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Iran unleashed an intense wave of strikes across the Gulf region on Wednesday morning, while continuing its stranglehold of the Strait of Hormuz, in an intense attacking upsurge signalling that the war continues unabated, despite US President Donald Trump’s statements on Tuesday night that the intervention was “pretty much” completed. Euronews journalists in Doha and Dubai reported intensive waves of Iranian attacks on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in the two capitals and across the region. Two Iranian drones fell in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport on Wednesday morning, the second time after a similar strike on Saturday, injuring…
Published on 11/03/2026 – 12:11 GMT+1 The 98th Academy Awards are nearly here, which means we get to be nosy / jealous / indignant about this year’s celebrity swag bags. Whether you win or lose at the Oscars, no one goes home empty-handed as a lavish goodie bag is given to the acting and directing nominees. As if A-listers needed more stuff… But Hollywood’s gonna Hollywood, and this year’s consolation gift bags are reportedly worth $350,000. Each. Once again, and for the 24th year running, LA-based entertainment marketing company Distinctive Assets is independently producing the “Everyone Wins” nominee swag bags,…
Asian members — hit hardest thanks to their heavy exposure to the Persian Gulf — and the U.S. are also strongly supportive of tapping the reserves, according to two European officials familiar with the matter. French President Emmanuel has convened a virtual meeting of G7 leaders at 3 p.m., which is expected to address the release decision. The IEA — a key venue for wealthy countries to coordinate oil and gas supplies set up after the 1973 oil embargo — first proposed the measure late Tuesday during an extraordinary all-members meeting that followed a gathering of the G7, according to another person familiar…
By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 11/03/2026 – 12:33 GMT+1 A rare painting by the Italian baroque master Caravaggio, thought to date from 1598, has been bought by Italy for €30 million, in one of the country’s largest investments for a piece of art. The “Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini” depicts the future pope in his 30s, dressed as a cleric of the Apostolic Chamber, at a crucial moment in his rise to power. He went on to become Pope Urban VIII in 1623 and was notable for being a patron of the arts and Baroque architecture. The work was made famous…
GBE — which is funded by DESNZ and of which Ed Miliband, in his role as energy secretary, is the sole shareholder — has a budget of £8.3 billion to spend on clean power projects, including nuclear. Amelio Enterprises was bought by the renewables company Good Energy Group — headed by chief executive Nigel Pocklington — in October 2024. At the time the contracts were awarded, his brother, Jeremy Pocklington, was permanent secretary at DESNZ. Pocklington was the top official at DESNZ between February 2023 and November 2025, when he left the department to become permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence. He declared his brother’s…
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It is the first time the Met Police has used its powers to ban protest marches since 2012. Met Police Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said in a statement the planned march “raises unique risks and challenges” which include “high numbers of protestors and counter protestors coming together and the extreme tensions between different factions.” “The context is so uniquely complex and the risks are so severe that placing conditions on the protest will not be sufficient to prevent it from resulting in serious public disorder” with the public, protestors and police officers facing risk of injury, he added. Adelekan said the…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has underlined the European Union’s “unwavering commitment” to international law and the multilateral system, two days after she invited controversy by declaring the 27-member bloc could “no longer be a custodian for the old-world order, for a world that has gone and will not return”. That speech, delivered on Monday morning at the annual conference of ambassadors, met a mixed reception: von der Leyen’s defenders said it was a much-needed dose of realpolitik, but critics said it risked giving permission for Europeans to turn a blind eye to legal breaches. The pushback was…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party faced a setback on 8 March, when it failed come first in a state election in Germany’s third-largest state of Baden-Württemberg. In a close vote, the Green party finished ahead of the CDU with 30.2% of the ballot, making it likely they will run the state in a coalition with Merz’s party. Elsewhere, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party almost doubled its result from the previous state election in 2021, coming in third place with 18.8% of the vote. The result comes as both international and domestic polling suggests the chancellor…
Published on 11/03/2026 – 10:17 GMT+1 Speaking to Euronews’ flagship morning program Europe Today, Jørgensen urged European countries to “lower their taxes on electricity” as soon as possible in response to the current spikes in energy prices due to the war in the Middle East. “Of course, there’s a very clear concern fo us that the prices are too high for our citizens and our indistries,” Jørgensen said. “we’ve sent a very clear signal to the member states of the Union, and we recommend that you lower the taxes on electricity.” Tax cuts applied quickly would “make it easier for…