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The start of the school year is usually synonymous with a lot of expenses for families. There are new books to buy, school materials, uniforms, sportswear… A long list, sometimes endless, that makes family spending skyrocket when September arrives. The amount of money that parents in Spain will have to spend to provide their children with the necessary material for the return to school in the 2025-2026 academic year is the highest in the last seven years. Specifically, households will spend an average of more than €500 per pupil, compared to around €492 spent during the previous school year, according…
By Euronews with AP Published on 30/06/2025 – 10:41 GMT+2 •Updated 11:06 France’s football union has blasted the FIFA Club World Cup, saying it is “urgent to stop this massacre” amid ongoing concerns about player welfare. The Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels (UNFP) also accused FIFA president Gianni Infantino of living “in an ivory tower” by ignoring the impact congested calendars have on players worldwide. “The incongruity of the situation is not lost on anyone, except, of course, Gianni Infantino and his flatterers. From the height of his ivory tower, which he parades around the world, the FIFA president is not bothered by…
Published on 28/08/2025 – 15:34 GMT+2 Deforestation in tropical regions is leading to a surge in heat-related deaths, according to a new study that highlights the growing human cost of forest clearance. Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the research finds that local warming caused by tropical deforestation has already exposed more than 300 million people to higher temperatures and is associated with around 28,000 excess deaths every year – about half a million in the past 20 years. In areas where forests were cleared close to population centres, the impacts were especially stark. Around 48 million people in…
Outrage spread across Italy in mid-August when it emerged that men in a Facebook group named Mia Moglie, translated as My Wife, were circulating photos of their wives alongside degrading remarks. The group was as easy to access as it was disturbing to scroll through. Pictures of women—some clearly taken in secret, others likely meant to remain private within a chat or marriage—were followed by offensive comments. Some were casual but inappropriate, like “congratulations”; others were hypersexual, such as “that mouth is perfect to work”; and some were obscene, like “the best therapy for a woman is always a man’s…
Switzerland is one of Europe’s most beloved destinations, with dramatic Alpine landscapes, picturesque towns, lush valleys and peaceful meadows. Travellers can bike, hike, swim, kayak and canyon in summer, and ski, toboggan and snowboard in winter, among other things, making Switzerland a true year-round holiday spot. But how well do you really know the country and all it offers? For a more immersive holiday, pick some of these classic journeys on your next trip to Switzerland. Travel from Zermatt to St. Moritz on the world’s slowest express train The Glacier Express, widely known as the slowest express train in the…
Published on 02/09/2025 – 11:44 GMT+2 Celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood is speaking out after her award-winning dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was included on a list of more than 200 books removed from public school libraries under the Canadian province of Alberta’s new school restrictions. In July, Alberta’s education ministry ordered school libraries to remove “materials containing explicit sexual content” by 1 October. In response to this equally dystopian ruling, Atwood wrote on X, “Get one now before they have public book burnings,” and released a new short story online that satirizes the book ban. The story focuses…
Piergiovanni’s appointment also signals the president’s heightened attention to a policy area that has become increasingly political, both externally, in the context of transatlantic trade tensions, and internally, as the bloc looks to revisit rules on mergers and public industry funding in an effort to boost economic growth. Earlier this week, the Commission halted an antitrust decision targeting search giant Google under U.S. pressure in trade talks. The EU executive is also under increasing pressure to bend rules on public industry funding — or state aid — to allow EU countries to funnel cash into their industries. There are also…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 13:00 GMT+2 An image is circulating widely on social media claiming to show an Allied forces WWII nurse taking the names of soldiers who died during the D-Day landings in Normandy in France. The picture is typically shared with captions saying that the men were buried in makeshift graves on Omaha Beach before proper cemeteries were built, and that nurse Clara Thompson wrote down the names of each soldier that she tended to. Her notebook was supposedly found decades later in her daughter’s attic. The image has appeared all over Facebook and X, but the…
By Lina Ferreira Published on 04/09/2025 – 11:17 GMT+2 Lisbon City Council has decided to shut three more funicular cable railways for inspection, after at least 15 people were killed when one derailed on Wednesday. The accident on the Glória funicular, a popular tourist attraction in the city centre, also injured more than 20 others. The dead were all adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, who did not disclose the victims’ nationalities. Foreigners were among the 21 wounded, she added, noting that the injured came from Cape Verde, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, South Korea…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 12:57 GMT+2 •Updated 13:33 The head of Russia’s largest bank has said the country’s economy has reached a stage of “technical stagnation.” Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, German Gref, who runs Sberbank, said that Russia would have to slash interest rates to avoid a recession. GDP data from July and August showed “quite clear symptoms that we are approaching zero,” after figures from the second quarter of the year revealed signs of economic stagnation, Gref noted. As the significant cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine was sparking inflation,…