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A twin seat Phantom F-4 jet crashed at Tanagra air base during an air show held as part of Athens Flying Week 2026, killing the two pilots, according to officials. The crash occurred during a display, in front of thousands of people, the circumstances of the crash remain unclear. According to information from ERT, the aircraft suddenly began to lose altitude and plunged to the ground. An explosion followed immediately after the impact. Athens Flying Week, taking place this year on 5 and 6 September, is one of the largest air shows in south-eastern Europe. The programme features formation flying,…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2•Updated 12:09 On today’s show: Shona Murray reports from Dublin, Ireland, on Russia’s escalating threats targeting European states with the intention of striking fear into citizens over their governments’ support of Ukraine. She interviews Benjamin Haddad, French European Affairs Minister. We also interview Sergii Marchenko, Ukrainian Finance Minister, onrevived calls to use frozen Russian assets as Ukraine heads into another hard winter; and Antonio López-Istúriz, member of the European Parliament (Spain, EPP), who reacts to the deepening Ceuta crisis in Spain. Laura Fleischmann reports from Germany, where the far-right AfD party is leading the polls…
But last week, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he was reconsidering Washington’s support for Britain’s sovereignty over the islands. “I always review every position — that’s just one of many,” he told reporters. Days later, on Friday, right-wing Argentinian President Javier Milei, a Trump ally, escalated the rhetoric over his country’s enduring claim to the islands, pledging to levy sanctions against companies drilling for oil nearby without approval from Buenos Aires. Britain’s center-left Labour government immediately rejected Milei’s threat. A Downing Street spokesperson said the islanders have a right to self-determination and that the U.K. supports their right “to develop…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 15:51 GMT+2 According to the latest data published by Eurostat (31 August 2026), EU member states produced 34.4 billion litres of beer in 2025. Five countries alone control more than 60% of total production. This figure confirms that beer remains one of the most important agri-food industries on the continent, though with an interesting twist: overall production of traditional beer is edging down slightly, while alcohol-free beer continues to grow. Ranking of the largest beer-producing countries (2025) Germany remains by far the EU’s brewing powerhouse, while Spain holds on to second place and is still one…
“This is due to the preparation and conduct of American contacts in Kyiv,” Peskov said. Witkoff and Kushner are expected to travel to the Ukrainian capital on Sunday. Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian cities have intensified in recent weeks. Ukraine, meanwhile, has stepped up its hits on Russia’s oil infrastructure, in August reaching a monthly record for strikes since the start of the war in 2022. Saturday’s pause order followed a broad Russian overnight attack across Ukraine that killed at least five people and injured six others, according to the Kyiv Independent. “They were deliberate, for the first time in…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 15:52 GMT+2 Spain is extending its border checks on travellers arriving from Italy by air or sea for a further 15 days, pushing the measure’s expiry from 7 September to 22 September. The decision follows the same pattern that has defined the stand-off between Madrid and Rome since the summer. Spain introduced these checks for the first time on 8 August, through Order INT/846/2026, as a direct response to Italy’s earlier suspension of the free-movement regime for travellers arriving from Spanish territory. Italy, for its part, had already extended its own checks until 15 September —…
By Chaima Chihi & يورونيوز Published on 05/09/2026 – 16:04 GMT+2 The Trump administration has begun working on a post-war strategy for the Middle East, aimed and reshaping the balance of power in the region by tightening pressure on Tehran and expanding normalisation between Israel and neighbouring countries, Axios reported, citing two US officials and two other sources familiar with the matter. The US outlet said that the plan remains in its early stages but that it could set out US policy towards the Middle East for the remainder of US President Donald Trump’s time in the White House. The unnamed sources told…
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,…