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Is Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s gamble paying off? Eight months before France’s presidential election, the La France Insoumise leader appears increasingly well placed to play a leading role. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to the latest Toluna-Harris Interactive poll for M6 and RTL, Mélenchon would qualify for the second-round run-off in three of the…
Published on 24/08/2026 – 12:59 GMT+2 Sweden will form a commission seeking to prevent attacks on schools, its government said on Monday, days after a 17-year-old girl was killed and three people wounded by a sword-wielding assailant at a high school. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The attack on the school in the…
Around 80 percent of global trade travels by ship, while most of the EU’s imports and exports arrive or leave by sea. Meanwhile, more than 95 percent of international digital communications pass through submarine fibre-optic cables stretching across the ocean floor, alongside pipelines that transport much of the world’s oil…
By Euronews Published on 24/08/2026 – 11:12 GMT+2 One of the Hungarian Armed Forces’ Gripen fighter jets crashed late on Monday morning, according to Prime Minister Péter Magyar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “For reasons that are not yet known, a Gripen fighter jet of the Hungarian Defence Forces crashed a few minutes ago…
Published on 24/08/2026 – 9:54 GMT+2•Updated 10:31 The European Union has approved Ukraine’s next defence spending envelope of €6.1 billion for defence procurement as part of the bloc’s €90 billion loan programme, the EU executive announced Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in the statement…
Published on 24/08/2026 – 9:04 GMT+2•Updated 9:30 Russian e-commerce giant Ozon said four of its logistics hubs in southern Russia were targeted by Ukrainian drones on Monday, as Kyiv expanded a campaign aimed at disrupting Moscow’s commercial supply networks. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Drone debris also struck apartment buildings and set warehouses…
Published on 24/08/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 Maritime security is no longer just about guarding ports and shipping lanes. It’s about protecting what’s invisible: the cables and energy pipelines on the seabed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Underwater networks carry 99 percent of the world’s data, enable communication and trillions of financial transactions, and…
Published on 23/08/2026 – 14:27 GMT+2•Updated 15:31 European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde could be set to take charge of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at some point in 2027, a Swiss newspaper has reported. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) reported over the weekend that Lagarde had…
More than 10,000 people marched in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, on Sunday in a protest against human-made climate change, weeks ahead of a 13 September general election where the issue is top among Swedish voters’ concerns. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The protest comes as experts in Sweden and abroad have warned that…
Western leaders are arriving in Kyiv this weekend ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As preparations for the event geared up, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb in the capital on Sunday, where the pair hosted a roundtable meeting on joint…
