Published on 04/09/2026 – 13:26 GMT+2•Updated 13:29 Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two women off the coast of northern Cyprus, bringing the death toll from last week’s ferry accident to 12, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A FiloJet ferry was sailing from Kyrenia in Cyprus to Taşucu in Turkey on…

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will ask Europeans to repay the American aid provided to Ukraine under the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump has long demanded that Europeans shoulder more of the cost of Western support for Ukraine in its war with Russia,…

Published on 04/09/2026 – 14:51 GMT+2•Updated 16:51 Brazil’s EU ambassador, Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, told Euronews on Friday that an inspection of Brazilian meat was unnecessary, and signalled that “all options are on the table” for Brazil to respond if the EU ban remains in place. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…

Published on 04/09/2026 – 15:51 GMT+2 A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in central Kyiv on Friday afternoon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that it had targeted the head of the agency’s office. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The drone hit the SBU’s central building on Volodymyrska…

French minister for European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, told Euronews he’s “quite confident” the French electorate will reject extremism, and won’t elect a far-right candidate to replace President Emmanuel Macron in next year’s election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His comments come days after an Elabe poll for BFMTV/La Tribune Dimanche showed Le Pen…

Senior EU officials are doubling down on the need for substantial new EU-level taxes to finance the bloc’s long-term budget, pushing back against scepticism from the so-called “frugal” member states. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The question of new own resources, part of the Multiannual Financial Framework, the bloc’s €2 trillion long-term budget…

Published on 04/09/2026 – 19:38 GMT+2 Spain recorded its joint-highest September temperature on Thursday, with 45.7C measured in the southwestern town of El Granado as exceptional heat grips the country, according to Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The temperature matched the September record of 45.7C set in Montoro…

On Friday, Jordan Bardella of the far-right National Rally party signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, aimed at stopping the boats “forever” — should their parties come to power — at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Farage and Bardella signed the agreement…

Following the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and the subsequent wave of emigration, one notable trend has been the rise of so-called “birth tourism”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Thousands of Russian women, unwilling to tie their children’s future to a country that started a war and concerned about Russia’s growing…

Five EU countries say they expect to be ready to send irregular migrants to deportation centres built outside the European Union by 2027. The announcement came after a meeting in Copenhagen on Friday attended by the interior ministers of Denmark, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ministers…