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The Government of Ceuta and its cleaning crews will, on Friday, try to clean up Trampolín beach for the second time, according to the newspaper “Faro de Ceuta”. There, they will first attempt to carry out a new eviction of the approximately 500 migrants, although there are no official figures,…
By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 15:33 GMT+2 The boa constrictor, which can grow to more than 3 metres in length, actually lives in South America, where it is found from Colombia to Argentina. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT So a motorist in Colomiers, a suburb of Toulouse in France, got quite a…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 11:26 GMT+2 A European Commission official close to discussions over the EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine has told Euronews that Kyiv has suggested that the next defence funding envelope could be used to acquire anti-ballistic missile systems, among other capabilities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The official could…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 8:38 GMT+2•Updated 8:44 A border crossing with Moldova in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region was damaged by Russian drones overnight, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement on Friday morning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Traffic through the Tabaky checkpoint has been suspended and diverted to…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 9:19 GMT+2 A fire that tore through an apartment building in Switzerland on Friday has left five people missing and eight injured, police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The blaze in the eastern town of Thusis, which was reported just after midnight, “entirely burned” a building that housed…
By Franziska Müller Published on 21/08/2026 – 8:09 GMT+2 The unusually low water level of the Danube in Budapest has revealed relics that had remained hidden on the riverbed for more than 80 years. Among the discoveries are the remains of two German soldiers from the Second World War, their military…
Kandersteg is a village of around 1,300 people in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by steep valleys, glaciers and towering peaks. Above it sits Spitze Stei, an unstable rock formation large enough to trigger a landslide potentially twice the size of the one that buried parts of Blatten in May 2025.…
Published on 20/08/2026 – 21:41 GMT+2•Updated 22:00 Finland’s defence ministry said on Thursday evening it suspected that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace earlier in the day. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Every suspected violation of air space is taken seriously,” Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said in a ministry statement. “An investigation…
Published on 20/08/2026 – 20:22 GMT+2•Updated 20:23 The leaders of seven countries, including four EU member states, condemned a major settlement project in the West Bank and called on Israel to end expansion in the occupied Palestinian territory after authorities opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes in the area.…
Published on 20/08/2026 – 18:48 GMT+2 A Finnish-Russian woman has been charged with trafficking her children to parts of Syria then controlled by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, Finnish prosecutors said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The woman has been charged with two counts of aggravated human trafficking for the…
