Sweden’s Steadfast Noon debut reshapes NATO nuclear drill and Baltic deterrence

Sweden will participate for the first time in NATO’s Steadfast Noon nuclear exercise, deploying Jas 39 Gripen fighters and Armed Forces personnel alongside 13 Allies. The move ties Swedish airpower and geography to NATO’s nuclear mission,...

Denmark Orders 16 More F-35s to Strengthen Combat Power and Arctic Deterrence

Denmark approved funding to buy 16 additional F-35s, taking the future Royal Danish Air Force inventory to 43 aircraft and triggering talks with the F-35 Joint Program Office on accelerated delivery. Copenhagen paired the move with a...

French Lawmaker Praises Türkiye for Repatriating Stranded Nationals

French parliamentarian Farida Amrani has publicly acknowledged Türkiye's humanitarian assistance in repatriating French nationals who were detained by Israeli authorities and subsequently stranded without consular support. In a social media...

Spanish billionaire Ortega sets Brickell office record with $274M purchase

Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega, founder of the global fashion brand Zara, with a networth of $123 billion according to Forbes, has purchased the Sabadell Financial Center in Miami’s Brickell district for $274.4 million. The transaction...

French PM Lecornu says new government must reflect parliamentary reality

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu speaks to journalists after a visit to a police station in L’Hay-les-Roses, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on October 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The next French government will have to reflect the...

French police use pepper spray on migrants trying to cross English Channel

French police have used pepper spray to stop migrants from trying to cross the English Channel. Footage shared on Friday (10 October) shows a group of around 100 people gathered on Gravelines beach in northern France as they attempt to board a...

France’s reappointed PM Lecornu calls for calm amid political chaos

France’s newly reappointed prime minister has acknowledged there were not “a lot of candidates” for his job – and that he might not last long in the post given the country’s deep political divides. Sebastien Lecornu, renamed by President Emmanuel...

France’s re-appointed PM Lecornu urges calm amid political turmoil

France’s newly re-appointed prime minister acknowledged Saturday that few candidates were willing to take the job and warned he may not remain in office long, as the country grapples with deep political divisions and mounting economic challenges....

Italian Americans feel slap of city's Columbus Christopher disrespect

James Sisto argues that removing Columbus statues and renaming Columbus Day disrespects Italian Americans in Columbus, Ohio. He criticizes local leaders for replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, pitting one group's history against...

Germany says EU seeks tech sovereignty without protectionism

Berlin (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Germany’s digital minister, Karsten Wildberger, stated that Europe should develop its own digital infrastructure to lessen reliance on U.S. providers, but this doesn’t imply a total withdrawal from them,...

Baltics developing plans for mass evacuation if Russia attacks

According to a report by Reuters, the Baltic states are developing plans for the mass evacuation of civilians in the event of an invasion by Russian troops. Since the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine in February 2022, the three...

Baltic states prepare mass evacuation plans amid growing fears of Russian attack

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are drawing up detailed plans to evacuate vast numbers of their citizens to the countries’ west in the event of a Russian invasion, with officials warning that Moscow could attempt to overrun all three Baltic states...

Dutch navy escorts damaged Russian submarine through North Sea

The Dutch Navy escorted a damaged Russian submarine, the Novorossiysk, and its supporting tugboat, the Yakov Grebelskiy, through the North Sea on Thursday, the Ministry of Defense reported. The submarine, suffering from a fuel leak, was forced to...

German mayor stabbed 13 times was ‘tortured by adopted daughter, 17, for hours’

Iris Stalzer was due to take office in November (Picture: Facebook) A German mayor who was stabbed 13 times has named her adopted teenage daughter as her attacker, it’s been reported. Iris Stalzer, the mayor of Herdecke in north west Germany, was...

Spain to further promote co-operation with Đà Nẵng  

ĐÀ NẴNG – A ceremony celebrating the National Day of Spain was organised on October 11 in the central city as part of closer friendship ties between Việt Nam and Spain as well as Đà Nẵng City and Spanish partners after 48 years of the...

French PM Lecornu to race against time to form new government

PARIS – French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, reappointed to the post on Friday evening, will now have to form his government quickly if he is to meet the controversial 2026 budget deadlines. The budget draft must be presented to the French...

French PM urges end to ‘spectacle’ as budget deadline looms

Reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornuon Saturday urged France's political parties to work together to put an end to the "ridiculous spectacle" seen in recent days, as he faces a Monday deadline to present a budget. President Emmanuel...

France’s Political Circus: Macron, Lecornu, and the Farce Continues

135Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, to the French political circus! Emmanuel Macron, ringmaster extraordinaire, oversees a spectacle where clowns resign mid-act, ministers vanish like rabbits from a hat, and the prime minister keeps coming...

French PM Lecornu, Macron’s ‘soldier monk’, steels himself for budget battle

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -When Sebastien Lecornu gave his first prime-time TV interview hours after resigning as French prime minister on Wednesday, he cast himself as a “soldier monk” — a man of duty who would not shy away if President...

French parliamentarians urge for establishment of  international  platform to assess  conditions for  return, security and fundamental  rights of Artsakh people

ArmInfo. On the occasion of the anniversary of the forced displacement of the people of Artsakh from their homeland, 31 French senators and members of parliament issued a joint appeal emphasizing the need to hold accountable those responsible for...