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Published on 04/02/2026 – 6:45 GMT+1 The United States have reached an agreement with Mexico under which Mexico would send a minimum amount of water annually to the US. The deal comes after US President Donald Trump threatened Mexico with 5% tariffs on Mexican imports if it did not deliver more water and follows months of negotiations. Under the new deal, Mexico will send at least 350,000 acre-feet (43,172 hectare-metres) of water to the US each year, during the five-year cycle. An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (0.4 hectare) of land at a depth…
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the truce began last Friday, a day after Trump announced he reached a deal with Putin not to bomb Ukraine for a week, as freezing temperatures were coming. The pause was also supposedly tied to ongoing U.S.-led peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, which resumed Wednesday in Abu Dhabi. “We await the reaction of America to the Russian strikes,” Zelenskyy said in a Tuesday evening statement. “It was the U.S. proposal to halt strikes on energy during diplomacy and severe winter weather. The president of the United States made the request personally. Russia responded…
Tech billionaire and X owner Elon Musk blasted Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, calling him a “tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain” in response to Madrid’s plans to roll out new measures aimed at regulating digital platforms and protecting minors. Musk reacted to a video in which Sánchez announced a new legislative package that will include laws aimed at holding social media executives accountable for failing to properly police their platforms. The new laws are also set to ban under-16s from accessing social media, as Madrid expressed its concern with the rise of hateful and incendiary speech plaguing…
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LONDON, 4 February 2026 – High Trail Wealth, a global family office based in London, announced a multi-country philanthropic initiative designed to strengthen education systems and reduce poverty across the Western Balkans. The initiative will focus on expanding access to quality schooling, early childhood education and skills development for children and youth in communities facing persistent socio-economic hardship. This commitment is driven by one of the firm’s core families with deep heritage in the region, reflecting High Trail Wealth’s role in helping clients direct capital back to their roots. The programme was inspired by their first-hand experience of growing up…
Published on 04/02/2026 – 11:00 GMT+1 They say you never forget your first love. And looking at recent headlines, it seems the EU and the UK are considering getting back together. Or at least, becoming friends with benefits. But what benefits are we actually talking about? First, the done deal: Erasmus is back. Starting in 2027, British students can once again study at EU universities, and vice versa. It is a massive U-turn. The UK government agreed to pay around €650 million a year to rejoin. Second, the stuck deal: defence. The plan was for the UK to join SAFE,…
By Euronews Published on 04/02/2026 – 10:55 GMT+1 At least 15 people were killed Tuesday night after a coast guard vessel collided with a speedboat carrying migrants in the sea off the Greek island of Chios. Out of the 25 people that were rescued, 24 including 11 children were hospitalised on the eastern Aegean island near Turkey. One of the people rescued later died. Two coast guard officers were also lightly injured, the coast guard said. It is unclear how many people were on the speedboat at the time of the incident, as the search for those missing continued on Wednesday.…
In 2025, Brazil recorded 9.3 million international tourists, a 37.1% increase over the previous year’s 6.7 million. An unprecedented figure, it places the country at the forefront of global tourism growth, according to UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) The economic impact of this massive influx of visitors is remarkable. Tourism already accounts for 8% of Brazil’s GDP, and international travellers brought around €7.3 billion into the country in 2025, a key injection for the national economy in the context of recovery and international repositioning. European tourists top the list Europe has become one of the main drivers of this boom.…
As a result, some 60 percent of tenants said they had felt too hot at home at least once over the past five years, versus just over 40 percent of owners. Beyond heat, the survey looked at flooding, wildfires, water scarcity, wind damage and increasing insect bites. In total, 80 percent of respondents said they had been affected by at least one of these impacts over the past five years. But heat waves, which are made more frequent, longer and hotter by climate change, emerged as the top concern, with nearly half of respondents saying they had felt too hot…
Published on 04/02/2026 – 10:19 GMT+1 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will fly to Australia later this month in a bid to seal a long-delayed trade agreement, sources familiar with the matter told Euronews. Concluding the deal would mark another trade win for the Commission, following recent deals with Latin America’s Mercosur bloc and India, as geopolitical tensions intensify with the US and China. One source said von der Leyen could head to Canberra shortly after the Munich Security Conference concludes on 15 February. Whether the trip goes ahead will depend on progress in negotiations led by EU…