Hundreds of shoppers queued outside Lidl supermarkets across France on Thursday after the retailer announced the sale of 200,000 fans and portable air conditioners, triggering long lines, scuffles and police intervention at several stores. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Outside a Lidl store in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, around 200 people waited for up…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 14:52 GMT+2 European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is weighing the possibility of playing a role in the upcoming French elections, which could lead her to leave her post early, she told French newspaper Les Échos on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lagarde did not specify the role…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 20:43 GMT+2 Two Romanians previously convicted of a knife attack on an Iranian journalist outside his London home “on behalf of” Iran were jailed on Friday for 12 and eight years respectively. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT George Stana, 25, and Nandito Badea, 21, were found guilty last month…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Some 40 years, Finland´s capital started to design new solutions to reduce deadly road accidents – and then eventually eliminate them. Those efforts have now paid off. 12 consecutive months without a single road death were recorded between 2024 and 2025. By comparison, during…

Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman’s logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 16:56 GMT+2•Updated 16:57 NATO allies are set to reaffirm their iron-clad commitment to Article 5 of the NATO Treaty and state that Russia poses a “long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security and stability” in the final declaration of the NATO summit in Ankara next week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…

“The security of the Baltic states is also Germany’s security,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) said as he welcomed the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Berlin. He was referring to a plaque on Vilnius Town Hall which reads: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The security of Lithuania is our security. The defence…

Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 15:03 The Ukraine war front line remained largely frozen in June, extending a longer-term trend of stalled Russian momentum, an analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) carried out by the AFP news agency showed on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT…

By the end of next year, around 5,000 German troops will be permanently stationed between the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and the border with Belarus as part of the new Lithuania Panzerbrigade 45. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During a major military exercise in May and June, Lithuanian schoolgirl Kamilė V. found herself at…

Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession…