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.
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Irish presidency proposes 8 per cent cut to Commission’s 2028-2034 EU budget plan
The proposal sets total commitments at roughly €1.62 trillion in 2025 prices, or about €1.83 trillion in current prices.
Trump calls for a new Ukrainian president as Kyiv rejects outside pressure
The US president said Ukraine needed a leader able to make a deal, drawing applause from Moscow and a reminder from Kyiv that only Ukrainians choose their head of…
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German transport minister calls EU combustion-engine ban a ‘big mistake’
“The federal government is united in jointly advocating in Brussels for a reversal of the ban,” he said.
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German ex-chancellor Schröder lambasted for celebrating Putin’s birthday in Moscow
Schröder was already in the Russian capital on business when Putin learned of his presence from media reports on the morning of October 7.
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Crowd attacks Vlaams Belang politician at Antwerp city hall
Two people from the Belgian-Moroccan group have been detained by police following the incident.
Brazilian judge orders arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro as runoff nears
He is currently in the United States, and the warrant takes effect if he returns.
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Left-wing Hungarian newspaper relaunches online
The new newsroom is built mainly on the staff of Népszava, another long-running left/social-democratic daily, together with many former Népszabadság journalists.
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EU plans new military mission in Lebanon as UNIFIL withdraws
That resolution authorised a force of up to 15,000 personnel. At its peak, the mission deployed more than 10,000 peacekeepers.
Russian Liberal politician jailed for four years over €37 in donations to Navalny foundation
The court ordered the 3,500 roubles confiscated, along with a mobile phone, Kommersant reported.
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BMW withdraws official-car offer to AfD state parliament president
The company gave no reason, though German media have linked the move to the vote in Magdeburg.
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Germany withdraws from joint next-generation tank project with France
Joint staff work over several years had clarified what a future main battle tank should look like, he said, and that effort “wasn’t a waste of time”.
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Deadly knife attacks in Polish schools used as political football by PM Tusk
The attacker has been detained and will appear before a family court as he is a minor.
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.
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Gas network operators warn of 15 per cent EU shortfall in a severe winter
EU storage stood at 72 per cent on October 1, against 83 per cent a year earlier.
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.
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BBC pays white staff less than ethnic-minority colleagues in most pay bands
In the lowest band, black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic-minority employees had median pay 13.2 per cent higher than white staff.
Four in five people convicted of theft in Switzerland hold a foreign passport
Algerian and Romanian nationals were the most frequently recorded. About two-thirds of those convicted were not part of the permanent resident population.
Dutch PM misinforms parliament over AI use
Researchers at the universities of Chicago and Maryland found Pangram wrongly flags about one in 10,000 human texts.
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Britain turns to Berlin to ease its way back towards Brussels
The UK is courting Germany before a summit with the European Union that will test how far London is prepared to go.
EU budget errors climb for a second year
On spending they issued an adverse opinion for the seventh year in a row, meaning the errors were material and pervasive.
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…
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Antifa behind violent student riots in Belgium, interior minister says
"Adults who manipulate children in order to put across violent political messages. That is totally unacceptable".
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…
Noelia’s euthanasia case returns to Strasbourg six months after her death
The European court allowed the procedure to go ahead in March.