Europe

Polls predict that an independent candidate, backed by the Pirates and the Greens, is likely to win the runoff against candidates backed by the right and the ruling party to become Slovenia's first female president

In line with developments elsewhere in Europe, alongside conventional reactors, the Finnish state-owned company Fortum (51%) will 'explore the prerequisites' for small modular reactors (SMRs)

The people of Ukraine, represented by their president, elected leaders and civil society, won the Sakharov Prize 2022, an annual award given by the European Parliament to organisations and individuals who defend freedom of thought and human rights

Liz Truss has said she will step down as prime minister, thrown into crisis by her economic programme that has shocked markets and divided the Conservative party; she is the PM with the shortest tenure in the country's history

A memorial plaque was dedicated at 12 Merrion Square in Dublin, on the site of her childhood home, for Violet Gibson, an anti-fascist revolutionary and women's rights activist who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926

Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called early elections for 1 November, seven months before the end of the legislature

The country has launched a recruitment campaign to hire 200 new police officers over the next five years, following growing complaints about a lack of security on the streets and overworked police staff

The Interior Minister and Greece’s Migration Minister declared that the two countries will tighten cooperation in order to fight the international smuggling mafia and protect the EU external borders

Belgospishcheprom food industry companies held a business meeting presenting Belarus's export potential, with seven heads of diplomatic missions and 37 representatives of the diplomatic corps from 27 countries

President Putin signed a decree for Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, introducing martial law in the annexed regions and also restricting movement in eight areas bordering Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine over the past eight days have destroyed 30% of the country's power plants, causing 'massive blackouts across the country', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted

The Technical Commission in charge of the strategic and environmental assessment for the new Lisbon airport will examine five solutions and may propose others, working on both single locations and dual solutions encompassing the existing facility