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By Anna Kirchheim with AFP Published on 06/10/2026 – 23:36 GMT+2•Updated 07/10/2026 – 0:51 GMT+2 Swedish police say they shot an armed man outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm on Tuesday evening after receiving reports of a disruptive individual carrying a weapon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said officers responding to the incident opened fire on the man. “The man was hit and taken to hospital,” Stockholm police spokeswoman Susanna Rinaldo told AFP. She said his injuries were considered serious but not life-threatening. Rinaldo initially declined to specify the type of weapon involved, adding that the police operation remained ongoing but that there was…
Published on 06/10/2026 – 20:07 GMT+2 Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced the decision to take over the tasks currently carried out by the Netherlands. The Swedish regiment will be responsible for protecting the hub from threats coming from the air, including drones and rockets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Commander of the Swedish air defence regiment, Colonel Sofia Westermark, described the operation as the most complex mission Sweden has undertaken as a NATO member. She stressed that the location is exposed to threats both from the air and from the ground. The importance of Rzeszów-Jasionka is exceptional. It is one of…
After months of tensions, relations between Brussels and Beijing are entering a crucial phase, with the European Commission having set October as a deadline to secure “tangible” results with Beijing to rebalance their trade relationship. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The stakes are high for the EU, whose trade deficit with China has now reached a record €1 billion a day. Key talks will take place in Beijing at the end of this week between EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Wentao. They will be followed next week by a meeting of EU leaders, with China set to top…
Lithuania has taken a step towards removing a constitutional ban on nuclear weapons from its territory, bringing the Baltic state closer to the legal position of its neighbours as European allies debate how to strengthen NATO’s deterrence in the face of Russia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, voted 106-18, with six abstentions, on Tuesday to advance a constitutional amendment removing a provision that bars weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases from Lithuanian territory. The change still requires a second vote after a constitutionally mandated three-month waiting period. At least 94 of the Seimas’ 141 members must…
Spanish Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena has revoked the national arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont after Spain’s Constitutional Court endorsed applying the amnesty law linked to Catalan’s independence drive that culminated in a 2017 referendum. The decision removes one of the main legal hurdles to the former president of Catalonia’s regional government returning to Spain. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Llarena’s move follows a Constitutional Court ruling in favour of former Catalan regional minister Dolors Bassa. Until now, the Supreme Court had refused to apply the amnesty, a 2024 law covering those prosecuted over the “procés”, to embezzlement connected to the bid for…
Published on 06/10/2026 – 11:12 GMT+2•Updated 11:58 Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has condemned a drone attack on two commercial ships in the Black Sea that sank one of them, calling it “a flagrant violation of maritime law”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Such an attack within the Bulgarian exclusive economic zone is absolutely unacceptable,” he told reporters on Tuesday at the start of an emergency government meeting on the strikes. Sea and aerial drones hit the vessels at about 3am local time (2am CET), around 70 nautical miles east of the town of Byala according to Radev, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA)…
Former German intelligence chief August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information from a former employee of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and using it in connection with his private consultancy work. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is reportedly investigating the 80-year-old former BND president on suspicion of offences including obtaining state secrets and treason-related espionage. Hanning allegedly continued to receive confidential documents from the intelligence service for years after leaving office. His former chief of staff is suspected of supplying him with the material and has also reportedly been arrested. According to reporting by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the…
Green MEP Lena Schilling has described nude deepfake images of herself and several other MEPs as “unacceptable”, saying their creators tried to take her “dignity away”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A report by Agora Digital Transformation found at least 50 MEPs, 46 women and four men, to have been affected by deepfake pornography. Schilling described it as a “threat to democracy” and a form of humiliation that is “unseen”, warning that it could deter young women from entering politics. The MEP is calling for a ban on AI nudifier apps.
After a weekend-long hiatus, high schoolers in France are expected back at the barricades this coming week in their protest movement that is rattling the government of President Emmanuel Macron. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A key question is whether violence on the margins of the demonstrations will worsen, blurring the lines between protest and rioting, and whether Macron’s government will ratchet up the already muscular response by police. According to the interior minister, officers made more than 5,000 arrests last week, 85% of them minors, in scuffled between students and security forces that left hundreds of people injured. A test of the…
From falsely linking Estonia’s president Alar Karis to Jeffrey Epstein to a disinformation campaign about a Ukrainian soldier killing three NATO servicemen — Kremlin-linked false information campaigns that circulated ahead of and during elections in Latvia and Estonia were aimed at creating mistrust and confusion among the voters, according to a London-based threat intelligence company Refute report published on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Russia is deploying disinformation as a deliberate instrument designed to disorient citizens, shape public debate and deepen divisions ahead of elections,” said Tom Garnett, Co-founder and CEO of Refute. Campaigns around Estonia’s September presidential election and Latvia’s October…