POLICE – Police responded to 40 incidents across Luxembourg over Easter weekend. The most serious among them occurred on Sunday night, when police were called to a family dispute in Troisvierges and arrested a heavily intoxicated man armed with a knife. He appeared before the examining magistrate yesterday afternoon.
AI THREAT – Luxembourg faces high exposure to artificial intelligence with over 90% of workers likely to see changes to their roles. That’s according to STATEC, who carried out a study on the impact of AI in the Grand Duchy. About 14% of jobs, or roughly 64,000 positions, are at risk of automation, raising concerns despite there being no major disruption so far.
PRIDE MARCH –Luxembourg Pride is coming back to Luxembourg City after 16 years. The organisers, Rosa Luxembourg, confirmed that the event will take place in the capital on 10 and 11 July, marking the first time Pride has been held there since 2010. Launched in 1999 under the name GayMat (a play on words in Luxembourgish meaning “Go with”), Luxembourg Pride was initially conceived as a way of drawing attention to the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
ARLON FIRE – A major emergency response took place in Arlon yesterday afternoon, after a fire broke out at a business premises on Avenue de Longwy. According to Belgian media reports, the blaze started shortly before 5pm with thick plumes of black smoke visible above the site. Emergency services launched a large-scale operation to secure the area. Firefighters from Arlon, Aubange, Étalle, and Virton were dispatched to the scene, along with police units, according to the Belgian outlet L’Avenir.
IRAN WAR – US President Donald Trump said that a proposed 45-day ceasefire with Iran was a “very significant step” but “not good enough” for him to sign, as Iranian officials vowed to keep fighting.
Talk of a ceasefire came as the US and Israel struck targets across Iran, including major petrochemical facilities, while time ticked down to Trump’s deadline today for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its civilian infrastructure.
The UN Security Council is expected to vote today on a watered-down resolution calling for the unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz – far from the sponsoring Gulf countries’ initial goal of obtaining clearance to free it by force. The vote is expected at 11:00 am (0300 GMT), though the outcome is not certain. The text in question has been diluted in recent days in the hope of avoiding rejection. According to AFP, it no longer mentions authorisation to use force – even defensively.
KANYE WEST CONTROVERSY – One of the promoters of an annual London music festival has defended plans for Kanye West to headline it, amid a backlash over the US rapper’s previous antisemitic outbursts. The 48-year-old hip-hop star is due to play three nights at the Wireless Festival in the British capital in July as part of a European comeback tour. According to media reports, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called his booking “deeply concerning”.
GOLF – Tiger Woods was missing from the Masters yesterday, but the 15-time major winner was in the hearts and minds of several stars at Augusta National. Woods stepped away from golf last week to begin treatment after pleading not guilty following a DUI arrest near his Florida home after a car crash. He told police he was looking at his phone just before the accident, in which there were no injuries. Police later revealed Woods was found with two hydrocodone pills, an opioid painkiller, and appeared unable to safely drive a vehicle when he was apprehended.
CYCLING – Australian former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis said he loved his wife and never wanted to hurt her in his first public comments since receiving a suspended sentence over her death. Dennis, an Olympic medallist in 2012 and 2021, avoided jail last year for driving in a way “likely to cause harm” before his car struck and killed his fellow Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins in 2023. He instead received a nearly 17-month suspended sentence given his guilty plea to an “aggravated act likely to cause harm” and his remorse and role as sole carer of their young children.
EQUESTRIAN – Team of Luxembourg rider Victor Bettendorf has guided his team “Madrid in Motion” to victory in the Global Champions League, held in Miami Beach. Bettendorf secured victory at the Concours de Saut International (CSI5) five-star event. Bettendorf’s team was the only one to complete all four rounds without a single fault. The tournament is scored across two show jumping competitions, with two riders participating per team.
The clouds have taken the day off. It’s set to be a bright sunny spring morning with clear skies and plenty of sunshine forecast for the day. Temperatures will be around 5°C this morning. We’ll have highs of between 18 and 20°C in the south of the country later on with no rain forecast.
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