Europe

The French president used his farewell address to propose a moratorium on strikes targeting Ukrainian infrastructure and condemned the complete lack of humanitarian corridors in Gaza.

Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union lost every seat in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern after its vote collapsed to 4.9 per cent, leaving three rival parties with enough numbers to govern.

Three people died and twenty were injured when the overnight assault breached the capital's oil refinery and grounded hundreds of passenger flights.

The company stripped live prices and direct booking links from hotel and flight queries on 8 September following an 890 million euro fine from regulators.

The questionnaire is part of a formal antitrust investigation opened in December 2025 into claims that media outlets cannot refuse artificial intelligence scraping without losing their general online visibility.

Russia's government can now take temporary control of privately owned infrastructure whose operators fail to protect it from Ukrainian drone strikes, under a decree Vladimir Putin signed this week.

Ukraine has secured 600 PAC-2 interceptors for its Patriot air defences from Germany across 2027 and 2028, twice what it asked for and still under two years of cover at the rate its air force says it needs.

The European Commission has approved €6.1 billion in new defence procurement for Ukraine, signed off on 24 August 2026, Ukraine's Independence Day. The money goes directly toward air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunition and radars.