Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:12 GMT+2 Belarus leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka said his country poses no military threat to Ukraine and claimed his earlier statements were only in response to what Lukashenka said were threats from Kyiv to Minsk. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “If (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Oleksandrovych (Zelenskyy) was offended, I apologise…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 21:10 GMT+2•Updated 21:11 Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Moscow had hoped for divisions and a “spat” between G7 leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but the summit in Evian instead demonstrated their unity. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Yatsenyuk joined Euronews’s Special report on the G7 summit on Tuesday…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:37 GMT+2•Updated 19:46 Russia said on Tuesday that one of its warships had fired warning shots at a British-flagged yacht in the English Channel after it made a “dangerous approach.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “In order to attract the attention of the yacht’s crew, signal flares were fired…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 19:13 GMT+2 The Church of Sweden said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation into Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s wife, who is a Lutheran priest, after media reports raised ethical concerns about her role in a spiritual foundation she runs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The church said complaints…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 18:09 GMT+2•Updated 18:18 The European Parliament has rejected cuts proposed in the draft EU long-term budget for the period 2028-2034, MEPs Carla Tavares and Siegfried Mureșan told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Cypriot government, who is currently chairing the budget negotiations…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:22 GMT+2 Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon will limit royal duties to spend more time with his seriously ill wife Mette-Marit, who needs a lung transplant, the palace said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The future king cancelled official engagements scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, media noted, and…

A Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “An investigation is being conducted…into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation…known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky,” a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in…

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt the EU-US deal struck last summer by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry, Scotland. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The final greenlight needed to implement the agreement comes as Trump threatened on Monday to impose tariffs on…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 13:19 GMT+2•Updated 13:29 US President Donald Trump said Benjamin Netanyahu must be “responsible about Lebanon” and let Syria “handle Hezbollah” in comments to reporters at the G7 summit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His remarks came during a bilateral meeting with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a…

The plan, unanimously adopted, aims to systematically dismantle drug-related organised crime. To do this, it asks major EU ports to form alliances and coordinate more closely in tackling organised crime. It will also target trafficking finances and introduce blanket bans on certain chemicals used to produce synthetic drugs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…