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By Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 20:19 GMT+2•Updated 20:48 Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom comes at a particularly sensitive time. As the Duke of Sussex prepares to spend more time in the country with his wife Meghan Markle and their children Archie and Lilibet, a serious consequence of his legal battle against the Daily Mail’s publishing group has arrived from the High Court in London: Harry and the other six claimants must pay a total of £9.54 million, around €11 million, as an initial payment towards the publisher’s legal costs. The sum is not linked to the Sussexes’ move…
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Published on 21/08/2026 – 13:25 GMT+2 Mauritania’s coastguard said on Friday it had rescued more than 300 migrants, including 40 children, from an overloaded boat drifting off the west African country’s Atlantic coast. In recent months, hundreds of migrants, mostly from Senegal, The Gambia and Mali, have been rescued in Mauritanian waters while attempting the journey to Europe but hundreds have died or gone missing after their boats sank. The migrants were “in a difficult humanitarian situation” when they were picked up during the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the coastguard said in a statement. Their wooden pirogue boat had…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 11:34 GMT+2 Less than 24 hours after doubling the size of its debt buybacks, the US Treasury found itself needing to reassure markets all over again as yields on the 10-year and 30-year notes erased Wednesday’s declines and moved higher than before the announcement. The move forced US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to speak publicly and leave no doubt that Wednesday’s $4 billion (€3.4bn) ceiling per operation was a floor rather than a strict limit. “We routinely do buybacks, and we’re going to increase the size of the buyback […] I would note that it could…
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond in this Euronews news bulletin. In just a few minutes, our newsroom brings you the latest news and breaking news across world affairs, business, politics, culture, entertainment and travel, with the context you need to make sense of a fast-moving day. Reported with the independence and the European perspective that define Euronews, this regular round-up gives you a clear and reliable overview of the stories shaping our world right now, wherever you are watching from.
By Wessam Al Jurdi & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 18:02 GMT+2 The Muslim World League has launched an initiative aimed at countering extremist discourse in West Africa, with Muslim and Christian leaders from across the region signing a series of cooperation agreements at an international conference in Abuja. The League unveiled the initiative at a conference titled “Diversity and Social Peace: A Partnership for a Promising Future,” held under the patronage of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The gathering brought together Muslim and Christian religious leaders alongside government officials and civil society representatives. Delegates adopted the Abuja Declaration by consensus, setting out…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2•Updated 13:14 The board of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, one of Italy’s oldest banks, on Friday formally set out the financial terms of two voluntary public exchange offers for all the shares in Banco BPM and Banca Generali. The combined proposal is worth around €34 billion and stands as a direct alternative to the takeover bid or Opas — a public offer combining cash and shares — launched by Intesa Sanpaolo for the same Siena-based bank. Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s own offers are structured as Ops or share-only, with no cash component.…
FIFA has banned three Argentina players, including a 10-match suspension for midfielder Leandro Paredes, for striking Spain opponents moments after losing the World Cup final. The ban for Paredes — who grabbed Spain’s Eric Garcia by the throat and pushed Gavi to the ground — ranks alongside the FIFA sanctions for Uruguay forward Luis Suarez in 2014 as among the most severe in World Cup history. Argentina defender Nahuel Molina was handed a seven-game ban while Thiago Almada was given a one-game suspension. FIFA imposed fines of €76,000 on Paredes and Molina, and €25,000 for Almada. The ban for Paredes…
By Egle Markeviciute, EU Tech Loop via Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 7:32 GMT+2•Updated 16:03 German non-profit group HateAid has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley and several eyewear retailers with Germany’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime, seeking a ban on the sale of Meta’s AI glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer. The group argues the glasses violate Germany’s Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act. HateAid says the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are “indistinguishable” from ordinary glasses, and with 41 million people wearing glasses in Germany alone, this can create “image-based digital violence” and “disguise a particularly inconspicuous…
Pompeii did not end in AD 79.. For centuries, while the Roman city remained buried beneath the debris of Vesuvius’ eruption, people went on living among those ruins and kept its memory alive. This surprising story is now being told thanks to a number of new finds in the Insula Meridionalis, in the southern area of ancient Pompeii. Materials and ceramic artefacts dating from the 15th and 16th centuries have in fact provided fresh evidence of human presence on the site many centuries before the start of the Bourbon excavations, launched in 1748. The discovery challenges the most common image…