Published on 16/08/2026 – 14:56 GMT+2•Updated 15:32 Wildfires are continuing to burn across several parts of Europe, with firefighters battling major blazes in Belgium, Germany, France, Croatia, Spain and Greece amid persistent heat and dry conditions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A fire in Belgium’s High Fens nature reserve has more than doubled…

Published on 16/08/2026 – 10:06 GMT+2 Two Spanish F-18 fighter jets, which were already on alert as a precaution, received authorisation to intervene at 04:44 on Sunday morning. The drone was sighted 24 kilometres north of the town of Galati. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The drone, whose origin has not been confirmed…

Published on 15/08/2026 – 12:39 GMT+2•Updated 12:44 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had struck the Progress Rocket and Space Centre” in Russia’s Samara region, a facility involved in the manufacturing and operation of space launch vehicles. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a post on X, Zelenskyy said…

France’s top constitutional authority approved legislation on Friday on the right to assisted dying, but struck down a ban on social media access for children under 15 in a blow to one of President Emmanuel Macron’s cherished reforms. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Macron’s office hailed the Constitutional Council’s decision on the assisted…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Friday that Britain must face up to the changing climate and accelerate its move to clean energy as he visited a town where a wildfire gutted homes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In Stourbridge near the UK’s second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins…

Published on 14/08/2026 – 15:52 GMT+2 Swiss police said on Friday they were still appealing for witnesses to come forward in connection with a fire they believe was deliberately started outside the Romanian embassy in Bern. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The blaze broke out on Monday and according to initial findings, “the…

Published on 14/08/2026 – 16:03 GMT+2 Ukraine’s military command said its forces liberated 26 settlements in a push around Oleksandrivka in southeastern Ukraine, in an operation that ran for more than six months. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Of the liberated settlements, 12 are located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 10 in the Donetsk region…

Published on 14/08/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2 Ash spewing from Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano has forced the closure of the Italian island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day, stranding hundreds of summer holiday travellers during the busiest travel week of the year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Catania’s airport will remain closed until…

Published on 14/08/2026 – 10:54 GMT+2•Updated 11:02 Debris from a broken engine fan smashed a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after it took off from Greece last month, according to a preliminary report into the incident, which saw a passenger partially sucked out of the opening. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The…

Thousands of illlegal migrants who arrived Ceuta late-July are still in the autonomous Spanish enclave while reception facilities struggle to cope with an emergency that has overwhelmed their capacity. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Many migrants are sleeping in the open on the streets, with residents handing out food and NGO and associations…