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Kyiv calls for frozen assets revival: Ukraine hopes the European Union will formally re-open the debate around using frozen Russian state assets to fund Kyiv, the country’s Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko has exclusively told Europe Today, calling on the EU to “think outside the box” and floating a solution that would see Belgium transfer the custodianship of the assets to the EU. “We would like a broader coalition of countries to discuss this issue during the next months. It’s fair enough to envisage another year of war and that Ukraine (will) need additional sources to finance their needs,” Marchenko told…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 14:25 GMT+2 Rescuers in Nepal continue to pull people out on Saturday, 10 days after the devastating floods hit along the Nepal-Tibet border, meanwhile thousands of people are still missing. In separate situations, one Chinese man and a woman were found alive by rescue teams. The woman was found alive in her house buried under thick mud and debris in flood-hit Nuwakot, footage released by Nepal’s army shows the woman covered in mud, officials say she has been airlifted to Kathmandu. In parallel, Nepal’s prime minister’s office posted on social media that the man was rescued…
Ratings agency Fitch has upgraded Portugal’s sovereign debt rating from “A” to “A+”, with a “stable outlook”, the company said in a notice published on its website (source in Portuguese), keeping pace with the recent wave of confidence shown by other ratings agencies and investors in the country, according to Portugal’s Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade (AICEP). According to the Portuguese government, “all financial ratings agencies” assign Portugal an “A” rating. In August, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) (source in Portuguese) confirmed its unsolicited sovereign credit ratings for Portugal of “A+/A-1” for long- and short-term foreign and local currency debt,…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 8:31 GMT+2•Updated 14:29 Two senior officials resigned from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Friday as the party was reported to the police over fresh allegations it flouted donation rules. Farage’s aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy James Orr stepped down, the party said. Reform UK has been reported to the Metropolitan Police and the Electoral Commission over illegal donations. The Liberal Democrats Cabinet Office spokesperson Lisa Smart said the case involved “the acceptance and concealment of a donation from an impermissible donor.” The complaint follows an undercover investigation aired by UK broadcaster Channel 4…
A commemoration for former Bosnian Serb army commander and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić opened on Saturday at the House of the Serbian Army in Belgrade as Serbia faces mounting European pressure over what Brussels has described as his glorification — an accusation Serbia rejects. Mladić died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia. His remains were flown to Serbia from The Hague on a government plane on Thursday. Serbian army soldiers carried the coffin with Mladić’s body wrapped in the national flag from the plane…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 12:48 GMT+2 Dozens of masked men dressed in all black descended on the Port of Dover on Saturday morning in what police have described as a “protest.” Port authorities said there was an “ongoing public order incident” happening across the town, which is a key passenger hub for ferry services between the UK and mainland Europe. “This is affecting all routes in and out the port and town,” the Port of Dover said in a statement. P&O Ferries, which operates a ferry from Dover to Calais, later said that access to the port had been “partially…
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“The Future is Now” is the motto of this year’s IFA. Chinese home appliance and consumer electronics group Haier has brought its own take on that theme to Berlin, under the slogan “Home of Intelligent Possibilities”. The company is using IFA 2026 to lay out its vision of intelligent living — a home where connected appliances and AI do not just assist, but anticipate. Euronews spoke to Haier Europe CEO Neil Tunstall about what comes after the smart home, and how soon some of these ideas could become reality. Beyond the smart home The idea is to go one step…
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By Euronews Persian Published on 05/09/2026 – 11:39 GMT+2•Updated 11:43 Iranian media outlets reported that an Iranian oil tanker was struck by US forces near Kharg Island on Saturday morning, close to the Strait of Hormuz. Multiple explosions were heard and the tanker is being evacuated, with no casualties reported so far, according to the same initial reports. There has as yet been no comment from US or Iranian officials. It comes a day after Tehran reportedly launched anti-ship missiles against vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian media did not provide details as to the targets nor any damage inflicted…