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PoliticsOct 8UK and Israel broker compromise over East Jerusalem consulateBoth sides claim a win — but relations have soured over British plans to sanction West Bank settlements.Politico Europe
PoliticsOct 8UK PM Burnham to discuss sabotage and cybersecurity with Merz in BerlinBurnham's meeting with Merz comes amid increasing warnings of hybrid threats in Europe and follows a drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in August - which Berlin has accused Russia of orchestrating.EuroNews [en]
BusinessOct 8Europe markets retreat as higher oil prices and bond yields weighEuropean markets are experiencing a retreat due to the impact of rising oil prices and increasing bond yields. This suggests a notable shift in economic conditions affecting the region.Seeking Alpha Tech
ConflictOct 8Ukraine strikes Yandex data center in Russia, sparking fireMeduza [en]
PoliticsOct 8China has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head - ReutersChina has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head ReutersReuters World
PoliticsOct 8Colau acts as leader of the Broad Front: offers Podemos a "role" and "visibility" to negotiate and warns them that "there are lives at stake like Maricarmen's"La ex alcaldesa evita oficializar su candidatura porque ve antes prioritario cerrar un acuerdo con los 'morados' LeerEl Mundo
PoliticsOct 8Lower House set for final vote on new election lawOpposition says overhaul is aimed at preventing Meloni's majority losing next electionANSA [en]
PoliticsOct 8David Sánchez presents appeal against his conviction and points to Judge Biedma: "The investigation was prospective and there was no prevarication"Su defensa presenta un escrito de 104 páginas y pide su absolución LeerEl Mundo
PoliticsOct 8The death of Maricarmen marks a rough express Plenary in which Almeida approves a plan to transform offices and lodging spaces into 18,000 protected flats: "We will find them..."Approval is also given for any tertiary lodging use on industrial land where only hotels could be built. Rita Maestre pointed to a sector of the press and it was criticized that there was no minute of silence.El Mundo
ConflictOct 8Ukraine grapples with a shortage of troops at the front after over 4 years of warABC News
WorldOct 8Paula and Álex left urban life to live in a farmhouse in the mountains: "We hardly buy vegetables because everything we consume is from the garden"Dejaron Barcelona y Londres por una masía en el Montseny con huerto, animales y bosque.Hoy producen casi toda su comida y reconstruyen un modo de vida que el sistema moderno borró.Clarín
ConflictBreakingOct 8Ukrainian drones strike oil refinery in Russia’s BashkortostanMeduza [en]
PoliticsOct 8'The Orange Plague': Naked Trump statue on display at European Parliament in StrasbourgA gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and crushing a smaller man’s shoulders has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.EuroNews [en]
WorldOct 8Southampton manager Eckert can stay on despite role in ‘spygate’ scandalTonda Eckert let off with fine and reprimand but avoids ban and will continue in his role with the club.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsOct 8I don’t want my children’s English identity questioned – Badenoch“I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, who call veterans traitors, and debate whether my mixed-race children are English,” she said. The post I don’t want my children’s English identity questioned – Badenoch appeared first on Vanguard News.Vanguard Nigeria
BusinessOct 8Trade confrontation threatens: ‘super-crucial’ meeting between EU and ChinaPeking is vandaag en morgen het decor van een ontmoeting tussen de Europese Unie en China. Na maanden van oplopende spanningen over de onderlinge handel, ontmoet Eurocommissaris van Handel Sefcovic daar de Chinese handelsminister Wang Wentao. De Europese Unie wil zo snel mogelijk een oplossing voor een steeds schevere handelsbalans die inmiddels is opgelopen tot 1 miljard euro per dag. Daardoor worden de Europese industrie en werkgelegenheid hard geraakt. Sefcovic noemt deze ontmoeting "supercruciaal". China heeft juist baat bij de status quo, omdat het veel verdient aan Europese consumenten. NOS Buitenland
PoliticsOct 8Halving MEPs’ salaries would take them ‘out of their bubbles’, MEP saysThe Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group’s proposal to halve MEPs’ salaries would bring them “down to earth” and make it easier for them to “realise what a normal European is going through”.EuroNews [en]
HealthOct 8What was the plague really like in Germany? Experts explain the factsGlobal concern after an incident at a Russian plague lab is making headlines. German plague experts tell Euronews what lessons the "Black Death" holds today.EuroNews [en]
MilitaryOct 8Achieving Breakthrough: Maneuver Warfare in the Face of Robotic MassIn 1914, European armies entered a war with forces designed to move. Within months, they were digging themselves into the earth. Fires from newly introduced machine guns and heavy artillery made movement across exposed ground a proposition far more deadly than in any war that had ever afflicted humanity. More than a century later, armies are confronting an unsettling echo of that experience in Ukraine.Drones and other robotic precision weapons fill the low-altitude airspace, detecting and destroying tanks and other large vehicles that appear anywhere near the Ukrainian front and devastating anWar on the Rocks
Sci & TechOct 8Ignacio Obeso, neuroscientist: “If the brain is always in a predictable state, it activates less; new habits must be created frequently”Los hábitos permiten realizar acciones de manera rápida y automática, y ahorran trabajo al cerebro, pero cambiarlos o adaptarlos a nuevas metas implica un esfuerzo cognitivo significativo.Clarín
PoliticsOct 8Britain downscales and renames Jerusalem consulate after Israel orders closureBritain said on Thursday its ⁠nearly 200-year-old consulate in Jerusalem ⁠would remain operating at a smaller scale, renamed ⁠as the “UK Mission” in the city, after Israel ordered it shut in a dispute over sanctions on settlements. Israel last month issued a 30-day deadline for Britain to close the consulate after London announced sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a dispute that has strained relations between the long-time allies. The deadline expired on...South China Morning Post
PoliticsOct 8Will Berlin help Britain rejoin the EU?With conference season in the rear-view mirror, Andy Burnham jets off to Germany for his first European trip as PM – but how much do Anglo-German relations matter right now? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy look ahead to his meeting with German chancellor Friedrich Merz as the countries attempt to align ambitions and maybe find […]Politico Europe
PoliticsOct 8Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remainIsrael said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.BBC World
PoliticsOct 8UK’s exclusion from ‘Made in EU’ scheme would ‘weaken’ Europe, minister warnsHamish Falconer, the UK’s chief negotiator with Brussels, warns that excluding Britain from the EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ industrial policy risks fracturing the common industrial base and making Europe ‘weaker’.EuroNews [en]
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