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John Elkann, pictured at the F1 Grand Prix on the weekend
Ferrari chair to do community service over tax case
MILAN — The chair of Ferrari and Stellantis has agreed to do one year of community service and jointly pay millions of euros to settle a dispute over inheritance tax in Italy.John Elkann and his siblings Lapo and Ginerva will pay €183m (£159m) to Italian tax authorities, Italian prosecutors said, according to multiple media reports.Elkann's lawyer said the agreement did not include an admission of liability from the Ferrari chair and his siblings.He said the prosecutors' decisions were an opportunity to bring "this painful affair to a swift and definitive close".Elkann, a member of one of the most powerful families in Italy, is the grandson of Gianni Agnelli, the former boss of Fiat.The tax dispute relates to the estate of Elkann's grandmother, Marella...
September 09, 2025

Ferrari chair to do community service over tax case

People walk in Independent Square during sunset in Minsk
Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network in Europe
PRAGUE — The Czech Republic's counter-intelligence agency said on Monday that it has broken up a spy network being built in Europe by Belarus in a joint operation with the intelligence services of Hungary and Romania.The Czech agency, also known as BIS, said in a statement that a team of European agents discovered spies in several European countries from Belarus' main security agency, KGB.It said a former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence service SIS who handed over classified information to KGB was among them.The Czechs also expelled a Belarusian agent who was operating under the cover of a diplomat. That person was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Monday.The Czech agency said Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats...
September 09, 2025

Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network in Europe

French Prime Minister François Bayrou addresses the National Assembly, prior to a parliamentary confidence vote
French PM François Bayrou loses crucial confidence vote in parliament
PARIS — French Prime Minister François Bayrou and his minority government have collapsed after losing a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Monday.Of the 573 lawmakers who sit in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, 364 voted against Bayrou, 194 voted for and there were 15 abstentions.A government source said Bayrou, the first prime minister in modern France's history to be removed in a confidence vote rather than a no-confidence vote, will submit his resignation on Tuesday.The Élysée Palace said President Emmanuel Macron had "taken note" of the results of the vote and said a new prime minister would be named "in the next few days."Bayrou, appointed less than a year ago after conservative politician and former Brexit negotiator...
September 09, 2025

French PM François Bayrou loses crucial confidence vote in parliament

Frédéric Péchier has been at liberty since he was charged with the poisonings
French doctor goes on trial for poisoning 30 patients, 12 fatally
PARIS — A former anaesthetist has gone on trial in the city of Besançon, in eastern France, accused of intentionally poisoning 30 people, including 12 patients who died.Frédéric Péchier, 53, considered by colleagues to be a highly-talented practitioner, was first placed under investigation eight years ago, when he was suspected of poisoning patients at two clinics in the city between 2008 and 2017.Despite the serious charges against him, Péchier has remained at liberty under judicial supervision and told French radio on Monday there was "no proof of any poisoning".The trial is set to last more than three months and involves more than 150 civil parties representing the 30 alleged victims.Allegations of poisoning emerged in January 2017, when a 36-year-old patient called...
September 08, 2025

French doctor goes on trial for poisoning 30 patients, 12 fatally

Billboard in Milan for final farewell to Giorgio Armani
Thousands pay their last respects to Giorgio Armani, private funeral on Monday
MILAN — More than 15 thousand people arrived from all over Italy in Milan to pay their last respects to Giorgio Armani during the weekend.The funeral chamber for the designer who died at the age of 91 on Thursday was set up at the Armani Theatre, the venue for the Prêt-à-porter shows of the fashion house founded fifty years ago.On Saturday, more than six thousand people entered the theatre set up with candles and white roses, including the mayor of Milan and fashion designer Donatella Versace. On Sunday, the queue to enter the chamber began at seven in the morning.Also arriving for Armani's final farewell were fashion designers Luisa Lusardi of Max Mara, Santo Versace, Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2 and the president of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, who described the designer as...
September 08, 2025

Thousands pay their last respects to Giorgio Armani, private funeral on Monday

The Panama-registered MV Matthew was bought by drug cartels in August 2023
Huge drugs bust reveals battles on cocaine 'superhighway'
DUBLIN — The text message came with a Santa emoji. "OK lads. No need for luck. Really this couldn't be any more straightforward. Just relax and this will all be over soon."It was sent to a fisherman from Ukraine and an unemployed man from Teesside who were sailing to the middle of the Irish Sea to collect cocaine from a passing cargo ship, the MV Matthew.As it turned out, they needed plenty of luck and very little was straightforward.The two men were part of an audacious attempt to traffic more than 2.2 tons of cocaine into the UK and Europe. It ended in failure, with a successful strike against the powerful drug cartels by the Irish authorities.Eight men were convicted and jailed for a total of 129 years. All of the cocaine was destroyed.But despite this result, law...
September 08, 2025

Huge drugs bust reveals battles on cocaine 'superhighway'

Donald Trump
European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says
WASAHINGTON — European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin "soon", as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the sanctions were the "right idea", and urged European nations to stop buying Russian energy.It comes as Russia launched its largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine of the war so far, killing four and hitting Ukraine's main government building in Kyiv for the first time.After the attack, during which Russia fired at least 810 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine, Trump said he was...
September 08, 2025

European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says

Angela Rayner arrives for a cabinet meeting in Downing Street, 26 March, 2025
Angela Rayner resigns as UK deputy prime minister over stamp duty underpayment
LONDON — The UK's deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, resigned on Friday after an independent inquiry found that she did not meet the ethical standards required for government ministers over a recent home purchase.On Wednesday, Rayner admitted that she did not pay enough tax on the purchase of an apartment in Hove on England’s south coast,Rayner then referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards, Laurie Magnus, who delivered his report to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday.She said she "deeply regrets the error" and was "committed to resolving this matter fully and providing the transparency that public service demands."A clearly emotional Rayner told Sky News that complications regarding "complex living arrangements were stoked...
September 05, 2025

Angela Rayner resigns as UK deputy prime minister over stamp duty underpayment

Oil pumping units in Kazan, Russia
Trump pushes Europe to stop buying Russian oil, up pressure on China in effort to end Ukraine war
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump told a meeting of world leaders Thursday that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil and put economic pressure on China to try to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, a White House official told CNN, as the administration seemed to put the onus on its allies to get more involved in stopping the conflict.Trump made the comments in a Thursday call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,” a group of Ukrainian allies trying to end the war and provide security for Ukraine from future attacks.Following the call, French President Emmanuel Macron said that 26 countries have promised to contribute to a potential peacekeeping force if a ceasefire deal is finalized –...
September 05, 2025

Trump pushes Europe to stop buying Russian oil, up pressure on China in effort to end Ukraine war

Several men inspect the mangled metal of a crashed train carriage.
Out of control: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash
LISBON – It was just after 18:00 on Wednesday when a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular careened around the bend of a steep cobblestoned street, crashed into a building, and crumpled, eyewitnesses said.The carriage "lost control", descending at full speed and crashing on its side, Helen Chow, who was at the base of the hill, told the BBC.It sounded like a bomb, she said, followed by "complete scary silence...There was pitch black smoke. Once it dissipated, you saw exactly what happened."People were frantic and crying, with others running to help, she described."It was awful," she said. "I am shaken."Police are still investigating the cause of the crash, which killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, near...
September 04, 2025

Out of control: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash

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