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By Manuel Ribeiro  & euronews Published on 08/08/2026 – 13:22 GMT+2 The Portugal concert went ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled, as has happened with his tours in other countries. Australia even refused the US rapper a visa. The same happened in the United Kingdom. Other European countries, including France, Poland, Italy and Czechia, cancelled West’s tour, also known as Ye. In Portugal, the Israeli ambassador was arguably the loudest public voice calling for the rapper’s concert to be cancelled, but that did not happen. The show at the Algarve Stadium took place on Friday and, according to reports in…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the drone attacks killed three people — a 3-year-old child and the child’s grandparents — in a village in the Kyiv region. The six ballistic missiles struck civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, killing one person, he said. “More pressure is needed. New sanctions that will prevent the production of these ballistic missiles,” Zelenskyy said on X. “And we definitely need more protection for our people,” he added, appealing to allies to provide missile interceptors to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses against Russia’s aerial assault. In the Zaporizhzhia region, in southeast Ukraine, three people were killed and four were wounded following…
Published on 08/08/2026 – 12:56 GMT+2•Updated 13:07 An as yet unidentified drone exploded in Bulgaria on Saturday, close to the border with Romania, officials said. According to Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev, the drone entered Bulgarian airspace from Romania before exploding 1,000 metres from a compressor station of the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, near the former Kardam border checkpoint between the two countries. “Noise made by the drone was detected by Romanian border police, and a loud explosion was subsequently heard by the ‘General Toshevo’ border police patrol,” he told a press conference. He added that the “location of the drone…
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Former prime minister and presidential candidate Gabriel Attal has filed a complaint over an alleged Russian disinformation campaign ahead of next year’s French presidential election, local news outlets reported on Saturday. Attal’s lawyers told French media that the complaint, filed on Friday, denounces “acts of foreign interference, manipulation of information, fabrication of content likely to undermine the fundamental interests of the nation and the sincerity of the upcoming presidential election.” They told BFMTV that several accounts on social network X, some of which impersonated French and international media, had disseminated fake video reports and newspaper articles attributing false statements to…
Published on 08/08/2026 – 9:21 GMT+2 A full-blown row has erupted between Rome and Madrid after the Meloni government refused to accept the Spanish cabinet’s ultimatum to lift border checks for people arriving in Italy from Spain. From Saturday morning, travellers entering Spain from Italy will be subject to the same measures introduced by the government in Rome on 1 August. According to the information available, Spanish border checks will remain in place until 7 September, while on Friday the Italian government reiterated that the suspension of the Schengen agreement will remain in force at least until 15 August. At…
Published on 08/08/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2•Updated 8:06 Three people, including a child, have died following Russian attacks on the Kyiv region overnight, according to local authorities. Timur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, said Russian forces had struck three sites in the Brovary district near the capital, killing three people and injuring three others. “Falling debris has damaged a private residential house, outbuildings and cars. A fire also broke out on the premises of a non-residential building,” he wrote in a post on Telegram. At least four people were also injured in an attack on the city…
There’s something wonderfully easy about arriving in Porto Santo. Just a short flight or a two-and-a-half-hour ferry from Funchal, Madeira’s busy capital, the tiny Portuguese island feels a world away from the crowds and bustle of its larger neighbour, despite the two being just 81 kilometres apart. Madeira has long been a favourite alternative to Spain’s Canary Islands, drawing visitors with its dramatic landscapes, hiking trails and subtropical climate. Porto Santo, by comparison, has remained something of a secret. That may well be set to change, though, after Expedia recently ranked it second in its annual Hot List of European…
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The low reserves have already added to the increased pressure on gas prices linked to renewed tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, with the European natural gas benchmark now consistently higher than it was for the first four months of the Iran war. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, has said the bloc faces no winter supply risks. But a report by energy analytics firm Rapidan projects that reserves will rise to only 65 percent of total storage capacity by November, arguing that hitting the EU’s target by winter won’t be possible without “materially higher prices.” That risk has…