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Published on 31/08/2026 – 10:00 GMT+2•Updated 10:02 Europe must accept higher short-term costs to reduce its dependence on China for clean-energy technologies, EU Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has told Euronews, warning that delaying action will make the strategic vulnerability harder and more expensive to unwind. The EU should have confronted its reliance on China “five to ten years ago”, Hoekstra said, arguing that waiting longer would bring greater disruption and costs. “But it will be much cheaper and much more to our advantage to do it now than be wishy washy and wait another five to 10 years,” the…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 8:49 GMT+2 A car bomb exploded in front of a police station in Mexico on Sunday night, wounding six people, authorities said. The blast happened in the town of Ojocaliente in Zacatecas, a state with key routes for drug trafficking. “The explosive was placed in a private vehicle and caused physical damage to the station and properties located nearby,” state government secretary Rodrigo Reyes said in a post on Facebook. “Six civilians have been reported wounded, who are receiving medical care,” he said in an earlier post. Zacatecas is key to the drug trade because it…

TAP ended the first half of the year with a loss of 99.2 million euros, a 40% deterioration compared with losses of around 70 million euros in the same period last year, as rising fuel costs put pressure on the accounts. Despite the negative net result, the company increased revenue by 4% and carried a record number of passengers in the first six months of the year, according to a statement released on Monday by the airline. TAP carried 8.2 million passengers between January and June, 4.2% more than in the same period of 2025, operating 57.5 thousand flights, up…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 9:28 GMT+2 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced plans to name Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, following the death of the 80-year-old country music star, actress and philanthropist last week. The news comes after thousands of fans signed an online petition to rename the airport after Parton, who was born in rural Tennessee and later moved to Nashville. Lee said in a statement that he had spoken to Parton’s team, who “expressed their appreciation for the extraordinary outpouring of support to honour Dolly”. “Dolly Parton’s extraordinary life is forever woven into the fabric of our…

To Meli’s business has been massively successful, with revenues up almost 300 percent from 2013 to 2024, according to their financial accounts. Their neighbour, the Greek-owned Papillon, has seen its revenue climb by four times, Vassilis Tsourapis, the manager of the café, told POLITICO.  Tsourapis, like many of the staff members, ended up working at Papillon through a family relation. Another waiter at To Meli is the owner’s cousin.  Everything and nothing Greek coffee culture is fundamentally not about speed, efficiency or even caffeine. Italians famously drink their coffee at the bar, standing up, whether it’s a shot of espresso…

After a summer of dramatic wildfires and an intense heatwave across Europe, EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra is calling for more investment in climate prevention, saying it’s better to pay upfront than fix the damage later. In an exclusive interview with Maria Tadeo, he also warned the EU has built too many strategic dependencies and must level the playing field with China to win the climate transition, accusing Beijing of not playing by international trade rules.

Rescuers were trying to find trapped workers in hydroelectric plant tunnels on Monday after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet killed at least 900 people and left more than 4,700 missing. In Nuwakot, one of the worst-affected Nepali districts, helicopters have been delivering food, clothes and supplies to cut-off communities while ferrying survivors and the injured out of flood-hit areas. In Kathmandu, the walls of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital are now covered with posters bearing the faces of the missing, as families wait for news of loved ones swept away when the floodwaters surged through.

His party’s 150-page program for governing Saxony-Anhalt does not lack in ambition either. In it, Siegmund calls for Trump-style mass deportations of asylum-seekers — even though Saxony-Anhalt is one of the most ethnically homogeneous parts of the country, with only 1-in-13 citizens of migratory background. He promises to defund public broadcasters deemed hostile and unpatriotic, ban all symbols of “woke” culture — including pride flags — in schools and, as part of his fight against “the extinction of the German people,” offer tax breaks for families consisting of “a father, a mother and as many children as possible.” In an…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 8:05 GMT+2 On today’s show: Méabh Mc Mahon and Jorge Liboreiro break down why Iceland voted no to restart EU membership talks in this weekend’s referendum. Margrét Ágústa Sigurðardóttir, secretary general of the Icelandic Farmers’ Association, and Dagur B. Eggertsson, MP and former Mayor of Reykjavík, react to the referendum results. Interview: Wopke Hoekstra, EU Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth, joins Euronews after a summer of wildfires and heatwaves across Europe, saying prevention needs more investment now, rather than paying the damage later. Angela Skujins reports from Mons on a Canadian national of…

Published on 31/08/2026 – 7:17 GMT+2 One person died and around 15 people are missing or unaccounted for after a major flash flood at the Grand Canyon forced evacuations, swept large boulders into the Colorado River and knocked out the sole water pipeline that serves tourists and residents, the National Park Service said on Sunday. The body of a 46-year-old man was recovered late on Sunday evening near Crystal Rapids along the Colorado River, the park service said without providing additional details. Coroner’s officials were at the scene. Weekend flooding in Arizona’s Bright Angel Creek, which flows into the river,…