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Published on 08/08/2026 – 18:34 GMT+2 A major wildfire broke out on Friday evening in Alto Garda, in the Tignale mountains on the western shore of Lake Garda. Firefighters, civil protection teams, forest Carabinieri and volunteer fire crews are on site working to secure the area. The response is being coordinated by the mayor of Tignale, Daniele Bonassi, who described the scenes as “terrifying”. The blaze has not yet been brought under control because of winds of up to 40 kilometres an hour, which are rapidly changing the direction of the flames. The area has been hit hard by the…
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He is “the strongest guarantee that the office of President of the Republic will regain its true dignity and its ability to unite the nation and serve as a counterbalance to the ruling majority,” it added. Parliament is set to vote on his candidacy next Tuesday. Tisza, which won a general election in the spring, enjoys a two-thirds majority in the chamber, making Baka’s election to the largely representative post a formality. The nomination comes after former President Tamás Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment that removed him from office last month, bowing to months of public pressure from Magyar. The…
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he hopes to see an end to the war in Ukraine, but doubts it will happen soon. “If you ask me, and as a political veteran, I can tell you that I’m not sure about it, and I’m very much afraid that we’ll have another difficult winter,” Vučić said during a joint press briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is visiting Belgrade. “But I just hope, without any real facts behind these hopes, that this will end tomorrow,” he added. Zelenskyy arrived to Belgrade on Friday for his first official visit to Serbia since…
Meloni slammed Madrid after it rolled out a scheme to grant legal status to more than 1 million unauthorized migrants earlier this year, and called for a debate on the consequences of the measure during a meeting of European leaders last month. As the Ceuta crisis unfolded, the Italian premier spearheaded the drafting of a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa in which 22 EU leaders argued Madrid’s migration policies had undermined the security of the bloc’s external borders. “We have a duty to effectively deter and relentlessly combat illegal migration, by coordinating our…
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…