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Europe is in the midst of a social buzz. Like France, where the first high school movements started, several countries of the Union are facing waves of protest in the street. Italy, Belgium, Greece and Germany are experiencing events of varying magnitude.
The proliferation of false bomb alerts has created confusion throughout Europe. These incidents resemble new episodes of the hybrid war waged by some states such as Russia in Europe, but there is nothing to formally accuse Moscow. And then, there is this strange claim of the "male state fighters", a masculinist group that seems to be linked to an obscure Russian far-right network...
Officials across Europe reported a fresh slew of bomb threats against multiple flights on Friday, November 6, following a string of hoaxes that have caused flight diversions this week. Two broadcasters also received security threats, in a possible sign the menace was spreading beyond the skies. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi has more.
A series of false bomb alerts shake Europe on Friday, after dozens of similar warnings this week, targeting commercial flights but also media and mobilising security forces.
A series of false bomb alerts shake Europe on Friday, after dozens of similar warnings this week, targeting commercial flights but also media and mobilising security forces. The details of Michel Polacco, journalist specializing in the aviation and space sector.
A string of hoax alerts causing flight diversions across Europe this week has broadened to include newsrooms.
A growing wave of discontent is sweeping across Europe. What began in France as student protests over deteriorating school conditions, teacher shortages and an education system under pressure has quickly grown into something much bigger: a groundswell of discontent over the rising cost of living, unaffordable housing and struggling public services.
Trillions of dollars have been wiped off the stock value of major tech firms in the US, Europe and Asia. Investors appear worried about the possibility of an AI slowdown and tougher regulation as Democrats won the midterms in the US. Some of the Democratic candidates had expressed their opposition to the data centres that are needed to power AI technology.
Several Irish media outlets reported receiving bomb threats on Friday as a wave of hoax alerts that had so far mainly targeted airlines continued across Europe, with more than a dozen new flights affected. No explosives have been found in any of the incidents so far. European authorities are scrambling to identify the sources of the threats, as FRANCE 24's Brussels correspondent Dave Keating reports.
About 20 flights were disrupted this week in Europe after bomb alerts. Update on the situation
Scores of flights across Europe have received bomb threats this week, but no explosives have been found so far.
Anarchistic activists who dress in black and clash with police are a regular feature of protests from France to Albania.
Security inspections reveal no explosives as fighter jets escort planes amid Europe's major wave of bomb threats.
The results of the Russian strike, which hit a humanitarian aid distribution point in southern Ukraine on Monday, increased to 50 dead, announced aid on Friday, while bodies continue to be found under the rubble.
The death toll from Russia's bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 50, Kyiv's Emergency Service said on Friday, making it one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year.
US President Donald Trump said the Ukraine war was close to being settled and that ending it might involve "all of Europe." Trump has previously made several similar promises, with no resolution to the conflict in sight.
BBC Verify has been analysing messages after flights across Europe were targeted by fake bomb threats - the second such incident this week.
Bomb threats are causing travel disruptions at airports across Europe, targeting at least 27 flights.
Bomb alerts are increasing in the European sky. On Thursday, a Dublin-Rome flight was diverted to a French military base, escorted by two fighter aircraft. How do the authorities deal with these threats? Could these incidents be part of a strategy of hybrid attacks against Europe? Gérard Feldzer, a former airline pilot and aviation consultant, decrypts the procedures and issues involved in these alerts.
At least 21 flights across Europe are affected in what the UK government calls a "malicious hoax threat".
