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Across the country, firefighters are battling to deal with the weather front moving across Poland. Since midnight they have already responded to more than 4,000 call-outs to remove fallen trees, secure damaged roofs and pump water from flooded streets and buildings, the State Fire Service reported at 10:00 on Saturday.…
This week Morocco once again put Ceuta and Melilla at the centre of its territorial claims. On Friday, Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi defended his country’s “historical and geographical” rights over the two autonomous cities and proposed setting up a mechanism for dialogue with Spain to address their future. ADVERTISEMENT…
By Manuela Scarpellini & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 15:42 GMT+2•Updated 22:02 A sword-wielding attacker has killed one person and severely wounded two teenagers at a high school in central Sweden on Friday, authorities said, while media reports indicated that police had shot the suspect in the leg. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “An assailant armed…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 21:51 GMT+2 “It is clear that, with Donald Trump, I thought things would be easier, given our convergence on immigration and woke culture. But things turned out differently.”, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told to the New York Times, setting out her view of the difficult relations…
Ukraine imposed sanctions on the creators and distributors of Masha and the Bear, Russia’s most popular children’s cartoon, accusing the series of spreading pro-Kremlin narratives under the guise of entertainment for children. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The measures were included in a new sanctions package signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, targeting Russia’s military-industrial…
The Government of Ceuta and its cleaning crews will, on Friday, try to clean up Trampolín beach for the second time, according to the newspaper “Faro de Ceuta”. There, they will first attempt to carry out a new eviction of the approximately 500 migrants, although there are no official figures,…
By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 15:33 GMT+2 The boa constrictor, which can grow to more than 3 metres in length, actually lives in South America, where it is found from Colombia to Argentina. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT So a motorist in Colomiers, a suburb of Toulouse in France, got quite a…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 11:26 GMT+2 A European Commission official close to discussions over the EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine has told Euronews that Kyiv has suggested that the next defence funding envelope could be used to acquire anti-ballistic missile systems, among other capabilities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The official could…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 8:38 GMT+2•Updated 8:44 A border crossing with Moldova in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region was damaged by Russian drones overnight, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement on Friday morning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Traffic through the Tabaky checkpoint has been suspended and diverted to…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 9:19 GMT+2 A fire that tore through an apartment building in Switzerland on Friday has left five people missing and eight injured, police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The blaze in the eastern town of Thusis, which was reported just after midnight, “entirely burned” a building that housed…
