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France accuses Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of sabotaging supermarket fridges in cyberattack
The targeted sabotage forced tonnes of food to be dumped, spoiling millions of euros’ worth of inventory.
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Recorded rapes almost double in Spain under Sánchez as killings rise by nearly a third
Attempted murders climbed 78 per cent between 2018 and 2025, official crime statistics showed.
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Italian institutions face cyber offensive as foreign minister and anti-mafia directorate targeted
The concern was compounded today by revelations that the DIA is verifying a possible system compromise.
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Fine Gael puts a price on Irish unity ahead of Harris’s return as Taoiseach
The Irish centre-right party unveiled a blueprint in Cork on November 7 proposing a standing forum, a junior minister for North-South relations and a sovereign wealth…
Le Pen says Mélenchon plans to dismantle France
The National Rally presidential candidate has claimed the left-wing platform would complete the deconstruction of the country begun under Emmanuel Macron.
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LFI presents presidential programme: Pensions at 60, tax increases and disarmed police
“I have only one reasonable thing to propose to you: Everything must change. It is time to change everything,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon said.
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Attempts to reset Polish constitutional court stall as Tusk and EC double down
The proposal is an attempt to defuse the current confrontation around the legitimacy of several of the constitutional court’s judges and restore legitimacy to…
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Saint Nicholas relic stolen, burned and crushed in French basilica
At the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, located roughly 12 kilometres southeast of Nancy.
Kraków gunman dies in hospital as Poland mourns victims
The man who killed six people on the city's historic Main Market Square had also shot dead his parents and sister, according to police.
Illegal migrant arrivals in Canary Islands overtake last year’s total
A surge of boats to El Hierro has pushed the Spanish archipelago past its 2025 figure with almost two months of the year still to run.
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Lone gunman kills family before shooting six dead at random in Kraków
The authorities have called the incident “terrorist” and police said the gunman had been shot by officers but survived and was taken to hospital.
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Belgian King refuses De Wever’s resignation and orders coalition back to budget talks
He has now asked De Wever to resume negotiations immediately and report back to the Palace on November 16.
France hit by nationwide strike after MPs throw out austerity budget
Unions, students and the yellow vest movement have taken to the streets as the government struggles to push spending cuts through a hung parliament.
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EU opens second fraud probe into Spanish high-speed rail safety funds after deadly crash
The new probe focuses specifically on EU funding tranches allocated to overhaul signalling, communications and emergency safety mechanisms along the Madrid–Seville…
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Confidence in Macron drops to 13 per cent, lowest rating ever measured
The four-point drop over the past month, and 11 points since August, pushes Macron below the previous historical floor for an incumbent Élysée occupant.
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Spanish police raid Ábalos residence and arrest six in secret probe into rigged infrastructure contracts
His partner, Andrea de la Torre, who lives at the property, was also placed under arrest.
Kremlin dismisses ‘absurd’ claims Russia behind supermarket fridge hacks
Moscow has rejected suggestions that pro-Russian hackers were behind the cyberattacks that heated refrigeration systems in supermarkets across Europe and in cold…
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KLM to cut 5,000 positions as CEO warns airline’s future ‘not guaranteed’
The overhaul aims to deliver an annual financial improvement of €1 billion by 2028.
Spanish minister quit hours after Sánchez was told of ‘prostitute parties’ claims
Óscar Puente resigned over the Urda rail disaster two hours after the Prime Minister's chief of staff briefed him on allegations that a businessman had hosted the…
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Hoax bomb threats disrupt European aviation for third time in a week
The rolling wave of alerts has affected around 20 commercial flights operated by Aer Lingus, Finnair, Ryanair, LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and…
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Dutch nitrogen plans could shutter up to 30 per cent of livestock farms
“Society is asking farmers through this policy: reduce your emissions,” said Petra Berkhout, project leader at WSER.
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German employers warn 300,000 more industrial jobs at risk amid deindustrialisation fears
“Given the underutilisation of capacity, a further 300,000 jobs are at risk in the metal and electrical industry alone over the next two to three years,” Zander…
Spanish mother accused of selling her own newborns to other families
Six people have been arrested in a joint police operation in Extremadura and Andalusia after investigators found a woman had allegedly given birth at home to keep…
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Decades of secrets unsealed as Hungary publishes communist-era agent registries
Users can search by name, place and date of birth and cover name. Sensitive personal data, such as details of health, addiction or sexual orientation, has been redacted.
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Ukraine bans Polish journalist Łukasz Warzecha for three years on ‘security grounds’
He was stopped on November 2 at the Dołhobyczów-Uhrynów crossing on the Polish-Ukrainian border, in Lublin province, eastern Poland.
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Puente’s exit hands Sánchez a slogan as Urda crash dents Socialist polls
Spain's transport minister stepped down on November 3 after two fatal crashes on the same line, with post-crash surveys putting the Socialists close to 100 seats.
Most jobless single mothers in Spain depend on aid to get by
Many would take undeclared work and say family duties have cost them job offers, according to a survey by the Adecco Foundation.
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Mother facing deportation holds nursery school head at gunpoint in Nice
She accused staff of sexually assaulting one of her children, an unsubstantiated claim, according to prosecutor Damien Martinelli.
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German police arrest five in raids on left-wing militant cell
Officers conducted searches across Saxony, Thuringia, Hamburg and Bremen, raiding residences in Zwickau, Leipzig, Dresden, Saalfeld, Hamburg and Bremen.
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French Government prepares ‘riot tax’ on citizens’ insurance bills
The mechanism is designed to finance a dedicated mutualisation pool managed by State-owned reinsurer Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR).