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Published on 23/09/2026 – 10:02 GMT+2 Relatives of people who died after buying lethal substances from Canadian poison seller Kenneth Law are due to speak in court this week, as a judge begins deliberating how long the former chef should spend in prison. Justice Michelle Fuerst has set aside four days at a court in Newmarket, just north of Toronto, to hear victim impact statements and further evidence. It is not yet clear when she will hand down her sentence. Law pleaded guilty in May to aiding the suicides of 14 people in Canada. Prosecutors dropped murder charges after concluding…

Is Britain about to re-engage with the world in a more meaningful way than any time in the past decade? After a frantic 24 hours in New York, Andy Burnham declared to the UN: “Britain is back.” But what does that mean in practice? And after a rebuke over rhetoric on Russia from Donald Trump, is the new PM taking a different stance to Moscow from his predecessor? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy unpack the PM’s message on Ukraine, the US and the future of AI – and ask whether these themes will shape his first Labour conference speech as…

Published on 23/09/2026 – 9:35 GMT+2•Updated 9:36 Israel rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after he criticised Israeli actions in the West Bank in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. In his last speech as president addressing the UN’s signature annual diplomatic gathering, Macron deplored the humanitarian situation in Gaza, from which Hamas led the deadly 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, as well as actions by Israel in the West Bank. Macron said that “Hamas has never struck in the West Bank,” a territory seized by Israel in 1967 that is home to the Palestinian Authority.…

Published on 23/09/2026 – 9:10 GMT+2 Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was at the centre of abuse allegations that spurred the MeToo movement in Hollywood, will be sentenced again later on Wednesday for sexually assaulting a former production assistant. Weinstein, 74, faces at least two decades in prison for forcibly performing oral sex on Miriam Haley in 2006, one of dozens of women who have made accusations against the “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love” producer. Weinstein was sentenced 23 years in 2020 for the sexual assault, but it was overturned on appeal in 2024. A jury found him…

Nearly 900,000 tonnes of jet fuel from Asia are scheduled to arrive in Europe in the coming months, according to trade intelligence company Kpler. The shipments should reduce the risk of shortages, but prices are likely to remain high, said George Shaw, Kpler’s senior insight analyst for distillate markets. “Jet fuel will likely be subject to higher prices, especially as it is deeply linked to the diesel market, which is becoming even tighter and experiencing record prices recently,” Shaw told Euronews. Last week, the average European jet fuel price rose to $207.56 (€176) a barrel, the highest of any region…

Europe’s push to build its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is intensifying a debate over whether its electricity system can keep pace. Data-centre electricity consumption across the continent is projected to rise from 96 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2024 to 236 TWh by 2035, according to UK-based energy think tank Ember. Europe needs more data centres to expand its AI capacity, but they add further demand to already strained electricity grids. That power crunch is, in turn, making it harder to connect and build new facilities. But some startups in Europe are pitching ways to tackle the region’s power crunch. Euronews…

It’s unclear how that would work since the one base mentioned in the agreement was closed by the U.S. in the 1950s and the other is a small Danish installation that currently houses sled dogs. It depends on what the Pentagon would want to use the bases for, but most likely projects are new air defense and radar installations, which would come with large construction costs. Nothing in the agreement specifies cost-sharing mechanisms between the three parties to the deal.  The Pentagon didn’t respond to a request for comment. Who won?  At the start of this year, Denmark faced the…

Published on 23/09/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2•Updated 8:31 On today’s show: Sasha Vakulina breaks down the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York as Washington steps up efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Trump told the UN that he expects the war to end sooner than many people think. Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs speaks exclusively to Euronews’ Angela Skujins about the nitty-gritty of a sanctions saga that gripped Brussels and ultimately led to two Russian businessmen being removed from the EU’s blacklist. Shona Murray reports on a deal signed by the US, Denmark and Greenland to…

The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has changed appearance after heavy rains in northern Chile. Vast stretches of land that are normally parched have been carpeted with violet and white blossoms in a natural phenomenon known as the “flowering desert”. Under the Atacama’s soil, seeds and bulbs from around 200 different species lie dormant for long periods, waiting for the right conditions to germinate. Rainfall linked to the El Niño climate phenomenon has allowed many of them to bloom. The result has transformed parts of the desert landscape and drawn large numbers of visitors, who stop…

Oil prices fell on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said American and Iranian representatives had held talks at the United Nations. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was trading at $98.41 a barrel in the morning in Europe. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate cost $95.21 a barrel for next month delivery. Brent has repeatedly risen above $100 since the Middle East war began in February. The three-hour meeting was “very good” and “very productive”, Trump told reporters during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He said another meeting was planned soon. His comments came hours after he told the…