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French President Emmanuel Macron will reaffirm France’s “unwavering support to Ukraine” the Élysée Palace said, during talks on Thursday with Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Lily Ebert, taken to Auschwitz in 1944, spent her later years educating people about the Holocaust.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has opened criminal cases against foreign journalists for “illegally” crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Kursk region.

The captain collapsed during his flight from Seattle and the plane made an emergency landing in New York.

Keir Starmer has promised to “smash the gangs” bringing people to the UK in small boats.

Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orban made his case for “change” in Europe in a headline address to the EU parliament on Wednesday. His speech was greeted by denunciations as lawmakers took turns to lambast Orban’s democratic backsliding and pro-Russian positions. 

US nationals David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence. 

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp appointed global head of soccer at Red Bull.

A fan on his honeymoon posed with a banner criticising Valencia’s billionaire owner Peter Lim.

In a wide-ranging speech, Ken McCallum also revealed MI5 had responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022.

A 14-year-old boy who killed nine children and a security guard gives evidence behind closed doors.

Beijing’s decision appeared to be a retaliatory move after the European slapped more import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Trade relations between Brussels and Beijing have become increasingly strained.

The tax on brandy imports is being seen by critics as a retaliatory move for recent EU tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars.

France is barring Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar, from returning to the country “for any reason whatsoever”, the French interior minister said on Tuesday. Omar lived in France with his British wife for several years, working as an artist in Normandy. He was ordered to leave the country last year and was slapped with a two-year ban to return after posting what authorities deemed to be pro-terrorism posts on social media. He is now reported to be living in Qatar.

Christian Brückner is already in jail but has not been charged with the British girl’s disappearance.

Spain World Cup winner Andres Iniesta retires from playing at the age of 40.

Kim said relations between North Korea and Russia would be raised to a new level.

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

Interpol has launched a new European campaign to try to resolve a series of “cold cases” by asking the public to help it identify the remains of 46 women who were found murdered or appear to have died under suspicious circumstances. “Whether it is a memory, a tip, or a shared story, the smallest detail could help uncover the truth,” the global police body said in a statement. Interpol has posted pictures of the women’s faces on its website, along with pictures of jewellery, tattoos and other possible identifiers. In November last year, a similar appeal helped police identify a British woman 31 years after she was found dead in Belgium.

France’s new government, led by conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, will have to lean on the support of the far right as it faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. The motion was called by left-wing alliance New Popular Front, which won the most votes in the June-July parliamentary elections but did not gain an outright majority, and was then sidelined by President Emmanuel Macron when he chose his new prime minister.

The man suspected in the Madeleine McCann case has been cleared on five counts of rape and child sex abuse. He will remain behind bars until September 2025 for a separate rape conviction.

The artwork, which shows two dented beer cans on the floor, was thrown in a bin by a technician.

Ukrainian media reports that six North Korean military officers were killed alongside Russian troops in a missile attack near occupied Donetsk are “highly likely” to be true, Seoul’s defence minister said Tuesday. Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun told lawmakers that he expected North Korea to send more soldiers to support Russia’s war effort.

An ancient Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul regularly opens its doors to people of all faiths, who line up together and cheerfully share sweets – according to Muslim tradition – as they wait to make a wish and drink water from a spring under its foundation that is blessed by a priest. In a city where churches have often fallen into disuse or been converted into mosques, the shared sacred space is an eloquent testimony to the city’s multicultural past under the Ottoman Empire.

The protesters demand that the current leftist government be replaced by a caretaker cabinet. This comes as Tirana prepares to start discussions with the European Union over membership in the bloc.

Interpol has launched another campaign to help identify a number of deceased women

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft set off on Monday on its two-year journey towards a small asteroid already rammed by NASA to test whether potentially planet-threatening asteroids can be bumped off course by a well-timed launch.

Prosecutor says city faces “savagery” after taxi driver killed by 14-year-old and another child, 15, is stabbed to death.

Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard was fighting on the Ukrainian side when he was captured by Russian forces in 2022.

A Russian court sentenced 72-year-old US citizen Stephen Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, following a trial largely held behind closed doors. This sentencing comes amid a string of recent detentions of Westerners in Russia, including another American who was handed a longer prison term for violence against prison staff.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA, which plays a critical role in regulating gene activity. Their research, conducted at prestigious institutions like Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has provided fundamental insights into how organisms develop and function.

France’s Finance Minister Antoine Armand vowed that the 2025 budget will fully align with the European Union’s new spending rules, as the country seeks to address its “colossal” debt through spending cuts and new taxes. Armand aims to bring the public deficit down to five percent of GDP next year, with a longer-term goal of reducing it below the EU’s three percent limit by 2029.

After the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, 2023, EU member states stood united with Israel. But a year into the conflict, the humanitarian cost of Israel’s ground offensive is testing that resolve.

Cancer research or cardiovascular drugs may claim the Nobel Prize in Medicine, set to be announced Monday. With global crises ongoing, the prize seeks to inspire optimism. Possible laureates include American biologist Kevan Shokat, known for his work on the KRAS cancer gene, offering hope for treating tough cancers like lung, colon, and pancreatic tumours.

Immigrants descended in large numbers on Montenegro, which has managed the influx despite its small size.

A 15-year-old boy was “stabbed 50 times” and burned alive this week in the southern French city of Marseille in an apparent drug-related killing. A Marseille prosecutor told the press on Sunday that victims and perpetrators of such violence were getting increasingly younger. 

People in Berlin rallied in support of both Israelis as well as Palestinians and Lebanese in rival demonstrations almost a year after Hamas’ October 7 attack. Protesters mobilized in many other cities the world over.

From Jakarta to Los Angeles, protesters in cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas kicked off a weekend of demonstrations calling for ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon. Security has been tightened in many cities amid planned protests and commemorations ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

As the US presidential election approaches, the countries in the Balkans — in particular Serbia and Kosovo — are watching closely. What impact will the election outcome have on this corner of southeastern Europe?

Several people, including a small child, died when overcrowded boats were trying to cross the Channel to the UK, French authorities said. The interior minister said the child was trampled to death on board.

In two separate tragedies, maritime authorities retrived the body of a two-year-old who had been crushed to death and three adults who had also “probably” been crushed in overcrowded boats trying to cross the Channel, French officials said on Saturday. French and British politicians called to “intensify the fight” against people smugglers.

Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally party are accused of misusing EU funds, but it’s not an isolated incident. Transparency campaigners say the European Parliament rules aren’t tight enough.

The Ukrainian president says he will present a plan to defeat the Russian invasion at a meeting of allies in Germany. This comes as Russia claims to have seized a further village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

At least 19 people have died after flash floods and landslides in central Bosnia-Herzegovina.

France’s public debt is very much in the spotlight. The country’s recently appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, calls it a “sword of Damocles” hanging over future generations. Indeed, for many countries, paying interest on the national debt deprives them of investing in education, healthcare, research and so on. Similar debates are happening across the EU, as the European Commission asks member states to submit their debt reduction plans. We ask Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank (ECB), for his read on the debt situation, and on prospects for an overall European recovery. We also touch on EU-China relations, as a tensions come to a head over the issue of China subsidising the electric vehicles that it exports to Europe.

It has been one year since Israel suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups killing more than 1,000 Israelis and taking more than 250 hostage. Israel’s response has devastated Gaza, displacing most of the population and killing more than 41,000 people, according to Gaza health authorities. Meanwhile, Lebanon has been hit hard by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, with Israel eviscerating the Hezbollah leadership, in response to which Iran launched a massive missile strike against Israel. The EU has recognised Israel’s right to defend itself, while also warning against an “uncontrollable regional escalation”. But beyond such statements, and besides providing financial or humanitarian aid, what can the EU actually do? We discuss this with two MEPs.

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the two-day “Francophonie” summit on Friday, and called on the international community to avoid “double standards” in world conflicts. 

A court judging a French man charged with recruiting dozens of men online to rape his sedated wife has ruled that the public and press could be present when video evidence is shown, reversing an earlier decision. Lawyers for the victim, Gisele Pelicot, hailed the ruling as a “victory”. 

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the two-day “Francophonie” summit on Friday, and called on the international community to avoid “double standards” in world conflicts. 

Germany strongly opposes the tariffs amid fears of a trade war with China. Meanwhile, Beijing called the move "protectionist" and threatened retaliatory measures.

Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev speaks with DW about authoritarianism, disenchantment with liberal democracy, migration and the impact the US presidential election could have on the war in Ukraine.

A mass treasure hunt appears to have come to an end, after an announcement in France that a buried statuette of a golden owl has finally been unearthed – after 31 years.

Peter Cherif, a suspected French jihadist who was close to the perpetrators of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison. Cherif fought for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen from 2011 to 2018, during which time he was suspected of training his Paris childhood friend Cherif Kouachi, who along with his brother Said carried out the January 7, 2015 massacre at the satirical weekly in the French capital. 

President Emmanuel Macron hosts the “Francophonie” summit this week in a bid to bolster French clout in a conflict-ridden world, in particular Africa. Chad President Mahamat Idriss Deby, an ally of France and regular visitor to Paris, will be a prominent guest, as will Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is visiting Kyiv on his first official trip since taking the role.

During his maiden trip as NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv and pledged support to Ukraine in its war with Russia. Ukraine faces a critical few months over the winter as Russian forces continue advancing through the east, while targeting the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk. 

The European Commission said on Thursday it was suing Hungary over a law that imposes jail terms for groups that accept foreign funds for political causes, which rights groups say is aimed at silencing critics of the government by targeting civil society organisations, media outlets and journalists. 

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 3: The Israeli press urges caution as tensions heighten in the Middle East, whereas the Iranian press strikes a more bullish tone. Elsewhere, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer repays more than £6,000 in gifts after a donations row. He also visits Brussels for his first talks on an EU reset. Finally, there are two major shocks in the Champions League as Lille beat defending champions Real Madrid and Aston Villa stun German giants Bayern Munich.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visits Brussels, pledging a relationship re-set after Brexit wrangling.

Colombia and a US firm are fighting over a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea that could be worth $18bn.