“Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall” (arrogance precedes a fall) says a proverb every German knows. That, you may say, is little wonder, considering how the last two world wars started and ended. But the saying is much older. It is rooted in Martin Luther’s punchy translation of the Old Testament (in the E»»»

Many Germans want their politicians to be stripped of the special protection against defamation and insults they enjoy under current laws, a recent survey conducted by the INSA polling agency has shown. The issue has come into the spotlight following dozens of criminal cases opened against people c»»»

The summer of 1938 in France was no ordinary one for Hungarian goalkeeper Antal Szabó. He was contesting the World Cup with his national team for the second time, and with Hungary’s forwards scoring freely and propelling the nation towards the final, it meant that he was idle for long stretches bet»»»

The EU’s controversial deportation bill is heading for a crucial vote next week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, as lawmakers make last-minute efforts to amend legislation that would allow member states to deport rejected asylum seekers abroad. The bill is likely to sail through at Wednesd»»»

PARIS: Leading European nations and their G7 allies will seek to narrow differences with Donald Trump at a summit from Monday chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron but expected to be dominated by the US leader’s presence. Leaders will be looking to put the fizz back into relations with the Un»»»

EU member states could seek to curtail the powers of the bloc’s diplomatic service, headed by Kaja Kallas, amid concerns among officials that the body is “dysfunctional,” the Financial Times has reported. The European External Action Service (EEAS) was launched in 2010 as a kind of collective forei»»»

LONDON: Around 1.3 million people returned to Syria in 2025, marking one of the largest refugee return movements in the world in that year, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The number of Syrian refugees has now dropped to 4.9 million as more people have returned to their homes fo»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government has been pushing for confrontation with Russia to divert public attention from its failed probe into the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and other shortcomings, Alice Weidel, co-chair of the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) part»»»

LONDON: Serena Williams’ much-hyped comeback to professional tennis at the Queen’s Club lasted just one match. The 44-year-old Williams’ doubles partner, 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko, was forced to withdraw from the draw on Thursday because of a knee injury she sustained in a singles match a»»»

MOSCOW: British, French and German ambassadors to Russia held talks Thursday in Russia’s foreign ministry, several days after a London summit with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. The UK hosted Zelensky and the leaders of France and Germany earlier this week, supporting Kyiv’s call for direct talks wi»»»

Dubai: Travellers will get more flight options between Abu Dhabi, Germany and Asia after Etihad Airways and Condor expanded their strategic partnership with a new Bangkok service and a frequent flyer agreement. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Condor will launch flights»»»

Undertakings in a monopoly, dominant or collective dominant position were barred from quoting excessively high prices, Bulgaria's Parliament resolved on Thursday, passing conclusively amendments to the Protection of Competition Act moved by Progressive Bulgaria. The revisions define "exceedingly hi»»»

Milan, Italy: Carbon dioxide removal experts have sounded the alarm in Milan this week over a shortfall in research and investment in the nascent sector viewed as essential for mitigating climate change. Still marginal and costly, CO2 removal, known as CDR, consists of extracting the greenhouse gas»»»

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly chaired a meeting of the Economic Ministerial Group at the government headquarters in the New Capital on Tuesday, June 10, 2026, to review a number of priority economic issues and developments. The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Hu»»»

Who is Timur Turlov? Where did his billions come from? And how did he turn a small brokerage firm into a transnational financial ecosystem? Freedom Holding Corp. is a Kazakhstan-born international fintech company listed on the Nasdaq and valued at nearly $9 billion. In recent years, the company - w»»»

According to NASA, there is “unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate”, Statista reports. Data from Copernicus, the European Earth Observation program for the European Space Agency, shows that July 22, 2024, was the world’s hottest daily global average temperature since t»»»

The economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East is expected to slow growth across emerging Europe, Central Asia and parts of Africa and the Mediterranean, as higher energy costs reignite inflation, weaken industrial competitiveness and strain already fragile public finances, the European »»»

Who is going to pay for rebuilding Ukraine after the war is over? Now the EU has raised a €90bn two-year loan to keep the country in the fight against Russia, attention has started to turn to what comes next. The European Commission (EC) has drawn up a draft recovery plan for 2028-2034 but it falls»»»

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are set to dominate next week’s Group of Seven summit, as host France crafts an agenda aimed at projecting unity and avoiding confrontation with US President Donald Trump. The June 15–17 gathering in Evian-les-Bains, on the shore of Lake Geneva, brings together t»»»

LONDON — Stock markets mostly rallied Tuesday as investors returned to the AI trade, while easing Middle East tensions weighed on oil prices and the dollar.Bargain buying saw Seoul's Kospi stocks index rebound strongly after big losses Monday that had been sparked by prospects of a hike to US inter»»»

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are set to dominate next week’s Group of Seven summit, as host France crafts an agenda aimed at projecting unity and avoiding confrontation with US President Donald Trump. The June 15–17 gathering in Evian-les-Bains, on the shore of Lake Geneva, brings together t»»»

Doha, Qatar: From Uruguay captain Jose Nasazzi becoming the first man to lift the Jules Rimet Trophy in Montevideo in 1930 to Lionel Messi fulfilling his lifelong dream beneath the lights of Lusail Stadium in Qatar in 2022, FIFA World Cup finals have produced some of the most unforgettable moments »»»

Eastern European members of the European Union are facing mounting demographic pressure from population decline, ageing societies and persistently low birth rates, according to new data from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat, highlighting a widening demographic divide across the bloc. While the E»»»

When EI first invested in Anwim in 2018, the company operated 180 fuel stations. By the end of March 2026, the MOYA network had tripled to 540 locations, making it the third-largest and fastest-growing fuel station chain in Poland. Over the same period, Anwim evolved into a fully integrated player »»»

Tourists from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy made the largest contribution to foreign visitor spending in Romania. Together, they spent almost €2 billio, accounting for around 40% of the total. For the first time in 2025, American tourists were the biggest spenders, at €55»»»

America’s allies are getting an uncomfortable message from Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon contractor that manufactures one of the West’s most important air-defense missiles: don’t expect any timeline delivery guarantees. Even as the defense giant expands production of PAC-3 interceptors for the Patr»»»

On June 11, 1963, for a brief moment, Gov. George Wallace blocked the enrollment of two Black students to the University of Alabama. 1 of 5 | Alabama Gov. George Wallace blocks the enrollment of two Black students to the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. File Photo by Warren K. Leffler/U.S. N»»»

Twenty-two countries, including the US and European nations, have condemned what they called “lethal plots” and “malign actions” carried out by Iranian security services in Europe, North America and Australia. In a joint statement released by the US State Department on Wednesday, the countries accu»»»

The E3 European leaders met in London over the weekend to thrash out a new formula to take to the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the document they produced takes us all the way back to the very beginning of the process. It leads, like before, with a demand for an unconditional c»»»

Vladimir Zelensky is learning that even Ukraine’s most loyal backers may no longer be willing to overlook Kiev’s glorification of Nazi-backed nationalist figures – not even in the name of jointly opposing Russia. Warsaw, whose military and logistical support remains vital to Kiev’s war effort, has »»»

US spending on nuclear weapons surged by nearly a quarter in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to findings by an anti-nuclear watchdog. In a report released on Tuesday, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said the world’s nine nuclear-armed states spent nearly $»»»

BEIRUT: As Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs last March and residents fled in panic, one man found his opportunity. Amid the chaos, he slipped out of his imprisonment in a Hezbollah cell and made his way to the green hills overlooking the Lebanese capital. There, in the posh diplo»»»

The United States of America, the United Kingdom, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden condemned the lethal plotting and other malig»»»

Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly chaired a meeting of the Economic Ministerial Group in the New Administrative Capital to review key economic priorities, including progress under Egypt’s reform programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), inflation developments, investment reforms, »»»

The European Commission is investigating the Middle-East investment into the merger of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 10 (UPI) -- The European Commission is investigating the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discover»»»

The UN nuclear watchdog's governing board on Wednesday approved a western resolution demanding that Iran immediately provide information on its uranium stockpile and production facilities. Iran's nuclear sites have been targeted in US-Israel attacks and Iran has suspended access for International A»»»

VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed ​a US-backed resolution on Wednesday telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched uranium stocks and let inspectors verify them, which could complicate Washington’s talks with Tehran. The move came within hours of the US and Ir»»»

EU countries typically cast Russia as the enemy — using this narrative as “a foil to bring Europeans together” for costly rearmament that starves civilian industries, French geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon tells Sputnik. The regime in Ukraine is used as the pretext or “a casus belli»»»

The long-delayed €100 billion ($116 billion) project to develop a fully European next-generation fighter jet for NATO members has been formally abandoned. Despite citing the need to counter a perceived threat from Russia and strengthen Europe’s military, France and Germany have failed to overcome y»»»

Ajman: Thumbay Group today marked a major milestone in its commitment to advancing medical research and innovation with the groundbreaking of the Thumbay International Research Centre, a purpose-built, six-storey research facility in Al Jurf, Ajman. Designed to integrate scientific discovery, diagn»»»

Auchan Romania is hosting the 17th edition of its Beer Fair between 10 June and 14 July 2026, bringing together more than 300 varieties from local and international brands, including new products and limited special editions. The retailer says the event is the largest beer fair in Romanian retail. »»»

Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the EU aviation blacklist—for the first time in 20 years, domestic carriers have gained the right to fly to Europe. Airports of Kyrgyzstan OJSC told 24.kg news agency what this means in practice and when to expect the first flights. Three years under monitoring Rela»»»

Romanian startup Naratix has raised a EUR 1 million seed round from Early Game Ventures to accelerate growth and expand into new markets. The company develops AI-powered infrastructure that helps online retailers and marketplaces transform raw and incomplete product information into structured, sta»»»

As Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs last March and residents fled in panic, one man found his opportunity. Amid the chaos, he slipped out of his imprisonment in a Hezbollah cell and made his way to the green hills overlooking the Lebanese capital. There, in the posh diplomatic qu»»»

On June 10, 1940, Norway surrendered to Germany during World War II, with King Haakon and members of the government fleeing to Britain. 1 of 4 | German officers stand before Oslo's National Theater in 1940 after taking control of Norway during World War II. On June 10, 1940, Norway surrendered to G»»»

Doha, Qatar: Brazil made a historic move for this World Cup by appointing Carlo Ancelotti, becoming the first foreign manager to lead the Selecao in decades. The Italian has conquered Europe’s biggest leagues, winning domestic titles in England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy. He stands alone as »»»

The leaders of Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France and Germany emerged from Downing Street on June 7 with a joint statement that lays down five conditions to underpin any sustainable settlement to Russia's war. The list lays out the core terms of any peace deal before the G7 are due to meet at a su»»»

Significant progress has been made in many important areas over the past three weeks, the prime minister said on Tuesday evening in ATV’s Straight Talk programme, assessing the period since the formation of the government. Péter Magyar stated that in the future, anyone who submits intentionally fal»»»

Dubai: Dubai continues to cement its position as a top relocation hub for founders, executives, and high-net-worth individuals from Europe, North America, and Asia. The city's zero personal income tax regime is a headline attraction, yet experts warn that achieving full tax efficiency requires more»»»

France and Germany said on Monday they had agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet programme due to disagreements between the companies involved, in a blow to European efforts to boost defence cooperation. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Jeanette Süß, Research Fellow, Study Committee on Franco-G»»»