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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has lamented what he describes as a lack of European solidarity over the Ceuta crisis in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in which he points to misinformation, prejudice and petty politics. The letter, sent on Saturday and seen by Euronews, comes after Sánchez described the arrival of 50,000 migrants from Morocco in Ceuta in a single day, after the double-fenced border was breached, as an “attack” and a “violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”. In the strongly worded letter, Sánchez describes the response from some EU partners as “rather asymmetric”. While…
Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:30 GMT+2•Updated 14:34 After around 60,000 irregular migrants entered the Ceuta Spanish enclave in North Africa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this Saturday that “the vast majority of those who arrived illegally have returned to Morocco.” She held a conference call with EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner in charge of Internal Affairs and Migration and Dubravka Šuica in charge of the Mediterranean and Demography to discuss the migrant crisis in Ceuta. “Due to the effective work of Spanish and Moroccan law enforcement. Not a single person reached mainland Spain or the rest of the…
Published on 01/08/2026 – 17:10 GMT+2 Hamburg celebrated its annual Pride event, one of Germany’s biggest, with increased security on Saturday, one week after a deadly attack near Berlin’s pride parade that shocked the country. Organisers expected around 250,000 people to attend the parade, which this year has the motto “Queer in solidarity. Take a stand — for a future without fear.” A late addition to the trucks taking part was one representing the Berlin Pride event — or Christopher Street Day, CSD for short, as the parades are known in Germany. People on that truck were asked to wear…
A wildfire in France’s Provence region continued spreading on Saturday as overnight efforts successfully stopped the blazes from reaching the nearby towns of Correns and Montfort-sur-Argens. Some 1,300 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze, which has flared up again in the Gros Bessillon area, burning approximately 1,250 more hectares since Friday. By the end of the week, authorities said a total of 4,500 hectares had been burnt. Despite the difficulties, 2,500 people were still unable to return home. Meanwhile, authorities say France’s largest wildfire in 70 years has been brought under control near the southwestern city of Bordeaux.…
Published on 01/08/2026 – 15:35 GMT+2 The two figurines, discovered by a team from the University of Tübingen in the lower layers of the cave, are thought to have been made by people of the Aurignacian culture, who lived in the region during the Upper Palaeolithic. The better preserved of the two carvings depicts a bird at rest, possibly brooding. The other shows a bird with outstretched wings, although the left wing has broken off. Archaeologists found the two figurines only about a metre and a half apart. Miniature carvings made from mammoth ivory Both sculptures are so small they…
Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been confirmed dead in an avalanche accident in Pakistan, his climbing company Elite Expeditions said in a social media post on Saturday. The avalanche struck on Thursday, cutting off contact with the international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak in northern Pakistan. “It is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak,” Purja’s company Elite Expeditions said on social media. “We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive,” it added.…
Published on 01/08/2026 – 14:03 GMT+2 Almost all of the estimated 60,000 migrants who entered Spain’s Ceuta enclave have returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said on Saturday. “The situation has been almost entirely reversed,” Spain’s interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters. Under the watch of Spanish soldiers and police, the last remaining young migrants continued crossing back over the border to Morocco on Saturday morning. To cross into Ceuta, many swam around a small border barrier that juts out into the Mediterranean. At least 67 people died in the attempt, Grande-Marlaska said, including some who drowned and others who were…
Twenty-two EU leaders — including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — on Saturday took aim at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration policies for undermining the security of the bloc’s borders. The increasingly isolated Sánchez hit back that his EU partners were responding in a “selfish” and “unlawful” manner to the sudden influx of some 50,000 unauthorized migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa. While almost all those migrants have now returned to Morocco — and none crossed into the EU mainland — the 22 leaders raised “serious concern” over…
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Published on 01/08/2026 – 9:27 GMT+2 Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight killed at least nine people and injured more than 30 others in what city mayor Vitali Klitschko called a “horrific night” for the capital. According to Klitschko, Russia launched a wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv, causing damage to residential and non-residential buildings and sparking fires across five districts. “Clean-up operations are also underway at the premises of the municipal organisation ‘Kyivmedspetstrans,’ which was hit twice,” Klitschko said. Kyivmedspetstrans is a city agency that operates ambulances and specialised emergency medical transportation. Four of the organisation’s buildings were “partially destroyed”…