Praėjusių metų pabaigoje ir šių metų pradžioje Kremlius ketino pereiti nuo sekinimo karo strategijos prie „vieno lemiamo proveržio“ taktikos, kuri turėjo priversti Ukrainos karinę ir politinę vadovybę dėl karinės nesėkmės derybose nusileisti keliamoms Kremliaus taikos sąlygoms. Tačiau, kaip savo komentare leidiniui „Postimees“ sako karo istorikas Juris Kotšinevas, Rusijos režimo planas žlugo, ir tam yra ne viena priežastis. Karo stebėtojo teigimu, Kremlius dabar turi rinktis iš dviejų galimybių.

Už žmogžudystę nuteista Christa Pike antradienį atgavo sąmonę ir pradėjo kalbėti ligoninėje, praėjus beveik savaitei po to, kai JAV Tenesio valstijos pareigūnams nepavyko įvykdyti jai mirties bausmės, pranešė jos advokatai. Christa Pike pabudo praėjus vos dienai po to, kai gydytojai pranešė, kad jos „smegenų veikla yra nutrūkusi“.

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.

The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.

The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.

PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Wednesday pledged to address protesting high school students’ concerns while also announcing the release of strategic fuel reserves to lower prices. “The anger among young people didn’t come out of nowhere,” Lecornu said as he addressed the nation. The center-right prime minister said his government’s first policy responses to protesters’ concerns — including run-down schools, a shortage of substitute teachers, and a desire for more manageable schedules — would come later this month. The government will consider submissions on a public platform set up Tuesday to allow students to voice their grievances. On Tuesday, between 256,000 people, according to police, and 450,000, according to organizers, joined demonstrations across France. Unions, teachers and left-wing political parties took to the streets in solidarity with high school students. But discontent in France extends beyond schools. A surge in fuel prices, triggered by the U.S.-led war in Iran, has added to concerns about the cost of living. Online calls for a Yellow Jackets-style protest on Oct. 17 have emerged in response to rising fuel prices. “Last Friday, [the G7] decided to release strategic [fuel] reserves… As part of this effort, we will make 10 million barrels of diesel from our reserves available to distributors in France,” Lecornu announced, claiming that the supply increase would lower diesel prices by €0.12 to €0.18 per liter. France still has 8 million barrels of oil products to release under a wider deal brokered in March after the outbreak of the war in Iran, and had privately signaled Wednesday morning that it might release an additional 2 million barrels of diesel on top of that, as POLITICO reported earlier on Wednesday. It’s unclear whether the 10 million figure includes that earlier commitment. The French energy ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Lecornu also reached out to French farmers, who have regularly protested in recent years to draw attention to the sector’s economic hardships. “Among those hardest hit by the accumulation of these crises are our farmers,” Lecornu said. He said new measures to supplement an emergency bill for farmers, which already includes more than €1 billion in spending, would be unveiled Thursday. Nicolas Camut contributed to this report.

LUXEMBOURG — The European Parliament can’t review the secret ballot votes that blocked the far right from key positions, its lawyers told a court in Luxembourg today. In court, the Parliament’s lawyer, Niklas Görlitz, said: “The results of the vote are definitive. There’s no mechanism in our rules to redo the vote.” The EU’s General Court was hearing a case brought by the Patriots for Europe group, which is challenging the long-standing firewall set up by Europe’s centrist forces — the European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats, the liberals of Renew, and the Greens — to keep the far right away from decision-making.  Specifically, the Patriots are contesting elections in which the chairs and vice-chairs of parliamentary committees were selected after the 2024 EU election. Those jobs were filled through voting in secret ballots. The group is also questioning the composition of the Parliament’s international delegations, saying its lawmakers were kept away from key roles. Lawyers for the Patriots — home of France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox and Hungary’s Fidesz, among others — said its MEPs being kept from top committee jobs was a “categorical exclusion” and it was “not acceptable” for the Parliament’s third-largest party to be locked out of these positions. The Patriots have 85 lawmakers in the 720-strong chamber. Top jobs in Parliament come up for grabs again in January 2027, giving the Patriots another chance to try to get into powerful positions.  Hungarian lawmaker Kinga Gál, the Patriots’ first vice-president, has previously called the mainstream parties’ actions “outrageous” and “against the rule of law.” The Patriots’ lawyer, Azelio Fulmini, referred to the EU institution’s own description of representation. “This proportional distribution of leadership positions within Parliament prevents the dominance of political life by just one or two large political groups, ensuring that smaller political groups also have a say in setting the political agenda,” he read. “I don’t know if there’s a clearer declaration than that,” he said, adding that he was reading directly “from the European Parliament’s website.” Görlitz told the court that all groups can nominate candidates for key jobs, adding: “Not getting the votes … doesn’t justify your tribunal getting involved in our affairs.” The Patriots’ lawyer accused the Parliament of going beyond the neutral administration of committee elections, arguing that officials helped implement a political agreement designed to keep the group out of leadership posts. EPP chief Manfred Weber told POLITICO in May 2025 that giving the far right access to executive posts was a red line. Over the past two years, his group has repeatedly passed legislation with the far right’s support. The presiding judge, the court’s new president Savvas Papasavvas, did not give a date for the court’s decision.

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Former British consul Vincent Fean says Israel is acting unlawfully by demanding the UK close its consulate.

US secretary of state warns alternative is ‘atrophy, servitude and decline’ in Athens speech

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After more than two weeks of high school protests across France, police have arrested a total of 6,100 individuals, the majority of whom are minors who, until now, had no previous criminal record. So, what has happend to these students, and what lies ahead for them? FRANCE 24's Caitlin Brown has more.

Maricarmen ​Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing ​protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday. Abascal's eviction sparked a series of ​protests ‌across Spain in the past couple ⁠of weeks, including activists camping on one of Madrid's main ‌squares, and calls for tackling a ⁠mounting housing crisis. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.

Kenya is not in the grips of an ebola outbreak, the country's health secretary insisted on Wednesday, in the wake of Kenya's first death from the disease.

Ghana's cabinet has given the green light to a decision to formally apply to join the BRICS geopolitical and economic bloc, according to the country's foreign minister.