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Published on 12/06/2026 – 16:39 GMT+2•Updated 16:40 Any tweaks to the EU’s current protection scheme for those fleeing war in Ukraine should be implemented “very gradually”, the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly Clements has told Euronews, as EU capitals reportedly mull removing protections for Ukrainian men of conscription age. “The war has not abated. It has become more intense, with more civilians caught in the middle,” Clements explained. “The circumstances that created the conditions for the European Union to issue temporary protection have largely not ended.” It comes as a handful of EU countries, including Poland and Germany,…

Updated: 12/06/2026 – 12:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this June 12th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More

Published on 12/06/2026 – 14:08 GMT+2•Updated 14:38 Singer and actress Ariana Grande has become the latest pop star to attack the White House after it used her music without permission in a social media post promoting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a TikTok video posted on 9 June 2026, showing arrests carried out by ICE, the White House used Ariana Grande’s song “bye” as the soundtrack. In the caption, the administration wrote: “Bye-bye 👋 President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history.” Grande, who is currently on her Eternal Sunshine Tour for her latest album, responded in…

Do you see the risk that more fiscal restraint enacted by a “technical” administration could increase voters’ distrust in politics and fuel more support for the populist far right? Yes, the risk is real, and I take it seriously. Fiscal restraint that is perceived as unfair — restraint that touches the citizen first and the privileged last — does feed the extreme. The first job of this government is, therefore, to make sure that the order is reversed. The state pays its fair share before the citizen pays anything new.  There is also a deeper point. Romanian voters are not,…

Pope Leo XIV landed in Tenerife on Friday, the final stop on his tour of Spain, which has also taken him to Madrid, Barcelona and Gran Canaria. The pontiff’s visit to the Canary Islands has been marked by the migration crisis affecting the region, one of the main gateways to Europe for thousands of people crossing the Atlantic from Africa. On the last day of his trip, the leader of the Catholic Church issued an appeal in support of migrants and called for efforts to protect those embarking on these dangerous routes to be stepped up, while stressing the importance…

Officials in the Philippines said on Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the country and left 46 people dead and 38 others missing. The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, which struck off Sarangani province on Monday, injured at least 688 people and displaced more than 45,000, about half them still in emergency shelters, after more than 12,600 houses across farming towns and cities were damaged. The numbers of dead and missing were considerably lowered after multiple verifications, the Office of Civil Defence said in a…

And the Irish tax take from U.S. companies based here keeps hitting record highs despite Trump policies designed to reverse the flow. While the economic ties that bind Dublin and Washington are fundamental, the Irish have forged more humble links with Ottawa, with only 75 Canadian companies operating from Ireland. And the Irish haven’t done much to change that dynamic. Ireland is among the EU laggards in ratifying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the decade-old treaty seeking to boost business between Canada and Europe that has been provisionally in force since 2017. That status quo may finally change…

The European Union’s new Pact on Migration enters into force on Friday, meaning the bloc finally has a set of clear-cut rules to manage migration that applies to all EU member states – at least, on paper. The pact includes eight legislative acts, which together are meant to improve member states’ cooperation on migration management, hold frontline states to stricter standards for minimising irregular entries into the EU, and speed up asylum procedures. The new law introduces a border procedure which shortens the period to assess an asylum request for certain categories of applicants to 12 weeks, with 12 additional…

Published on 12/06/2026 – 13:48 GMT+2•Updated 14:13 A striking new study on earthquake risk has been published for Southern California, one of the most densely populated regions of the United States. Researchers report that the tectonic stress accumulating on the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems has reached its highest levels in the past 1,000 years and, in some segments, may already exceed those levels. While the study suggests the region may have the potential to generate a large and devastating earthquake in the future, it also stresses that the findings are crucial for reassessing earthquake hazards. Study examines…

Published on 12/06/2026 – 11:05 GMT+2 The UK economy shrank by 0.1% in April, according to data published on Friday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), ending a run of monthly growth stretching back to last summer and suggesting that the Iran war is beginning to weigh on British output. Services, the dominant sector of the British economy, fell by 0.2% on the month, while production was flat and construction inched up by 0.1%. Over the three months to April, GDP still expanded by 0.7%, the fifth consecutive period of three-month growth. The biggest single drag on output came…