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Sep 17, 2025 - World

Miki Zohar says he will cancel funding for the Ophir awards after The Sea, about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who is denied entry to Tel Aviv, wins best pictureIsrael’s culture minister, Miki Zohar, has announced that funding for the Ophirs, the country’s national film awards, would be cancelled after The Sea, a film about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, won the best feature film prize.In a statement on X, translated by Israeli news media, Zohar said: “There is no greater slap in the face of Israeli citizens than the embarrassing and detached annual Ophir awards ceremony. Starting with the 2026 budget, this pathetic ceremony will no longer be funded by taxpayers’ money. Under my watch, Israeli citizens will not pay from their pockets for a ceremony that spits in the faces of our heroic soldiers.” Continue reading...

Sep 17, 2025 - World

Gideon Saar warns any action against his country ‘will receive an appropriate response’. This live blog is closedNordic correspondentDenmark is for the first time to buy long-range precision weapons such as missiles and drones, Mette Frederiksen has abruptly announced, as she warned “Russia is testing us”.There is no doubt that Russia will be a threat to Denmark and Europe for many years to come. Continue reading...

Sep 17, 2025 - World

Two army divisions work their way towards centre of Gaza City as further Israeli airstrikes destroy buildingsIsraeli troops pressed ahead with a ground offensive into Gaza City on Wednesday, making further efforts to force more people to flee their homes and travel to overcrowded and unsafe areas in the south of the devastated territory.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday they had carried out 150 air and artillery strikes ahead of the ground operation that began early on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...

Sep 17, 2025 - World

The United Kingdom is "desperate" to appease President Donald Trump, "shamelessly" giving him a made up ceremony and indulging in his "king fantasy" during his second state visit to Britain on Wednesday, according to media reports. "Trump demands spectacle, and Britain provides it. He wants to be king, and, for a day, Britain is letting him," Tom Sykes, European Editor At Large for the Daily Beast wrote. "It made up the entire ceremony from scratch from the elements of other royal spectacles."Trump attended an impressive military ceremony with multiple marching bands, horse-drawn carriages and plenty of royal pomp and circumstance during his second state visit to the United Kingdom. Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, greeted him and walked them to King Charles III and Queen Camilla amid a 41-gun salute."No foreign leader has ever been greeted with the degree of ceremonial extravagance, as Britain rolled out a show of pomp unmatched since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II," Sykes wrote. The pageantry was on full display, and Trump has made clear in the past — he loves it."And in doing this flagrant fakery, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely," Sykes wrote. The U.K. has taken a great effort "to engage with a president who has returned to office less interested than ever in maintaining the post-World War II order, and possibly divert him on key issues affecting the two nations," the New York Times reports. The ceremony Wednesday is a closed event at Windsor Castle. The president is reportedly being shielded by the public and protests happening in London and across the country in response to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the war in Gaza, tariffs, immigration and other international concerns, CNN reports.

Sep 17, 2025 - World

Leaders from Orbán to Le Pen have framed the shooting as evidence of persecution – a strategy that experts say could further normalise extremism across the continent• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereBefore his fatal shooting, few if any of the leaders of Europe’s resurgent far right had so much as mentioned the name of Charlie Kirk. Since last week, the propaganda potential of the conservative US activist’s killing has escaped none of them.Kirk, a rising star of Donald Trump’s Maga movement, was hit in the neck by a single bullet as he addressed students in Utah on 10 September. A 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been charged, but his alleged motives remain unclear. Continue reading...