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Published on 12/09/2026 – 11:35 GMT+2 On the banks of the Danube near Kirchroth in the district of Straubing-Bogen, a 66-year-old woman out for a walk spotted a constrictor snake more than two metres long basking in the sun. She immediately realised that it was not a native species. “It…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 10:41 Dublin is bracing itself ahead of a meeting between the US President Donald Trump and Irish President Catherine Connolly Saturday morning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump is landing in Dublin where he is due to take part in a bilateral meeting with Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2 At least 44 people have been injured, one of them seriously, after a train which was carrying 186 people derailed in northern France on Friday, according to officials. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot wrote on social media X that the train was running…
By Simon Ormiston & Euronews Published on 10/09/2026 – 20:53 GMT+2•Updated 11/09/2026 – 10:42 GMT+2 A coach overturned on a mountain road in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden this week, leaving five people dead and 40 injured, local police said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The crash took place on Thursday on a…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2•Updated 13:11 The chief of staff to the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, has resigned from his position, the latest episode in an ongoing controversy over what Spanish authorities may have known ahead of the mass arrival of migrants into the North African…
Despite public declarations that economic ties with Russia will be severed, Europe has paid an estimated €7.28 billion for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Moscow’s Arctic Yamal project in just over eight months this year, already surpassing the €7.3 billion spent in all of 2025. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The figures were…
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former US Ambassador to the European Union Anthony Gardner says “diplomatic, financial and economic” means are also needed to fight terrorism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Gardner pointed out that 9/11 showed the world the power of “asymmetric warfare” and the damage “a small but…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:31 GMT+2 The European Commission transmitted the EU-India trade deal, clinched last January, to EU member states for ratification on Friday – but only in English, despite opposition from France. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU executive wants to fast-track the ratification process for trade deals by skipping…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 14:41 On today’s show: Stefan Grobe speaks to Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the European Union during the second Obama administration, about how 9/11 changed America and the world, and what lessons political leaders should still be learning today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Maria Tadeo…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:46 GMT+2 The Hague and Madrid are pushing for an EU-wide minimum age for social media use, potentially extended to other online services, as the European Commission prepares to announce its own proposal next week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The social media ban should be harmonised and enforced…
