JAV prezidentas Donaldas Trumpas pirmadienį vykusiame rinkimų mitinge Nebraskoje pareiškė, kad Iranas galėtų „sunaikinti“ Los Andželą ir San Diegą, rašo „Los Angeles Times“. Leidinys pažymi, kad šie žodžiai galbūt buvo ištarti juokais. Tačiau toks pasisakymas sukėlė komentarų audrą, o Kalifornijos gubernatorius prezidentą pavadino pamišusiu.

Prancūzijos gynybos ministerija pranešė, kad šalis antradienį pirmą kartą sėkmingai išbandė naują branduolinį užtaisą galinčią nešti balistinę raketą M51.3, kuri buvo paleista iš atominio povandeninio laivo.

Students who have been demanding more investment in education are being joined by parents and some big unions.

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BERLIN — A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency was arrested early Tuesday in connection with an investigation into suspected espionage and attempted treason, according to the German Federal Prosecutors Office. An informant allegedly provided August Hanning, the former head of the foreign intelligence agency, or BND, with nearly two thousand documents, many of them classified, according to a statement from federal prosecutors. In one case, Hanning used classified information provided by an informant identified as Manfred D. to create an analysis for an employee of a foreign intelligence service, according the prosecutors office. “The accused Hanning is under strong suspicion of espionage constituting treason,” the prosecutors’ statement read. The allegations will amount to a huge embarrassment for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, which Hanning ran between 1998 and 2005. The BND has a history of being infiltrated by other foreign intelligence services, at times making Western spy agencies reluctant to share senitive information with the agency. In 2022, authorities arrested former BND department head Carsten L. on suspicion of spying for Russia, charges he denies in a court case that is still ongoing. But the allegations now come at a particularly sensitive moment for the BND as the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz moves to grant it major new powers to hit back at Moscow, giving the agency much broader authority to perpetrate acts of sabotage, conduct offensive cyber operations and more aggressively carry out espionage. This is a developing story.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cautioned against cuts to the EU’s next seven-year budget in a rebuke to Germany’s calls to dramatically slash spending. During a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, von der Leyen said that reducing the size of the EU’s common cash pot would undermine critical EU-wide priorities such as competitiveness and energy autonomy. “I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” von der Leyen told MEPs. The warning comes days before the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the budget talks, is expected to put forward a budget negotiating document with new figures. Von der Leyen had previously hailed the Commission’s budget proposal for 2028-2034 as “the most ambitious ever proposed.” But Tuesday, as negotiations among governments enter crunch time, she struck a more cautious note. In a message to Berlin, von der Leyen recalled that the Commission’s budget proposal represents 1.26% of the European Union’s gross national income — a relatively small increase from the current seven-year cash pot. She also underscored the need to approve “a significant package of new own resources,” which are EU-wide taxes to finance the budget and reduce national contributions to Brussels. The bloc’s governments are racing to reach an agreement by the end of the year, before elections in France, Italy and Poland in 2027 threaten to disrupt the negotiations. Despite the looming deadline, EU leaders are still far apart over the size of the new budget. Germany and its allies in Northern Europe have pressured Dublin to make cuts worth hundreds of billions of euros across the board. But 17 EU countries from Southern and Eastern Europe — led by Italy and Romania — are pushing in the opposite direction. They asked to preserve farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts, known as cohesion policy, in a joint letter last week. During a separate speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said that “there is no European competitiveness without cohesion, and no European cohesion without competitiveness.” In a rebuke to the frugals, Montenegro said that Portugal’s contribution to the EU budget as a share of its gross domestic product is higher than that of Germany and other wealthier countries. “Giving 10 out of 100 is much more than giving 50 out of 1,000,” he told MEPs. But Germany insists that its budget contributions are too high. In a thinly veiled threat on Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that “having no new financial framework is by far the most financially advantageous solution for Germany.” However, he added that such a scenario would restrict the EU’s ability to act and renewed calls to end the negotiations by the end of the year. Several European officials believe that Dublin will propose budget cuts exceeding €100 billion. The proposal is expected to be put forward Saturday and be discussed by EU ambassadors Sunday. This article has been updated.

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Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power

Turkey has not yet ratified agreement, making deployment of ground troops unlikely for now

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, October 6: The death of a researcher in Siberia, reportedly from the plague, sparks concern despite Russian authorities' denial. But first: French high school protesters are promising "Act 3" of their protest movement against learning conditions. Also, Le Monde speaks to the editor of Russian independent outlet Novaya Gazeta ahead of the 20th anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Finally, it appears that butter is back in fashion.

Yemen's Houthis claimed an attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital while also denying on Tuesday losing territory to government forces, as fighting intensified. After declaring a counter-offensive, government forces claimed Monday to have pushed the Houthis out of the Bab al-Mandab area, a key shipping route in the Red Sea, as well as the port city of Mocha, which was captured last month.

Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country.

Namibian livestock farmers have temporarily lost access to their largest market over fears of foot-and-mouth disease.