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It’s Sir Keir Starmer’s final PMQs, so Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy wonder if he will get a softer side of Kemi Badenoch in the chamber today. But, as Starmer picks up his engraved carriage clock gift from cabinet, there’s a shift in the chat about who Andy Burnham’s neighbour at Number 11 might be. Have Team Burnham gone off the idea of Ed Miliband as chancellor because of soft left optics? And who else is in the frame?
Updated: 15/07/2026 – 9:20 GMT+2 Conflict in Lebanon has “hit humanitarian operations” worldwide, says WFP Executive Director Carl Skau. “In the poorest countries, people are now eating less” as rising costs have reduced aid deliveries and disrupted supply chains. … More
Published on 15/07/2026 – 9:01 GMT+2 Sudan’s warring factions are profiting from control over the country’s resources, with the “war economy” helping to sustain the conflict, the United Nations said on Wednesday. To fund the growing cost of military operations, the warring parties rely on controlling and exploiting territory, trade routes and commodities, contributing to a conflict that has become “increasingly self-perpetuating,” the UN human rights office OHCHR said. The war between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in April 2023. It has killed 200,000 people by some estimates and displaced upwards of 11 million,…
Hunters account for less than 1 percent of Italy’s population, and polls suggest around eight in 10 Italians regard hunting as dangerous or unethical. The government’s determination to push ahead with the reform regardless has drawn attention as a potential play to woo conservative voters — particularly with Meloni now facing pressure from a new nationalist movement belonging to retired General Roberto Vannacci. “We considered it essential to revise legislation that is more than 30 years old and adapt it to an environmental and hunting context that has changed considerably,” Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Luca De Carlo told POLITICO, rejecting…
Published on 15/07/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 Euronews’ Sasha Vakulina reports from Kyiv on Ukraine’s government reshuffle, the political implications of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s reset and the country’s efforts to strengthen its air defences amid intensified Russian attacks.Jorge Liboreiro reports from Kyiv as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen prepares to announce a new support package for Ukraine, including fresh funding, progress on EU accession and a new agreement on drone production.World Food Programme Executive Director Carl Skau joins Europe Today to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and how the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are threatening…
The digital divide in artificial intelligence adoption between the Global North and Global South is widening, Microsoft’s chief responsible AI officer told Euronews Next. “We cannot let the digital divide become an even greater AI divide,” warned Natasha Crampton, who is also a former member of the UN’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI. Speaking on the sidelines of last week’s UN AI for Good Summit in Geneva, she laid out a vision for bridging the gap. Calls for AI sovereignty have swept the floors of tech conferences, particularly since the Trump administration forced Anthropic to exclude non-US citizens from using…
As millions of holidaymakers take to the skies this summer, aviation authorities are renewing warnings over one of the most common items found in travellers’ luggage. Passengers are being urged not to pack power banks, vapes and other lithium battery-powered devices in checked bags following a sharp rise in battery-related incidents on aircraft. The warning comes as airlines in Europe and around the world tighten their own rules amid growing concerns over the fire risk posed by faulty lithium batteries in the cargo hold. The British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has revealed that the fire risk posed by this type…
Friedrich Merz stellt sich heute der Sommerpressekonferenz. Statt neuer Angriffsflächen will er vor allem Stabilität vermitteln und seine jüngsten Kompromisse als Erfolge der demokratischen Mitte verkaufen, analysieren Gordon Repinski und Rasmus Buchsteiner. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview kritisiert der CDU-Außenpolitiker Roderich Kiesewetter Trumps wankelmütige Iran-Politik und drohende Zölle für die Straße von Hormus. Statt kurzfristiger Wirtschaftsinteressen fordert Kiesewetter den strategischen Stopp iranischer Finanzströme und eine konsequente Entwaffnung der Hisbollah. Unterdessen greift im Auswärtigen Amt von Johann Wadephul eine neue Sprachregelung. Sonderzeichen wie Gendersternchen, Unterstriche oder Doppelpunkte sind ab sofort im amtlichen Schriftverkehr und im Intranet untersagt. Das Ministerium verliert sich in bürokratischen Leitfäden…
Cuba suffered another blackout of the National Electric System, or SEN, on Tuesday, leaving the entire island country without power, officials said, in what was the third such incident in less than two weeks as a US oil embargo stresses the island’s grid. Since January, when US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on any nation that supplies or sells oil to the island, fuel has been scarce across Cuba, exacerbating the island’s continuing financial and economic crises. Public transportation has largely been halted, and officials have cancelled tens of thousands of surgeries. Cuba produces only 40% of the…
By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews with AP Published on 15/07/2026 – 6:05 GMT+2 The Swiss have only just finished collectively celebrating the success of their national side which – unlike the German national team – at least reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup, before going out to Argentina. People in Switzerland clearly know that a lost match is not the end of the world, as 80 percent of them are nevertheless looking to the coming year with confidence. That is the finding of a new survey. Commissioned by the insurance company Helvetia Baloise, it questioned 1,866 people in German- and French-speaking Switzerland. “Our study…