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French President Emmanuel Macron railed against "stupid" comments made by foreign leaders for their political gains. Meanwhile, Paris police impose restrictions on gatherings in key areas in the city.
French President Emmanuel Macron railed against "stupid" comments made by foreign leaders for their political gains. Meanwhile, Paris police impose restrictions on gatherings in key areas in the city.
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<p>Former speaker is latest target of mailings sent to various Congress members in the lead-up to the midterm elections</p><p>California representative Nancy Pelosi’s office received “a suspicious letter” on Wednesday in what appears to be the latest incident of ill-intentioned mailings targeted at US Congress members before the midterm elections.</p><p>The offices of more than three dozen members of Congress across the political spectrum have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/19/white-powder-envelopes-congress">received envelopes</a> containing white powder in recent days. One lawmaker’s office said preliminary tests indicated the powder was not hazardous.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/nancy-pelosi-office-letter-white-powder">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Musk says ‘there’s a lot of merit’ to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but he declined to elaborate </p><p>Investors were paying close attention to Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday afternoon, after chief executive Elon Musk floated the idea of merging the car company with his rocket and AI company, SpaceX. But they didn’t glean further information after the company announced there would be no questions on the matter.</p><p>“With regard to a potential merger with SpaceX, I think I said everything that should be said yesterday,” Musk, the CEO of both companies, said on Tesla’s earnings call. He repeated a phrase he said on Tuesday: “I feel like I’m tap dancing through a minefield.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/elon-musk-tesla-spacex">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Committee cites shortfalls of submarines and warships and says ‘dramatic progress’ needed by end of decade</p><p>Britain risks failing to deter future Russian aggression in the high north beyond the UK because of shortfalls in the number and availability of Royal Navy submarines and warships, MPs on the defence select committee have said.</p><p>The committee focused on the slow deployment of HMS Dragon to Cyprus this spring, declining numbers of frigates, and reports that all five Astute-class attack submarines were in dock this summer as evidence of a navy under-resourced for the threat.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/22/uk-risk-russian-aggression-lack-submarines-warships-mps-warn">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Some in UK’s security services questioned why Welsh Labour firebrand was of interest</p><p>Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the Welsh Labour firebrand who spearheaded the creation of the NHS, was monitored by security services for more than two decades, though his personal file was “remarkably tame”, according to official files released to the public.</p><p>Bevan came to MI5’s attention in the 1930s over concerns about his links with known communists, papers released to the<a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/"> National Archives </a>show. Monitoring continued even after he became a minister in the postwar Labour government that created the NHS.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/22/aneurin-bevans-personal-security-file-was-remarkably-tame-national-archives">Continue reading...</a>