambassador over an alleged disinformation campaign.
Bulgaria ends search for crew of ship sunk by drones off its coast
Sofia says the strike inside its Black Sea economic zone does not trigger NATO consultations, as Brussels offers solidarity but no protection for merchant shipping.
Brussels presses Beijing for import curbs as its own deadline falls due
Maroš Šefčovič lands in China on October 8 with the trade gap widening by about €1 billion a day and no public concession to show for four months of dialogue.
Brussels moves to speed up EU product standards and make them free to read
The European Commission wants to cut standard-setting from six years to four, though it took court rulings to force it to open texts that already carry the force of EU law.
Brussels calls for ‘proportionate’ policing as French school revolt drags on
The commissioner responsible for youth has intervened in a policing dispute over which the European Union has no authority.
Traders build record bets against the euro as energy costs and French debt weigh
The single currency has slid to its weakest level against the dollar since May 2025, with speculative short positions now at an all-time high.
Swedish police shoot armed man outside Royal Palace in Stockholm
The man was seriously wounded at Lejonbacken, the slope leading up to the palace's northern entrance, and is being treated in a city hospital, police said.
Flávio Bolsonaro vows to change Brazil’s constitution as run-off nears
The Liberal Party candidate has won the backing of a defeated rival and promised a harder line on crime before the October 25 vote.
France suspends secondary lessons as pupil revolt turns violent
Timetables are halted nationwide until at least the weekend after 215 pupils and 85 school staff were injured, with the French Government blaming La France Insoumise for the…
Downing Street says Fairford is safe as Washington plays down bomber withdrawal
The British Government has insisted the Gloucestershire base is secure, though American officials have given competing accounts of why the B-1s left.
AfD moves to take first German state parliament presidency
Sahra Wagenknecht's party has pledged the votes that would put an AfD politician in the chair in Magdeburg, breaking the cordon sanitaire in a German State parliament for…
Home Office hands out free hijabs to small-boat migrants
The British department says the law obliges it to provide religious clothing, while the opposition wants the practice stopped at once.
Trump to look at a US military base in Lithuania
Vilnius has offered to pay for a permanent American presence, while Warsaw is still waiting for Washington to name the site of its own base.
Deepfake pornography sites target dozens of MEPs
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola told the Strasbourg plenary that around 60 members, most of them women, had been targeted by websites carrying AI-generated sexual…
Turkey and Pakistan send troops to Saudi Arabia as Mecca defence pact is invoked
The first activation of the August alliance comes while Brussels is still asking member states for a handful of extra frigates to keep Red Sea shipping moving.