Exit polls from Latvia’s parliamentary election published Saturday evening favoured Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ party, suggesting the country will maintain its pro-European and pro-Ukrainian course. But populist parties also had a good night after an election campaign dominated by fears over neighbouring Russia and the cost of living at home. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ centre-right […]
Read MoreIsrael said on Saturday that it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment that local officials said killed five people, four of them women. The pre-dawn strike came on the anniversary according to the Jewish calendar of the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest-ever day for […]
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Yemen’s Houthis claimed an attack on an oil facility near the Saudi capital on Saturday, where an AFP journalist saw flames and smoke, and accused the Gulf kingdom of striking Sanaa dozens of times. The foes have traded strikes since the Houthis seized all of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and took control of the Bab al-Mandab […]
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Beim Festakt zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit hat Bundesratspräsident Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) zur Verteidigung der Demokratie aufgerufen. “Noch nie seit Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hatten Kräfte, die unsere freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung infrage stellen, so viel Zuspruch wie heute”, sagte Bremens Bürgermeister am Samstag bei der Eröffnung des Festakts im Konzerthaus der Hansestadt. Es dürfe “kein Zurückweichen […]
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Nach dem Scheitern eines Regulierungspakets gegen die Wohnungsnot im Parlament sind in Spanien erneut zehntausende Menschen für bezahlbaren Wohnraum auf die Straße gegangen. Allein in der Hauptstadt Madrid beteiligten sich am Samstag nach Behördenangaben 70.000 Menschen an den Demonstrationen, die Organisatoren sprachen von 500.000. Auch in mehreren anderen Städten gab es Proteste. In Madrid bewegten […]
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UAE investigators have said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel this week was planning a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the captain, but they did not reveal his motive. During the flight on Wednesday, its Indian captain was assaulted by the co-pilot but managed to open the cockpit door, […]
Read MoreVivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler said the fashion industry was in a “precarious moment” as he unveiled his latest Spring-Summer collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week. Kronthaler, the Austrian widower of Vivienne Westwood who took over after her death, found inspiration from African fabrics and his own penchant for night gowns […]
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Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler said the fashion industry was in a “precarious moment” as he unveiled his latest Spring-Summer collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week. Kronthaler, the Austrian widower of Vivienne Westwood who took over after her death, found inspiration from African fabrics and his own penchant for night gowns […]
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Ethiopian federal forces had entered the Tigray state capital on Saturday, a humanitarian source told AFP, after residents reported that the region’s rebels had abandoned the city. Fighting erupted on September 23 in northern Ethiopia as the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched attacks into neighbouring states, raising fears of a return to the devastating […]
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