Month: October 2025

Sweden has a problem with gang crime – minors are often involved. (archive)Image: EPA In Sweden, which is plagued by serious gang crime, offenders as young as 13 are to be housed in youth prisons from next summer. October 28, 2025, 03:51October 28, 2025, 03:51 The government in Stockholm had long ago commissioned the state […]

Donald Trump meets Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.Image: keystone The USA and Japan want to further strengthen their security alliance. The Japanese also want to upgrade. October 28, 2025, 04:03October 28, 2025, 06:05 The USA and Japan want to cooperate more closely in the future in the extraction, processing and delivery of rare earths. […]

Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. The giant company is now cutting around 14,000 administrative jobs. October 28, 2025, 11:02 amOctober 28, 2025, 11:02 am The US company Amazon wants to cut thousands of jobs in its administration. According to the company, around 14,000 jobs will be cut as part of comprehensive […]

In camouflage: Vladimir Putin announces the completion of the new Burevestnik cruise missile.Image: keystone A nuclear-powered cruise missile called the Petrel is the latest Russian weapon creation. According to the Kremlin, it was recently successfully tested. However, experts question the benefits and quality of Putin’s prestige project. October 28, 2025, 08:02October 28, 2025, 08:22 The […]

October 28, 2025, 07:24October 28, 2025, 07:24 In the USA, another decommissioned nuclear power plant is being restarted to provide electricity for AI data centers. The Duane Arnold Energy Center in the state of Iowa is scheduled to go back online in early 2029 and primarily supply Google. The power plant was shut down in […]

Vladimir Putin has ambitions in the Arctic – much to the dismay of Norway and NATO.Image: keystone A new front in the power struggle between Russia and NATO is looming around the Arctic Circle. Putin is likely to concentrate his forces in the Arctic. October 28, 2025, 04:20October 28, 2025, 04:20 Finn Michalski / t-online […]

Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile that it said is capable of traveling thousands of miles. Trump countered that there is a US nuclear submarine off Russia’s coast.

A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down and set on fire in 2020 during social justice protests in Washington has been reinstalled under orders from President Donald Trump. General Albert Pike’s statue has long been a source of controversy, as have many Confederate monuments across the US which were erected decades after […]

Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Getty Images Only 64 countries have submitted new plans to cut carbon, the UN says, despite all being required to do so ahead of next month’s COP30 summit. Added together these national pledges would fail to keep the world from warming by more than 1.5C, a key threshold to very dangerous levels […]

Rayhan Demytrie,in Tbilisi and Tom Burgess,North East and Cumbria Rustavi 2 Bella Culley, pictured at a previous hearing, appeared at Tbilisi City Court on drugs charges The family of a “heavily pregnant” British teenager who is on trial for drug smuggling in Georgia has paid £137,000 to reduce her sentence. Bella Culley, 19, from Billingham, […]