Author: Press Room
Published on 16/07/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2•Updated 9:18 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer travelled to Ukraine on Thursday for a farewell visit, using his final overseas trip in office to reaffirm his nation’s long-term support before handing power to his successor next week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Starmer is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where he is expected to stress that the UK’s backing for Ukraine will continue after Andy Burnham takes office as prime minister on Monday. “Our cast-iron support for Ukraine will always endure,” Starmer said in a statement released ahead of the visit. “Throughout this conflict, I have…
Published on 16/07/2026 – 11:57 GMT+2 “She is France’s last hope.” It was with this message posted on X on Wednesday 15 July that Elon Musk expressed his support for Marine Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) candidate in the 2027 presidential election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The owner of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X was responding to a post claiming that voting intentions for the RN parliamentary group leader “have skyrocketed” in recent weeks. In April 2025, Elon Musk had already voiced his support for Marine Le Pen when she was initially sentenced to five years of ineligibility for…
European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius said that Ukraine’s recent advances targeting Russian maritime vessels and energy infrastructure is putting Kyiv in a position of strength — and should hopefully force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It’s remarkable what Ukraine managed to achieve during the recent half a year with deep strikes,” he said on the Europe Today programme. “Such kind of development should be a clear argument for Putin and his surroundings — that he is not able to achieve any significant development in his war aims, and that is the moment when real…
Anyone looking for an owner-occupied flat in a major German city will only get a handful of square metres for €390,000. In Kamsdorf, in the Thuringian district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, the same amount will buy an entire small village. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It includes 15 single-storey buildings, each with around 100 square metres of floor space, plus a central main building with a dining hall of more than 300 square metres. The site covers around 24,000 square metres, nestled between meadows, woodland and mature trees, just a few hundred metres from the Hohenwarte reservoir. The complex is being sold via popular property…
A business decision can often look simple from the outside. A supplier submits a proposal. A potential partner makes contact. A new customer wants to begin work. The commercial opportunity appears attractive, and the natural instinct is to focus on the price, service and contract terms. Yet there is one question that businesses should answer before making an important commitment: who exactly is the company behind the deal? For businesses dealing with companies registered in the United Kingdom, the answer can often begin with the Companies House register. Companies House is the UK’s official company registrar, and its public records…
Published on 16/07/2026 – 12:42 GMT+2•Updated 18:35 Ukraine’s parliament has appointed Sergii Koretskyi as new prime minister as part of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest government reshuffle. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Koretskyi, who has led the state energy company Naftogaz since May 2025, takes office as Ukraine faces sustained Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure. Kyiv has said preparing the country’s energy system for the coming winter is a top priority as Moscow continues its campaign to degrade Ukraine’s power network, plunging cities into the dark during freezing temperatures. Defence ministry scandal Later on Thursday, Zelenskyy appointed the head of Ukraine’s Security service…
As thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets on Thursday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the former minister publicly acknowledged that his conflict with Ukraine’s commander-in-chief had contributed to his removal. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking at a tense media briefing, Fedorov revealed that Zelenskyy had been forced to choose between him and Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. However, he insisted that he had never presented the president with an ultimatum of “either me or Syrskyi”. “I said then we will win with this commander-in-chief.” According to Fedorov, he accepted the president’s decision despite their differences. “When…
By Greta Ruffino with AFP Published on 16/07/2026 – 17:56 GMT+2 The European Union on Thursday ordered Google to share data with rival search engines and open up its Android operating system to competing AI services. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Thanks to these measures we hope to see emerging alternatives to Google Search and Google’s AI services, such as Gemini, and that users in the EU can enjoy greater choice of services,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said. However, the US tech giant warned that the measures would put users’ privacy at risk. The order was issued under the EU’s flagship Digital Markets Act (DMA),…
The way people work has changed dramatically over the past decade. Professionals are no longer restricted to traditional offices, while businesses increasingly rely on digital tools to communicate, manage operations and serve customers. For many of today’s workers, the laptop is at the centre of everything. A freelancer may use one to complete client assignments. A programmer may spend the majority of the day working on a computer. An entrepreneur may manage an entire online business through a laptop. A remote employee may need to remain connected to an international company from a home office. This dependence on technology has…
By Greta Ruffino with AFP Published on 16/07/2026 – 16:06 GMT+2 A UK court on Thursday sentenced two young men to prison over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the personal data of millions of customers in one of Britain’s largest data breaches. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from England’s West Midlands, were each sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at Woolwich Crown Court in London. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London’s (TfL) network between 31 August and 3 September 2024, gaining access to the names and…