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Pope Leo XIV had a “good night” in hospital and has eaten breakfast as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The pope had a good night in the hospital. He got up and had breakfast,” the Vatican said in a short statement on Telegram. The 71-year-old leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics announced on Sunday that he would undergo an operation to remove a nodule from his lung. After the procedure at Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, the Vatican revealed that the growth was cancerous and that surgeons had removed part of…
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Euronews that Brussels must step up its support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a turbulent week in which US President Donald Trump suggested Kyiv needed a new leader. Kallas said Moscow was betting on a prolonged war, seeking to outlast Ukraine while intensifying attacks on civilians. She also defended Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries as legitimate targets, arguing that oil revenues are a key source of funding for Moscow’s war effort. Trump has urged Kyiv to stop targeting energy infrastructure. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT
The European Commission is moving to enforce its new rules on leading AI labs after a string of incidents, EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen said. But applying the rulebook is far from straightforward, and these early cases will set important precedents. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Commission’s AI Office is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic after AI agents autonomously hacked into other organisations, the first test of the limits of the EU’s AI rules. “Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent requests for information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” Commission Executive Vice-President…
Published on 15/10/2026 – 6:10 GMT+2 SpaceX boss Elon Musk said that any disruptions Ukraine reports in its use of the Starshield satellite communications system would be the responsibility of the US government, and not his company. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS,” Musk stressed, referring to US President Donald Trump. Musk underlined the distinction between the Starshield system, which Ukraine relies on for battlefield communications, and the parallel Starlink civilian satellite system, which Ukraine also uses but is…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:25 GMT+2 Mark Rutte has urged NATO countries to step up military aid to Ukraine – in particular air defences – as Russia continues to pummel Kyiv with hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles every day. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Over 600,000 people across Ukraine were left without electricity on Wednesday after deadly Russian strikes, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said. “With winter coming, and with Russia’s aggression unrelenting, Allies need to do more, especially in support of air defence,” Rutte told journalists in a press conference in Tallinn alongside Estonian Prime Minister, Kristan Michal. The NATO chief is meeting…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:32 GMT+2•Updated 20:30 The Ring, the Euronews weekly debate show, travels to Budapest to find out how Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is resetting relations with the EU after years of tension under the previous government. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Magyar, who won a landslide victory in April’s parliamentary election, has been warmly welcomed by Brussels. In May, he reached a deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the release of €16.4 billion in funds blocked over longstanding rule-of-law and corruption concerns. Hungary has also lifted its veto on opening of EU accession negotiation clusters…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 21:47 GMT+2 The Trump-Putin deal on the purchase of Russian diesel “is a very risky choice” and “a legitimisation for Moscow while its bombs are still falling on Ukrainian cities”, Giorgia Meloni said in Rome on Wednesday, swiftly winning Kyiv’s approval and provoking a prickly response from Russia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Italian prime minister, speaking in Parliament before heading to Brussels for Thursday and Friday’s European Council, warned of an “implicit weakening of the sanctions lever”, which she said runs counter to what has so far been done, including by the United States, “to push Putin…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 22:27 GMT+2 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is preparing to challenge the EU’s powers if she is elected president next May. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The National Rally leader said the European Commission should stop acting in policy areas she considers outside its remit, including health, security and international diplomacy. “[The Commission] is like the frog in the fable that puffs itself up to be as big as the ox,” she said, referring to La Fontaine’s fable, at a press conference in Brussels on Monday. It was following a meeting with leaders of Patriots for Europe, the…
By Laure Valentin Published on 14/10/2026 – 22:56 GMT+2 Day after day, secondary school students continue to mobilise across France. Most of the actions take the form of peaceful blockades, yet they do not erase the memory of several violent incidents. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The security forces, for their part, are preparing for another day of protests on Saturday 17 October. The government, meanwhile, is issuing a warning. “The President of the Republic stressed that young people are expressing legitimate anxieties, but that these anxieties are being exploited politically and turned into urban violence, with scenes that are unacceptable”, government spokesperson Maud…
A 94-year-old woman in Florence faces losing the home she has lived in for more than 60 years after her landlord said her rent would rise from €450 to €1,200 a month. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Franca’s contract expires in February, and her family says she will not be able to afford to renew it on the new terms. Her case closely echoes that of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, the 87-year-old who became a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain after a steep rent rise led to her eviction in Madrid. She died in hospital a few…