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11+ min ago (265+ words) Ryanair has announced a record summer schedule for Glasgow Airport - and two new routes. The budget airline will operate 100 weekly flights to and from the airport across eight routes in summer 2026, including 2 new routes to London Stansted and Warsaw. Through the schedule, Ryanair will deliver over 200,000 additional low fare seats to and from Glasgow - marking a growth of over 50%. Chris Tibbett, Aero Director at AGS Airports, said: "This new flight to London Stansted further strengthens the airport's vast choice of options from Glasgow to five London airports. "The double daily schedule will appeal to business travellers commuting between England's innovation corridor and Scotland's dynamic economic powerhouse, whilst we look forward to welcoming holidaymakers from the East of England keen to sample Glasgow's warm hospitality and the great outdoors of West Scotland. Ryanair flight 'came within six minutes of running out…...

19+ min ago (305+ words) This week, defence ministers from Germany, France and Spain are trying again to unblock the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS " a sixth-generation fighter jet, drone and data network project that has been stuck for years. On paper, FCAS is Europe's most ambitious defence project: a stealthy new fighter to replace Rafale and Eurofighter, flanked by unmanned "loyal wingmen" drones and tied together by a secure "combat cloud" so aircraft, satellites and ground units can share data. The estimated bill is about "100 billion, with thousands of high-skilled industrial jobs at stake. The latest crisis comes from inside Germany. IG Metall, the powerful metalworkers' union, has warned Berlin that it will stop cooperating with FCAS if France's Dassault Aviation keeps insisting on exclusive leadership of the fighter jet. German officials and Airbus say they want a fairer share of work and…...

56+ min ago (555+ words) Every Jewish family has a tale to tell of emigration: usually forced out of their country by pogroms, poverty and, of course, the Holocaust. Or perhaps making aliyah or simply relocating elsewhere for a better life. My family are no exception with ancestors from Austria (though their home town is now in Ukraine), Russia and Poland. No surprises there, I thought, until I read on an ancestry site about the "Lincolnshire Farmers. I knew of Rachel " her grave is in a Jewish cemetery in Enfield and she shares her first name with my eldest child. But I had absolutely no idea she'd been whisked off to Paraguay as a toddler on what turned out to be a disastrous adventure. Once they got to Paraguay, in 1872, the 900 were sent off, in cattle carts, mainly to the town of Itap" where they…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago (416+ words) Trending News: A bizarre maritime incident involving 16 shipping containers of fruit causes a major delay for P&O's Iona cruise ship, halting departures in Southampton's Solent....

2+ hour, 32+ min ago (1133+ words) The news comes after Iceland became the fifth country to boycott the 2026 Contest over Israel's participation, joining Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia. The director of Eurovision has said he "respects" the decision by Ireland and several other countries to boycott the 2026 event over Israel's participation and hopes they will return "soon." In the open letter published today, Eurovision Song Contest director Martin Green told fans in the boycotting countries "your broadcasters, like all our Members, made a decision that was right for them and contributed to the debate with great dignity." "We will continue to work with them as friends and colleagues in the hope they return to the Contest soon," Green said. After a General Assembly last week, the EBU reported a sizeable majority of members felt that a vote on Israel's participation was unnecessary. Following the report,…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago (462+ words) Slew of allegations of sexual harassment hits party already battered by corruption claims and political setbacks Spain's ruling socialist party, which has been battered by a barrage of corruption allegations and political setbacks, is scrambling to reassert its feminist credentials after being accused of failing to act on sexual misconduct by senior men in the party. Pedro S'nchez appointed 11 women and six men to his cabinet when he became prime minister in 2018, saying his Spanish Socialist Workers' party (PSOE) was "unmistakably committed to equality" and to reflecting recent changes in Spanish society. But seven years on a slew of allegations of sexual harassment " and the PSOE's response to them " have led some women in the party to call for urgent action. The party's travails date back to July, when Francisco Salazar, who had overseen institutional coordination at the Moncloa palace…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago (221+ words) Trina Solar and Holosolis signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the recent France'China summit, consolidating the Chinese manufacturer's role as a key partner in a plan to manufacture 5 GW of solar cells and panels a year. Trina Solar and Holosolis have signed a cooperation agreement for Holosolis' French gigafactory. Chinese solar panel manufacturer Trina Solar and French company Holosolis, created in 2023 by InnoEnergy group and two other partners, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement during the France-China summit. During the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jingping to solidify the two countries' cooperation on a range of infrastructure projects. The details of agreement and the amount of the investment to be made by the Chinese manufacturing giant in the French project have not been communicated. In addition to its financial and industrial participation, Trina explained…...

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3+ hour, 23+ min ago (351+ words) MADRID " A fresh wave of arrests and raids by Spain's Civil Guard has shaken Madrid as the National Court opens an investigation into alleged irregularities in public procurement linked to SEPI, a state-owned industrial holding. The Civil Guard's elite Central Operative Unit (UCO) on Thursday detained businessman Anxton Alonso, following the arrest the previous evening of former socialist official Leire D'ez and ex-SEPI president Vicente Fern'ndez. SEPI, Spain's state industrial holding founded in 1995, manages public assets "in the public interest." It controls 14 companies, ranging from shipbuilding firm Navantia to postal company Correos, and holds minority or indirect stakes in more than 100 others. Public broadcaster RTVE reported that the three arrests are tied to suspected manipulation of SEPI contracts within the broader kickback-for-contracts scheme engulfing Prime minister Pedro S'nchez's Socialist Party (PSOE), known as the Koldo case. Following the arrests, UCO…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago (277+ words) The biggest walkout in a decade is expected to shutter public services and cause severe travel disruption in Portugal Portugal is bracing for widespread disruption on Thursday as a major strike, orchestrated by the nation's two principal trade union confederations, threatens to paralyse transport, public services, and healthcare. The industrial action, which could mark the country's largest walkout in over a decade, involves nearly a million Portuguese workers. The proposed changes include making it easier for companies to fire workers, denying the right to strike in additional sectors of the economy and limiting breastfeeding breaks for mothers to the first two years of a baby's life from the current open-ended dispensation. Portugal has one of the European Union's smallest economies and its workers are among the lowest paid in the 27-nation bloc. The average monthly wage is around 1,600 euros ($1,870) before…...