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Updated: 29/05/2026 – 10:40 GMT+2 Video captured the moment a Russian Geran-2 drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania near the Ukrainian border. The impact sparked a fire and injured two people, according to Romanian authorities. … More
European shares were mostly higher on Friday, and oil prices slipped as investor sentiment was fuelled by expectations of a deal between the US and Iran to extend the ceasefire in the war by 60 days. On Thursday, negotiators from the US and Iran reached a tentative agreement to extend their ceasefire and hold a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, a US official said. Iran has not publicly confirmed the deal, and the tentative agreement was still awaiting sign-off from US President Donald Trump. Oil prices hit a one-month low on optimism over a de-escalation of the…
Published on 28/05/2026 – 20:51 GMT+2•Updated 29/05/2026 – 9:46 GMT+2 Portugal’s Ministry of Internal Administration stated, in a clarification sent to the Lusa news agency, that a further 48 officers from the Public Security Police (PSP) will be deployed to Lisbon airport from Friday onwards. According to the same source, a further 14 “boxes” – that is, document control booths – will also be made available at arrivals, taking the total to 34, and another four at departures, raising their overall number to 18. This is intended to speed up border control procedures. As for the “e-gates”, or electronic gates,…
The world tour “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” marked Bad Bunny’s debut in Portugal. After a stop in Barcelona, the Puerto Rican singer, winner of 3 Grammys and 11 Latin Grammys, performed for two nights at Estádio da Luz in front of thousands of fans. On the unofficial set list for the two concerts, Benito brought around 30 songs to Lisbon, most of them from his sixth album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, released in January 2025 and one of his most garlanded records. In fact, DTMF is the first album sung entirely in Spanish to win the Grammy for Album of…
At the local elections, the Conservative Party lost hundreds of councillors and dozens of seats across England, Scotland and Wales, but Kemi Badenoch declared a comeback. So this week, Sascha O’Sullivan goes inside the Conservative Party’s hopes for a renewal. She speaks to Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride in Solihull and James Cowling of Next Gen Tories about why they think the Tories can make a revival. Henry Hill, political editor at The Critic, who has spent years covering Conservative politics, and pollster Scarlett Maguire tell Sascha about the flaws in the Tories’ plan.
Hello readers. Angela Skujins here ringing out the week with your Friday newsletter. Before we dive in, news broke early this morning that a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people. “These are not mistakes – these are provocations,” Polish Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Michał Baranowskijust told Euronews’ Europe Today programme. “We are no longer in peace,” he added, referring to the drone incursions in his country last year, as well as the others rocking the Baltics in recent weeks. Watch. The big stories driving Brussels’ agenda…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 8:38 GMT+2 An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during her record-breaking Eras Tour. He has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on multiple charges including those related to the concert. Beran A was accused of planning to use knives or homemade explosives to kill people at one of the singer’s shows in the capital in…
Séjourné is the most vocal public champion of tougher action but Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra also told POLITICO that he was a “hardliner” on the issue: “What I’m going to make part of the conversation [on Friday], I am worried about our significant dependencies on China, where we pretty much have the same track record as with Russia.” But others, like Teresa Ribera, are positioning themselves as more nuanced on the debate and more open to working with China, arguing that cooperation serves Europe’s interests better than potential confrontation. With the debate just getting started, the real question may be…
Published on 29/05/2026 – 7:23 GMT+2 For many people Winston Churchill is best known for making stirring wartime speeches and smoking fat cigars, but Britain’s most famous prime minister also loved to paint. That less known side of his character is the subject of a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London that seeks to explore his creativity. The organisers of the show have described it as the most significant display of Churchill’s paintings for more than 60 years. It includes more than 50 canvases, many of them rarely seen in public. Churchill first tried painting during World War…
“After literature, the censor Bolloré now wants to control filmmaking. It is unacceptable to allow a billionaire to threaten artists in this way,” said hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, threatening to dismantle Bolloré’s empire. Socialist leader Olivier Faure slammed the move by Canal+ as a sign that “the far right has never liked freedom, creativity, or public service.” More diplomatically, Culture Minister Catherine Pégard regretted Canal+’s “disproportionate, to say the least” reaction to “the very real concerns that were raised.” The conservative mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, slammed the artists as masochists for “biting the hand that feeds them.” Canal+ declined…