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These Are The European Countries With The Newest Cars

Europe’s roads reveal a striking divide between countries where drivers regularly replace their vehicles and those where aging, secondhand cars remain the norm, according to a new report from ecarstrade.com. 

New research from B2B automotive company eCarsTrade compared vehicle fleets across more than 30 European countries and found Luxembourg sitting comfortably at the top of the rankings for the continent’s newest cars.

Nearly 43% of Luxembourg’s registered vehicles are less than five years old, the highest proportion in the study. At the other end of the age spectrum, only about 6% of its cars have been on the road for 20 years or longer. The country also replaces vehicles unusually quickly, with its annual fleet renewal rate topping 10%. Roughly 7% of Luxembourg’s cars are now fully electric.

Belgium ranked second. More than one-third of its cars are less than five years old, while the country added roughly 456,000 new vehicles in 2024. Its fleet renewal rate is about 7.5%, among the strongest in Europe. Electrification is also becoming more prominent: roughly 5% of Belgium’s total fleet is electric, while EVs account for around 28% of new registrations.

Denmark placed third, with approximately 28% of its cars less than five years old and only around 6% at least 20 years old. But Denmark stands out even more when it comes to the transition toward electric vehicles. More than half of new vehicles sold there are fully electric, and battery-powered cars already account for roughly 12% of the country's entire fleet.

The United Kingdom came in fourth. Britain has an especially small population of very old cars, with fewer than 5% of vehicles aged 20 years or more, the lowest share measured in the study. Nearly 2 million new cars were registered in 2024, helping keep the country's annual fleet renewal rate near 6%. EVs represented about 19% of new registrations, although they still make up a relatively small share of all vehicles currently on British roads.

Norway rounded out the top five and remains Europe's standout when it comes to electrification. More than 27% of all Norwegian cars are fully electric, by far the highest share among the countries examined. Even more striking, roughly 88% of new vehicles purchased in Norway are electric. That means the country's existing fleet is rapidly being transformed as older gasoline and diesel vehicles are gradually replaced.

Behind the top five were Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Germany, for example, has roughly 30% of its fleet under five years old, while Switzerland is closer to 25%. The Netherlands has a somewhat older fleet overall, despite having a relatively healthy market for newer vehicles and EVs.

The report says that the opposite extreme can be found in Albania. According to the research, roughly nine out of every 10 vehicles there are at least a decade old, giving Albania the oldest fleet among the countries examined. The disparity highlights a broader economic divide in European car ownership: wealthier Western and Northern European countries generally replace vehicles more frequently, while parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe rely much more heavily on older vehicles and secondhand imports.

That distinction can also make registration statistics somewhat misleading. A vehicle being registered in a country for the first time does not necessarily mean it is a new car. Used cars exported from countries such as Germany and France frequently enter fleets elsewhere in Europe as newly registered vehicles despite already having years of driving behind them.

“There’s a very clear split across Europe when it comes to car ages,” an eCarsTrade auto industry expert said. “Western countries keep replacing their fleets regularly, partly because incomes are high enough to realistically afford new vehicles.”

The researchers pointed specifically to Romania, Poland and Albania as markets where imported secondhand vehicles play a much larger role. As a result, the underlying age of some national fleets may be even greater than headline registration figures initially suggest.

The study, conducted in August 2026, compared more than 30 European countries using three primary measures: the percentage of cars at least 20 years old, the percentage at least 10 years old, and the percentage less than five years old. Those variables were combined into a Fleet Age Score ranging up to 100, with lower scores indicating newer national fleets.

Luxembourg recorded a score of just 1.6, well ahead of Belgium at 13.1 and Denmark at 17.1. The UK scored 18.8 and Norway 18.9, followed by Liechtenstein at 19.6, Austria at 20.8, Germany at 20.9, Switzerland at 23.7 and the Netherlands at 24.1.

Taken together, the numbers show that Europe is not moving toward a newer or more electric vehicle fleet at anything close to a uniform pace. In Luxembourg, frequent vehicle replacement keeps the average car relatively young. In Norway and Denmark, electrification is rapidly reshaping what people drive. Meanwhile, countries that depend heavily on imported used vehicles continue to operate fleets that can be dramatically older than those found just a few hundred miles away.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 04:15

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US Bombs Somalia For 81st Time This Year

Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,

US Africa Command announced on Friday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia as the Trump administration continues a record-breaking bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no coverage in US media.

AFRICOM said the strike was launched on September 8 and targeted al-Shabaab in the vicinity of Quumbi, a village about 50 miles northeast of the southern port city of Kismayo,

As usual, AFRICOM offered no other details about the strike, and there were no statements from US-backed forces about military operations in the area that day.

"Specific details about units and assets will not be released to ensure continued operations security," AFRICOM said.

According to AFRICOM's numbers, the attack brings the total number of US airstrikes in Somalia this year to 81, higher than any other year prior to 2025, when President Trump oversaw 124 AFRICOM airstrikes, breaking the previous annual record of 63 that he set in 2019.

The US has also been conducting an air war against an ISIS affiliate in Somalia's northeastern Puntland region, and Drop Site News recently reported that a US strike was carried out in the region on September 3, though it has not been claimed by AFRICOM, suggesting that not every US attack is being announced.

According to numbers from New America, an organization that tracks the air war and also counts airstrikes that are reported but not claimed by the US, the September 8 strike would bring the total number of US bombings in Somalia this year to 83.

The US has been involved in Somalia for decades and has been fighting al-Shabaab since the George W. Bush administration backed an Ethiopian invasion in 2006 that ousted the Islamic Courts Union, a Muslim coalition that briefly held power in Mogadishu after taking the city from CIA-backed warlords.

Al-Shabaab was the radical offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, and its first recorded attack was a suicide bombing in 2007 that targeted Ethiopian troops occupying Mogadishu. It wasn't until 2012 that the group pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda. The ISIS affiliate in Puntland started as an offshoot of al-Shabaab and first emerged in 2015.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 03:30

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Older Britons Are Working Longer As Youth Unemployment Rises

Britain has a strange labor problem: the people who have spent decades working increasingly aren’t leaving, while the people trying to begin their careers increasingly can’t get in, according to Bloomberg.

More than 1.7 million people over 65 are now employed in the UK, the highest level on record. Meanwhile, youth unemployment is hovering near a decade-plus high, and nearly one million people between 16 and 24 are neither employed nor in school.

The demographic shift is dramatic. About two decades ago, there were roughly 10 working young people for every employed person over 65. Today there are only about two.

Some of this is simply good news: people are healthier, living longer and have more opportunities to work flexible schedules. But money is clearly part of the equation too. Rising living expenses have pushed some retirees back into the workforce and encouraged others to postpone retirement.

That becomes more consequential when companies aren’t creating many new positions. The Bank of England has described Britain as having a “low hire, low fire” labor market. Companies aren’t necessarily conducting massive layoffs, but they’re also reluctant to expand payrolls. When older employees remain in their jobs longer, fewer vacancies naturally work their way down the ladder.

Bloomberg writes that AI could amplify the problem. Graduate positions as a percentage of available jobs have reportedly been cut in half since 2022. Instead of building large teams of junior employees, companies can increasingly give experienced workers AI tools and ask them to produce more.

As one employment expert put it, some companies are effectively saying, “we just want to get rid of some junior staff and replace them with AIs.”

Working from home could be contributing as well. Junior employees require more training and supervision, something that becomes considerably more difficult when employees and managers aren’t regularly sitting together.

The end result is almost backwards from the traditional labor-market cycle. Britain has record numbers of retirement-age people still collecting paychecks at precisely the same time that an unusually large number of young people can’t find their first one.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 02:45

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ISIS Fanatic Set To Walk Free From UK Prison In Weeks

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

An ISIS fanatic who pledged allegiance to the caliphate, circulated execution videos, and blagged his way into an NHS heart unit with a fake degree is lining up for parole in November.

GB News host Patrick Christys broke the story this week and put it as plainly as it deserves: "What a country we are."

'What a country we are!' @PatrickChristys exclusively reveals that a 'ISIS fanatic', who faked a degree to work in the NHS, could be set free onto the streets of Britain within months. pic.twitter.com/5b3enaS0z3

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 10, 2026

Full segment:

Ali Abdillahi, a Somali-born Dutch national who has lived in Britain since the age of seven, was jailed in March 2022 for eight years and ten months.

The Old Bailey heard he ran a private Telegram group called "Sons of Abdullah," pumped out recordings of preachers calling for armed jihad, and shared Islamic State films showing executions and graphic violence.

View counts on the material ran from 280 to 1,300. Officers found a pledge of allegiance to ISIS on his phone and notebooks that laid out the same mindset.

Mr Justice Sweeney called it one of the "more serious cases of its type." The judge told Abdillahi: "You had showed you committed these offences because of your support for Islamic extremism." Sweeney added that he supported the concept of "Armed Jihad" and viewed Islamic State as the "inheritor of Islam." No separate jail term was added for the fraud that got him through the hospital doors.

In July 2020, while he was spreading that material, Abdillahi forged a biomedical science degree from the University of Hertfordshire, stuffed the lie onto his CV, and applied through an agency.

Croydon University Hospital took him on as a cardiographer. He treated heart patients. The court was told no concerns were raised about his work before his arrest on 7 August 2020 at his home in Enfield.

He then tried to use the same fake qualifications to talk a court into granting him bail on the terrorism charges. That earned him the extra ten months for perverting the course of justice.

When police first asked about the degree, he offered this: "I believe I created a character for myself, and looking back, I do not know what is real and what is not... I was convinced I had a degree. My intention was not to lie or anything like that."

Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command's Commander Richard Smith said at the time: "Extremist propaganda online is extremely harmful and is a means by which terrorist groups seek to radicalise people all over the world. Abdillahi sent videos and recordings glorifying extremist violence to promote the hate-filled mindset he supported to others."

Christys noted the obvious: this was not a porter or a cleaner. "An ISIS fanatic managed to use a totally fake degree to get a real job in the NHS... he was examining people's hearts."

GB News has established he is listed for parole on 19 November. A three-year extended licence sits on top of the sentence. Whether the Home Office has even bothered to order his deportation is, according to the channel, still unclear.

'We have thrown our doors open to jihad.'@PatrickChristys asks whether the West has learnt any lessons from 'radical Islamism', 25 years on from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. pic.twitter.com/TResBYut2J

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 11, 2026

'I could weep for the state of the UK.'

Journalist Cristo Foufas reflects on the impact of Islamist terrorism on Britain. pic.twitter.com/w8Jmq5FcJG

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 11, 2026

This is not a one-off. In February, we reported the case of Zahid Iqbal, jailed in 2013 after plotting to bomb a Territorial Army centre in Luton with an IED strapped to a remote-controlled toy car, working from an al-Qaeda kitchen-bomb manual.

The parole board moved to free him years early despite warnings from prison and community offender managers, and despite a previous early release in 2021 that had to be revoked when he failed to comply.

Reform UK crime adviser Colin Sutton called that decision "baffling." "This wasn't a guy in his bedroom cooking something up. This was somebody who arranged training. He had links with al-Qaeda. He was a proper terrorist. And he was released early in 2021 and had to be called back in because he wasn't complying with the conditions."

Abdillahi's November date sits inside the same culture. Terrorists and fraudsters get calendars. Ordinary people who post the wrong opinion get cells.

Labour's answer to a prison system running at around 97 percent capacity has been to empty it. After public fury over plans that would have fast-tracked rapists, groomers and the killers of PC Andrew Harper, Prime Minister Andy Burnham narrowed the scheme. Rape, serious child sex offences, grooming and unlawful killing were carved out. The rest of the machine still runs.

25 years after 9/11 and Britain is quite literally importing convicted terrorists on small boats and allowing it to continue.

No wonder MI5 says the terror threat is greater today than then. pic.twitter.com/f39FMGsgfD

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) September 11, 2026

Official figures published this month show about 700 eligible offenders due out on 1 October, with some 2,550 released by the end of the year and around 4,500 over the following months.

Prisoners who would once have served 40 percent of a standard sentence can now walk after a third. Others who would have served two-thirds can leave at halfway. Police chiefs have already said forces will need nearly £500 million extra just to chase licence breaches and fresh offending from the wave.

The exemptions do not rescue the principle. A man who pledged himself to ISIS, tried to radicalise others, and was allowed to put electrodes on British patients with a printed-off degree is still being processed toward the street. The Home Office cannot even say, on the record, whether it intends to put him on a plane.

Britain imported the ideology, waved the fake certificate through an agency, parked him in a heart department, and is now preparing the paperwork for his return to the community.

That is not a glitch. It is the system working as built: weak borders, weaker vetting, and a justice machine that treats jihadist propaganda as a manageable risk while it panics over tweets posted by those concerned about it.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 02:00

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China's Biotech Stocks Emerging As Latest Ai Trade

By Charlie Zhu, Bloomberg Markets live reporter and strategist

China’s biotech stocks are emerging as the latest AI trade, fueled by expectations the technology will accelerate drug development and boost returns.

The Hang Seng Biotech Index has risen nearly 22% this quarter, set to outperform the Hang Seng Tech gauge by the most on record in Bloomberg data going back to 2015, as investors bet artificial intelligence will reduce timelines and cost in pharmaceutical research and development. The prospect of AI-originated drugs generating licensing and royalty income in the longer run may give the rally staying power.

“AI-driven drug discovery (AIDD) is taking off in China and generating a lot of investor interest, owing to the speed and cost benefits that AI brings,” Citigroup Inc. analysts including John Yung wrote in a note this month. The sector’s low penetration of the projected $313 billion global pharmaceutical R&D market implies “significant room for growth.” 

Shares of Insilico Medicine Cayman TopCo have more than doubled since their debut in Hong Kong in end-December, while those of Shanghai-listed HitGen Inc. have gained nearly 40% this year following a 90% rally in 2025. Both companies have buy ratings from every analyst tracked by Bloomberg.

Unlike many US companies that remain loss-making, several Chinese leaders are already profitable and should see earnings accelerate as robust demand translates into stronger utilization and operating leverage, according to Citigroup. Strong growth in AI-related revenue from leading wet lab vendors — which test AI-designed drugs — in the first half and advances of drug candidates at companies such as Insilico have bolstered sentiment toward the sector.

Leading Chinese AIDD companies are also trading at steep discounts to their US peers despite broader exposure across the value chain, analysts said. Meanwhile, continued progress in clinical milestones and new partnerships offer catalysts for local players, Linda Shu, head of China healthcare research at HSBC Qianhai Securities, said in a note.

To be sure, competition remains a concern as contract research organizations, drugmakers and private platforms may expand into AIDD, while disruptive technologies could erode the advantages of existing platforms. Broader doubts about the sustainability of AI investment may also weigh on shares.

Still, “China has a strong combination of scientific talent, a large innovative-drug pipeline and extensive drug contract manufacturing infrastructure for synthesizing and testing AI-generated molecules,” said Victoria Mio, a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Group Plc. Investors will be focused on “proprietary data, internal pipeline progress, pharmaceutical partnerships, licensing economics and cash runway,” she said.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 01:10

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