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Mladić was the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-95 Bosnian War and was found responsible for the Srebrenica genocide, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed in July 1995. The Serbian government said that it had no hand in organizing the funeral, however Mladić’s body was flown to Serbia on a government plane and his coffin was escorted by members of the Serbian Armed Forces. “The elements of official support and the presence of some senior Serbian officials at the funeral are deeply regrettable,” von der Leyen said, adding that “they demonstrate…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 13:44 GMT+2 Iceland’s government has lodged a formal protest with the United States after Donald Trump shared a social media map appearing to fold the country into US territory. According to a ministry statement, Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir called in the US ambassador to deliver a firm objection, telling the envoy the map was simply not acceptable. The image, posted Monday, showed a redrawn North America with Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Iceland all shaded in stars and stripes and captioned as a single “United States of America” — with no caption or context explaining the…
The Argentine government announced on Monday that it will file a criminal complaint against several subsidiaries of the Israeli oil company Navitas for operating without authorisation in the Malvinas (Falkland Islands), which are administered by the United Kingdom but whose sovereignty is claimed by Argentina. The decision triggered an immediate reaction in Israel. The Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas and to impose sanctions on the United Kingdom “for as long as the occupation continues”, accusing London of seizing Argentine territory and oil resources. According to…
Qatar and the UAE are rerouting damaged LNG tankers via ship-to-ship transfers to keep gas flowing to buyers worldwide, in emergency operations that add more than $1 million per transfer and up to 35 hours of additional sailing time as the ongoing war continues to affect traffic through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. Three LNG cargoes loaded in Qatar and the UAE were transferred between vessels off Oman and the UAE in August before continuing to buyers in Asia, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler and Vortexa. Two of the three transfers involved vessels that had previously been damaged or…
Canada is having a moment. With the US suffering from the “Trump slump” effect, European travellers seeking out the charms of the Americas are heading north of the border instead. And if you’d like to join them, we have good news: several new routes launched this summer, and there are plenty on the way in 2027. In May, WestJet launched flights from Cardiff in the UK to Toronto, with routes to Glasgow and the Azores’ Ponta Delgada starting in May and June, respectively. From its hub in Halifax, the airline also launched flights to three new destinations in Europe: Madrid,…
A Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission led by Spanish Egyptologist Josep Cervelló has uncovered an “intriguing and beautiful” tomb dating from the late Fifth Dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2494–2345 BC) in the necropolis of Saqqara, southwest of Cairo. The find was made during this summer’s excavations, directed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. It is an exceptional mastaba with two funerary chapels, commissioned by Yunmen, a senior official of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, who also ordered that his father, Iti, a lower-ranking official, be buried there. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed that the…
Burnham and Trump spoke Monday about the “U.K.’s commitment to working towards peace and security” in the Middle East and stressed the “importance of the two state solution,” according to a readout from the British side. While Trump has yet to respond to the sanctions, political differences have previously influenced his decisions on trade. In January, the president threatened to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight countries, including the U.K., for opposing his demands to use military force to take control of Greenland. More recently, he has threatened to slap European countries imposing digital services taxes on American tech firms…
European Union member states have been asked to specify a realistic volume of revenue to be raised by new Europe-wide taxes, and to outline which adjustments are needed, as Ireland’s EU Council presidency irons out a new compromise for the bloc’s budget. The thorny issue of creating fresh EU taxes, known as own resources, to finance the next long-term budget was on the table at a meeting of European ambassadors on Tuesday, with the Irish presidency testing the ground for a new compromise package. “The vast majority of member states are willing to engage on a package of new own…
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu returned as interim leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) earlier this year after a court annulled the 2023 leadership election that had removed him — and he says jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is not a political prisoner, while leaving the door open to supporting an İmamoğlu presidential bid. In an exclusive interview with Euronews at CHP headquarters in Ankara, Kılıçdaroğlu defended his court-ordered return, acknowledged the party split would cost the CHP votes and called for Turkey to lead a new regional peace organisation. İmamoğlu was arrested in March 2025 on corruption charges, triggering…
Published on 08/09/2026 – 12:04 GMT+2 Is Germany’s economic recovery running out of steam? Exports fell in July for the first time in five months, according to official data published on Tuesday, reviving doubts about how solid the rebound in Europe’s biggest economy really is. Exports dropped 0.8% from the previous month to €138.2 billion, weighed down by weaker demand from the eurozone and China, according to provisional data from statistics agency Destatis. Analysts surveyed by financial data firm FactSet had expected a smaller decline of 0.5%, making the fall steeper than markets had priced in. The figures land days…