Après avoir dirigé à différents postes la Serbie pendant 14 ans, le dirigeant nationaliste Aleksandar Vucic a reconnu dimanche soir sa défaite aux législatives anticipées. Le mouvement étudiant, qui a présenté une liste avec des candidats issus de la société civile, sans tête d'affiche, a remporté une victoire historique.
VW investment, creating 4,500 jobs in Georgia, comes amid Trump’s damaging tariffs, intense Chinese competition and costly shift towards EVs
Audi has said it will spend $4bn (£3bn) to build its first factory in the US, as its parent company, Volkswagen, struggles with the impact of steep tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.
The German brand’s chief executive, Gernot Döllner, joined Trump on stage at a campaign rally on Saturday night to announce the factory in Macon, Georgia, in an unusual move by a big European brand just days before the US midterm elections.
James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, in prison in Spain, has applied for asylum as US seeks extradition over alleged Hamas support
US authorities seized wealthy activist James “Fergie” Chambers’s cellphone at some point after Spanish police arrested him in July without notifying him or his attorneys, the Guardian has learned.
Chambers, a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects, is imprisoned in Madrid. His case is the first known instance of the US seeking to extradite a citizen over alleged support for Hamas, an accusation tied to money Chambers has donated to support Palestinians, including the Sameer Project, in Gaza.
Les Serbes votent, dimanche, pour des législatives anticipées, réclamées par un puissant mouvement étudiant qui présente une liste face au président Aleksandar Vucic. Les manifestants espèrent faire de ce scrutin un "référendum anti-Vucic", deux ans après la mort de 16 personnes dans l’effondrement d’un auvent à Novi Sad en 2024.
But Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX owns Starlink, accuses Ukrainian military of violating the company’s terms
Ukraine’s military has a “stable connection to Starlink”, the Ukrainian government said, 10 days after its ability to use the satellite communications system was suddenly restricted.
But hours after the announcement, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whose company owns Starlink, accused the Ukrainian military of violating the company’s terms. Neither Musk nor the US government, which operates Starshield using Starlink technology, took responsibility for imposing the curbs.
Ordinary Ukrainians are now the targets of Russia’s bombs and drones as Putin gets more help from the US president, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
The basketball star seems proud to leave the job to his partner. That’s so last century
Nobody can accuse the basketball star LaMelo Ball of being bad at his job. That said, the Minnesota Timberwolves point guard doesn’t seem to be a huge fan of dribbling.
Ball has a nine-month-old son, LaOne, with his partner Ana Montana (real name: Analicia Chaves) and is apparently uninterested in dealing with all the body fluids that come with a baby.
L'Ukraine a affirmé, samedi, avoir retrouvé une "connexion stable" au système de communication Starshield, la déclinaison militaire de Starlink, essentielle à son armée. Kiev fait état d'une "vitesse supérieure à 400 km/h", après que Donald Trump a assuré la veille qu'Elon Musk avait rétabli l'accès au réseau.
L'Italie se prépare à une nouvelle journée de manifestations, samedi, contre les coupes budgétaires et la vie chère, dans huit villes dont Rome et Milan. Après les violences du week-end dernier, les autorités prévoient un important dispositif de sécurité, avec notamment des drones et des hélicoptères pour surveiller les cortèges.
Austria has ordered four Russian diplomats to leave the country over suspected espionage, declaring them persona non grata following findings by Austrian security authorities, Austrian media outlet Heute reported on 23 October.
The expulsions come as European countries step up efforts to counter suspected Russian intelligence operations amid Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Three of the diplomats worked at the Russian Embassy in Vienna, while the fourth served in Russia’s delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is headquartered in Vienna.
Austria’s Foreign Ministry said the four had engaged in “activities incompatible with their diplomatic status,” a term usually used for spying, Reuters reported. It did not disclose details of the alleged activities or the intelligence findings behind the decision.
The three embassy diplomats were declared persona non grata under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The fourth, who worked on military security and arms control at Russia’s OSCE delegation, was also ordered to leave Austria.
Vienna remains a hub for Russian intelligence
The latest expulsions bring the number of Russian diplomats Austria has expelled since 2020 to 18, according to Reuters. In May 2026, Austria expelled three Russian Embassy employees suspected of using antennas on diplomatic buildings to intercept satellite internet data transmitted by international organizations based in Vienna.
Vienna’s concentration of international organizations, including the OSCE and United Nations agencies, has made it a key location for intelligence activity. A 2024 report by The Wall Street Journal, described Vienna as a major Russian spy hub for operations targeting Western countries, including surveillance of arms supplies to Ukraine.
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Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dmitry Lyubinsky said Moscow’s response to the expulsions was unavoidable, according to Russian state news agency TASS, AP reported.
Nous recevons Clément Beaune, ancien conseiller spécial du Président Emmanuel Macron puis secrétaire d’État aux Affaires européennes, ancien ministre des Transports et désormais Haut-commissaire à la Stratégie et au Plan. Il vient de diriger l’ouvrage Comment vivrons-nous en France demain ? paru le 8 octobre aux éditions Tallandier. Il évoque le rôle de l’Union Européenne dans le soutien à l’Ukraine, la concurrence économique chinoise ou encore les mouvements sociaux qui agitent le continent.
People in Russian-occupied city facing severe shortages of food, water and electricity, with some reportedly surviving on weeds
The White House has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, where a deepening humanitarian crisis has left thousands of civilians struggling to survive.
In a statement on Friday, the White House said both sides had agreed to halt all military operations in the city from 27 October to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and preparations for the evacuation of civilians.
Le budget à long terme de l’Union européenne sera au centre des prochains sommets européens. Les Vingt-Sept n’arrivent pas à s’entendre sur les recettes et les dépenses souhaitables entre 2028 et 2034. La proposition de la Commission européenne est toujours de 2 000 milliards d’euros, soit 1,26 % du PNB de l’UE.
La Première dame des États-Unis, Melania Trump, a affirmé vendredi avoir obtenu un cessez-le-feu à Olechky, une ville du front ukrainien occupée par les forces russes depuis 2022, et où la situation humanitaire est critique. Moscou et Kiev ont confirmé l'annonce.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) warned that Russia may stage sabotage in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Baltic states, and blame Ukraine for the attacks, in a Telegram post on 23 October.
The warning comes three days after The Wall Street Journal reported that US intelligence traces Europe’s sabotage wave to Putin’s personal order. If Russia stages new attacks and pins them on Ukraine, as HUR warns, European anger could turn on Kyiv rather than the Kremlin. This goes further than HUR’s statement on 2 October, which named potential Russian targets in Europe but did not mention a plan to blame Ukraine for attacks.
HUR says Moscow wants to discredit Ukraine’s army
Russia is stepping up its hybrid strategy to destabilize the European Union, according to HUR. The agency identified two aims: reducing foreign support for Ukraine by discrediting its Defense Forces, and intimidating European governments and societies.
The accusations would be spread through Russian propaganda channels and international platforms accessible to the Kremlin.
Potential targets include infrastructure and Russian Orthodox Church sites
HUR listed several potential targets for Russian provocations:
critical infrastructure and areas bordering Russia;
the Kaliningrad exclave;
areas of EU countries with Russian-speaking populations;
Kremlin-controlled sites, including properties belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church network;
historical sites associated with Russia.
The list reflects HUR’s assessment of potential targets, not confirmation that attacks at these locations are planned.
Earlier warnings and reported sabotage
On 2 October, HUR said Russian intelligence services had been ordered to increase activity in EU and NATO countries. It named military facilities, critical infrastructure, communications systems, and Starlink ground stations as potential targets and said it had alerted partners.
Warnings of Russian false flags on NATO’s eastern flank predate HUR’s. In August, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed European intelligence official, that Russia might expand hybrid attacks against Poland and the Baltic states, including false-flag attacks. A European government official separately told the agency that the CIA had warned countries in the region of a possible Russian attack. Lithuania’s military intelligence had warned earlier in August that Moscow might reassemble captured Ukrainian drones for false-flag strikes on critical infrastructure in the Baltic region.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported on 20 October that US intelligence agencies believe the attempted drone attack on Leipzig-Halle Airport in Germany in early August was among the opening shots of a sabotage campaign ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Journal cited European officials briefed on the intelligence findings.
According to the newspaper, at least three drones carrying military-grade Semtex explosives were involved. One struck an Antonov cargo plane used to transport military aid to Ukraine but failed to explode. Another collided with a different aircraft, while a third detonated near the airport perimeter. German newspaper Welt am Sonntag has since named two suspects, citing German investigation files. Earlier German media reports described the sequence differently.
The Journal also reported sabotage attacks on Starlink stations in Poland, Lithuania, and Bulgaria in recent weeks. In August, Slovak authorities said they had foiled a planned arson attack on a Ukrainian drone factory, the Journal reported.
Russia denies involvement in sabotage in Europe. Responding to Berlin’s accusations over the Leipzig incident in early September, Putin asked where the evidence was.
Exclusive: Documents show German party’s scramble to request support after president’s 2016 election win and co-leader’s pursuit of Steve Bannon
A data leak from Germany’s far-right German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has revealed the extent of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and other leading figures in the Maga movement, stretching back more than a decade.
The trove reveals the pains the AfD took in wooing the president, whom they saw from the beginning as a potential ally, with senior party officials agonising over the wording of an obsequious congratulatory telegram when he was elected in 2016, which included the wish that his “hopes as a person be fulfilled”.
L'Ukraine a affirmé vendredi que des restrictions affectaient toujours le système de communication Starshield, la déclinaison militaire de Starlink, essentiel pour l'armée ukrainienne, dont Donald Trump avait affirmé la veille qu'Elon Musk avait rétabli l'accès.
The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.
L'attitude de Moscou reste inchangée, a estimé jeudi le président ukrainien après une rencontre avec l'émissaire américain Steve Witkoff, en déplacement à Oslo. Sur le terrain, des frappes nocturnes ont fait de nouvelles victimes en Ukraine, malgré une relance de la diplomatie.
Fox News and others have toed president’s line – seemingly hoping unrest abroad will make people vote Republican
Donald Trump sought to capitalize on the scenes of unrest in France, telling a crowd in Kansas on Monday that “migrants” and “communists” were responsible, and that the scenes were “what the radical ‘Dumocrats’ want to do to America”.
As Republicans struggle to convince voters across the country ahead of November’s midterm elections, Trump’s allies in the conservative media have followed suit, seemingly hoping that the scenes in France can scare people to the polls.
Europe’s leaders can no longer trust a word that comes out of Washington. No more slaps on the wrist – we need concrete steps to punish Trump
Historical comparisons are always inexact. No one conflict precisely mirrors another. Yet Donald Trump’s shameless appeasement of Vladimir Putin carries more than a noxious whiff of Neville Chamberlain’s failed attempt in Munich in 1938 to head off war with Nazi Germany. To be fair to the former UK prime minister – and history largely hasn’t been – his peacemaking efforts had the enthusiastic backing of most people in Britain and France who, like him, were desperate to avoid a repeat of the horrors of the first world war. Trump enjoys no equivalent public support for his treachery. Nor does he face the prospect of a US war with Russia. His betrayal of Ukraine is cynically self-interested, globally dangerous and utterly contemptible.
US-Russian talks on agreeing the shoddy terms of a precedent-setting American sell-out of Ukraine are at an advanced stage, after meetings in St Petersburg this week. Trump has zigzagged over the war ever since returning to office. Now, panicked by record-low poll ratings, he seems determined to scapegoat Ukraine and force its de facto capitulation. Recent steps – his shocking decision to fund Putin’s war machine by buying Russian diesel, his waiving of tougher sanctions, his mysterious, lethal interruptions in US satellite and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, and his renewed attempt to oust Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – mark Trump out as the skulking Judas, the craven Brutus of the modern age. He makes Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle. All that’s lacking is an umbrella.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
Le Parlement européen a décerné jeudi son prix Sakharov 2026, récompense honorant le combat pour la démocratie et la liberté de pensée, à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI).
Experts say Russia is trying to destroy energy infrastructure before winter and US ‘appeasement and flattery’ will not achieve peace
Russia has carried out a massive “demonstrative” attack on Ukraine, bombarding Kyiv with ballistic missiles just hours after Vladimir Putin said he had agreed to resume trilateral negotiations after talks with the US envoy Steve Witkoff.
Overnight, Moscow pounded the Ukrainian capital, killing at least two people and wounding 22, including four children. Targets included the southern bridge over the Dnipro River, civilian houses, energy infrastructure, an ambulance station, office buildings and a clinic.
Environ 200 manifestants pour le droit au logement ont dormi à la belle étoile dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à Lisbonne, deux jours après le démantèlement de leur campement par les forces de l'ordre. Inspirés par les mobilisations espagnoles, ils entendent dénoncer la crise du logement au Portugal.
Au moins sept personnes ont été tuées en Ukraine dans une série de frappes dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi, qui ont notamment touché la capitale Kiev. De son côté, Moscou a annoncé avoir abattu 808 drones ukrainiens. Ces échanges de tirs interviennent plusieurs heures après des pourparlers russo-américains en vue de mettre fin à la guerre avec l'Ukraine. Suivez notre direct.
La chambre basse du Parlement irlandais a approuvé mercredi un projet de loi visant à supprimer un mécanisme empêchant le déploiement à l'étranger de soldats irlandais sans l'autorisation des Nations unies. Le Premier ministre déplore un "Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU paralysé", défendant la volonté de répondre à des crises, quand l'opposition craint pour la neutralité militaire du pays.
Léon XIV a subi une intervention chirurgicale pour retirer un nodule, le 13 octobre. Les résultats des examens ont montré que le cancer du souverain pontife "était localisé" et "qu'aucun traitement supplémentaire n'était nécessaire", rapportent ses médecins dans un communiqué publié mercredi par le Vatican.
Since high school students began protesting in France in September, they’ve been joined by young demonstrators in at least seven other European countries.
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