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Protests over security in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta escalated into clashes between locals and police on Thursday, a month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police charged protesters at a beach after a group of demonstrators moved into the area where migrants have been…
Published on 27/08/2026 – 20:18 GMT+2 Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones on Thursday, the latest in a series of increasingly frequent daytime assaults, killing one person and wounding many more, authorities said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT More than four years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has recently intensified its…
Published on 27/08/2026 – 18:07 GMT+2 The European Commissioners from Eastern Flank countries have urged Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to take urgent action over growing Russian threats to the Baltic states, including by creating a new high-level coordinator for the region. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The proposed coordinator would provide…
Published on 27/08/2026 – 16:46 GMT+2 UK asylum applications fell by more than a fifth annually, government figures showed on Thursday, as ministers grapple with the politically contentious issue and reducing record-high recent numbers alongside asylum spending. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A total of 85,891 people applied for asylum in Britain in…
Two people were killed in a “violent incident” at a school near Berlin, local media reported on Thursday, saying an 18-year-old woman student and a 30-year-old man had died. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Regional public broadcaster RBB and a local daily said the alarm had been raised at a secondary school in…
Published on 27/08/2026 – 16:22 GMT+2 UEFA is preparing a criminal complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Swiss courts for possible financial mismanagement over his failed plan to sell future World Cup profits to private investors. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT UEFA said on Thursday it filed documents in a Manhattan court…
By Euronews Published on 27/08/2026 – 15:27 GMT+2 The fifth extreme heatwave of the summer has arrived in Italy at the end of August, following a brief spell of unsettled weather that helped bring temperatures down. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to forecasts, it will not last long, with high temperatures between 27…
French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has proposed to cancel a large chunk of France’s public debt, namely the 18 percent that is currently held by the country’s central bank. The rationale is to unlock money for public spending, but is this is even feasible? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Mélenchon, currently a candidate…
Ceuta has faced its second consecutive night of protests over the migration crisis, and social tensions continue to rise. Tuesday’s demonstrations against the alleged plan by the government to house migrants in the Coronel Fiscer barracks were followed on Wednesday by a new wave of protests that ended with barricades,…
Hungary’s Fidesz party is facing an existential crisis following its dramatic defeat in the country’s April elections, in which Péter Magyar’s Tisza party unseated Viktor Orbán after 16 years of governing with a supermajority. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Having been a key driver of Hungary’s democratic transition at the end of the…
