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«Auf ein Leben voller Liebe»: Speed-Ass feiert romantische Hochzeit

Blick.ch - Sun, 09/13/2026 - 07:30
Der nächste Ski-Star ist in den Hafen der Ehe gebraust. Ryan Cochran-Siegle hat seine langjährige Partnerin Jessie Lucas geheiratet.
Categories: Afrique, Swiss News

Press statement by President Costa following the meeting with Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk

Európai Tanács hírei - Sun, 09/13/2026 - 05:51
European Council President, António Costa, had a meeting with Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, on 9 September 2026, in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting is part of President Costa's annual "Tour des Capitales".

Press statement by President Costa following the meeting with Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Sun, 09/13/2026 - 05:51
European Council President, António Costa, had a meeting with Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, on 9 September 2026, in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting is part of President Costa's annual "Tour des Capitales".

Athletic Club forward Williams retires from Ghana duty

BBC Africa - Fri, 09/11/2026 - 18:18
Inaki Williams says the time has come to bring his journey with the Black Stars to an end four years after making his international debut.
Categories: Africa, Swiss News

DRAFT REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on EU-Norway political relations - PE791.099v01-00

DRAFT REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on EU-Norway political relations
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Łukasz Kohut

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

AMENDMENTS 103 - 404 - Draft report Shaping the EU's external action to address the human rights challenges posed by artificial intelligence - PE792.048v01-00

AMENDMENTS 103 - 404 - Draft report Shaping the EU's external action to address the human rights challenges posed by artificial intelligence
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Nacho Sánchez Amor

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

No time for lamentation: a new agenda for cooperation (Chair's summary of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2026)

The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) 2026 convened around 1,600 participants from 112 countries at a moment of profound disruption and redistribution of power. The HSC confirmed sustainability as the organizing framework linking peace and stability, economic
resilience and competitiveness, planetary boundaries and international cooperation. The rules-based international order is under pressure, fiscal space is shrinking and conflicts are multiplying, while climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion are compounding
these pressures on economies and societies already stretched thin. Yet the world has never possessed greater technological capabilities, financial wealth and scientific knowledge. What matters now is how we use these resources to deliver shared prosperity and resilience.
The discussions at HSC 2026 can be summarized along three narrative arcs. The first asks why cooperation remains essential in a more multipolar world. Legitimacy depends on changing the terms of North–South relations, broadening representation and building a cooperative multipolar order in which a wider group of actors can shape and defend common rules. The launch of the South–North Commission on Development offers a structured process for rethinking international cooperation toward fairer partnerships and a  sustainability Agenda beyond 2030. The second narrative arc examines what needs to change. Sustainability transformation pays
off economically, but only where investment can flow, risks are shared and governance is predictable. Nature and human capital are systematically undervalued. The bottleneck is the institutional and financing structures needed to unlock them at scale. The third narrative arc addresses how cooperation can deliver. It shows that partnerships accelerate sustainable development when they move from one-off initiatives to systems that mobilize finance, create markets and build local capabilities. Scaling Capital for Sustainable Development (SCALED), Innovative Capital Mobilization in Africa (ICAMA), critical-mineral and hydrogen partnerships, and urban examples from Mombasa and eThekwini show how tangible forms of cooperation can turn commitments into sustainable investment, deeper value chains and locally owned action. This shift is especially visible in Africa, where partnerships are increasingly framed around opportunity, value creation and agency. The road ahead runs through the Triple COP+ year, the G20 under UK chairmanship, and the SDG Summit in September 2027. HSC 2026 demonstrated that navigating the new - disruptive - normal is possible. The task now is to prove it at scale. […]

AMENDMENTS 1 - 102 - Draft report Shaping the EU's external action to address the human rights challenges posed by artificial intelligence - PE792.029v01-00

AMENDMENTS 1 - 102 - Draft report Shaping the EU's external action to address the human rights challenges posed by artificial intelligence
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Nacho Sánchez Amor

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections - PE790.817v02-00

OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Matjaž Nemec

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Washington Spirit sign Luvanga - but is it a record deal?

BBC Africa - Thu, 09/10/2026 - 18:10
Tanzanian striker Clara Luvanga has joined Washington Spirit from Al-Nassr in a deal believed to be one of the most costly in the history of women's football - and possibly one that sets a world record.
Categories: Africa, Swiss News

Dollar détonateur ?

Défense en ligne - Thu, 09/10/2026 - 16:49

« Carry trade »… C'est obscur. C'est névralgique. On sait déjà, entre « private credit » et krach IA, dans quel état est la finance. On ne sait pas si ce qui est en train de se passer sur les taux d'intérêt souverain, sur le front du change yen / dollar notamment, entre dans la catégorie des explosifs ou dans celle des détonateurs — peut-être bien un peu des deux.

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Categories: Défense, Swiss News

Press release - Press briefing on next week’s plenary session

Európa Parlament hírei - Thu, 09/10/2026 - 15:03
Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 14 – 17 September plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Russia to open more cultural centres in Africa as it seeks to broaden influence

BBC Africa - Thu, 09/10/2026 - 14:46
These centres will promote the Russian language, education, science and culture.
Categories: Africa, Swiss News

Sovereign trust funds for planned climate relocations

Climate-induced planned relocation is becoming an unavoidable policy issue for some highly exposed communities. Although relocation should remain a last resort after other realistic options for adaptation in place have been assessed, ensuring that the money is available when needed to support relocation is critical. The challenge is that funding is insufficient, drawn from diverse sources and often arrives too late and in fragmented forms: for example, one project for housing, another for infrastructure, and little predictable support for consultation, land negotiations, safeguards, livelihoods, host communities or long-term maintenance. The financing problem is therefore not only the scale of the costs, but the difficulty of organising money over time and across institutions and safeguards. This can leave governments reacting after crises rather than planning before risks become unmanageable.
Sovereign trust funds offer one practical way to address this gap. They do not create finance by themselves, but they can provide a country-owned platform for receiving, sequencing and reporting domestic revenue, bilateral support, multilateral development bank (MDB) finance, climate funds, disaster risk finance, and loss and damage resources. They present an alternative to predominantly loan- and grant-based financing for planned relocation. Fiji’s Climate Relocation of
Communities Trust Fund shows both the promise and limits of this approach: It provides a legal and institutional basis for relocation finance within government and links international funding to procedures, but it still requires capitalisation, administrative capacity and long-term technical support. The model presents an opportunity to support sovereign, rights-based financing systems rather than relying solely on donor-funded, often piecemeal relocation projects. It can also make funding available at the appropriate time and without undue time pressure.
Key policy messages:
• Finance planned relocation before a crisis, especially assessment, consent, land, safeguards and project preparation.
• Treat relocation as a long-term investment in the collective good, rather than solely as a construction or emergency response measure.
• Support sovereign trust funds where they are legally mandated at the national level, budget-linked, transparent and capitalised.
• Use finance to uphold quality and rights, including community-led processes, support for host communities and support for long-term livelihoods.

Agree to disagree: why the AU and the EU should engage in pragmatic partnerships

The AU–EU partnership should embrace the plurality within both unions, make interests transparent, and enable pragmatic cooperation between coalitions of willing countries, helping to bring proclaimed ambitions closer to actual practice, explain Benedikt Erforth and Lena Gutheil.

Press release - MEPs upgrade EU energy infrastructure rules to lower energy prices

Európa Parlament hírei - Thu, 09/10/2026 - 12:43
The update of the TEN-E regulation aims to boost security of energy supply, help lower prices for households and businesses, and contribute to the EU’s climate neutrality goals.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Video einer Ausschusssitzung - Donnerstag, 10. September 2026 - 09:00 - Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

Dauer des Videos : 30'

Haftungsausschluss : Die Verdolmetschung der Debatten soll die Kommunikation erleichtern, sie stellt jedoch keine authentische Aufzeichnung der Debatten dar. Authentisch sind nur die Originalfassungen der Reden bzw. ihre überprüften schriftlichen Übersetzungen.
Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2026 - EP

Video einer Ausschusssitzung - Donnerstag, 10. September 2026 - 07:30 - Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

Dauer des Videos : 90'

Haftungsausschluss : Die Verdolmetschung der Debatten soll die Kommunikation erleichtern, sie stellt jedoch keine authentische Aufzeichnung der Debatten dar. Authentisch sind nur die Originalfassungen der Reden bzw. ihre überprüften schriftlichen Übersetzungen.
Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2026 - EP

Video einer Ausschusssitzung - Donnerstag, 10. September 2026 - 07:00 - Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

Dauer des Videos : 30'

Haftungsausschluss : Die Verdolmetschung der Debatten soll die Kommunikation erleichtern, sie stellt jedoch keine authentische Aufzeichnung der Debatten dar. Authentisch sind nur die Originalfassungen der Reden bzw. ihre überprüften schriftlichen Übersetzungen.
Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2026 - EP

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