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Colombia declared three days of mourning on Wednesday for the victims of an earthquake that demolished buildings in the west of the country, killing more than 200 people. At magnitude 7.4, Monday’s quake was the strongest to hit Colombia in a century. The government said flags would be lowered to half-staff on official buildings, as well as at Colombian embassies around the world, “in honour of all the dead.” Frantic attempts to find survivors continued, as authorities revised the death toll down to 216 after local officials in Cali corrected earlier figures. In Pereira and in Cali, emergency crews used…
By Sergio Garcia & Euronews en español Published on 12/08/2026 – 14:20 GMT+2•Updated 15:00 “Will Elon Musk come?” The question has been echoing through the streets of Lerma, a picturesque town south of Burgos in northern Spain, for days. The arrival of SpaceX has transformed this community of more than 2,500 residents, where locals, hospitality workers and tourists are looking towards the Parador, one of Spain’s state-run heritage hotels, trying to work out what is happening behind its doors. The company founded by Musk booked it a year and a half ago to watch the total solar eclipse from there this Wednesday. Musk…
It’s the casting news that continues to drive cinema fans and the internet into a frenzy: Who will be the next 007? Names like Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi, Louis Partridgeand Tom Francis have been circulating as frontrunners for the role of James Bond, and now, there seems to have been a leak. Speaking on his The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, Richard Osman, the beloved British TV presenter and author of the best-selling Thursday Murder Club mystery novels, has revealed the name of the actor who is reportedly being “strongly considered” for the role. Osman claimed to have insider…
The eruption of Sicil’s Mount Etna volcano, now in its sixth consecutive day, continues to disrupt air traffic in the island at the height of the summer season. On Wednesday, Catania–Fontanarossa Airport was forced to suspend all arrivals and departures until 6 pm. According to data from the airport’s tracking system, around 55 outbound flights have been cancelled, on top of roughly 388 departures scrapped between the start of the eruption and the previous day. Dozens of other flights have been rescheduled or diverted to other airports in the region, notably Palermo, Trapani and Comiso. At the latter airport, operations…
The eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from Europe since 2006. The path of totality will cross northern Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Greenland and northern Russia. London is expected to see around 90 per cent of the Sun obscured, while shoppers in Paris queued for more than two hours outside a specialist store on Rue de Rivoli. In Spain, where several areas lie within the path of totality, many distribution points have already sold out. Pharmacies in central Madrid have been selling certified glasses for between €3 and €4 a pair, while prices in France range from €1.50…
Price growth in the world’s largest economy slowed again last month, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures published on Wednesday, but only as much as expected, leaving the Federal Reserve’s September rate decision uncertain. Prices rose 0.1% on the month after falling 0.4% in June, taking the annual rate to 3.4%, well below May’s 4.2%. Core prices, stripping out food and energy, rose 0.2% after being flat in June, easing to 2.5% from 2.6% annually. Every figure matched the Dow Jones consensus, though the annual falls owe much to comparisons with a strong summer in 2025, and…
By Alice Galliott with AP Published on 12/08/2026 – 14:30 GMT+2 The 64-year-old drove the JCB Hydromax, a 9.75-metre car built by British construction equipment manufacturer JCB. The record, ratified by motorsport’s governing body the FIA, was measured as the average of two runs and more than doubled the previous hydrogen combustion mark of 185.5 mph, set in 2004. Green already held the diesel land speed record, set at Bonneville in 2006, and remains the only person to have broken the sound barrier in a car — a feat he achieved in the jet-powered ThrustSSC in 1997, at 763 mph. The Hydromax runs…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 14:48 GMT+2 Europe’s new border system is turning passport control into a serious headache, with peak queues at some of the continent’s busiest airports as much as doubling. New data shows wait times have doubled at major hubs including Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Munich, as the Entry/Exit System (EES) scheme struggles to cope with the sheer number of non-EU passengers passing through. Data shows that the biometric EES, which requires non-EU travellers to register fingerprints and facial scans, has seen queue sizes soar, as well as passengers missing flights. The study by UK-based newspaper the Financial Times…
Germany’s postwar foreign intelligence service was founded in 1956 with far more legal constraints than intelligence agencies elsewhere. Those restraints have had the side effect of making Germany particularly dependent on the U.S. for intelligence gathering. In view of the growing threat from Russia, leading politicians now argue that it is time for Germany’s spies to be given the ability to hit back harder. That argument took on new urgency following the sighting of an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig-Halle Airport in eastern Germany last week that was found near a Ukrainian Antonov plane used to transport munitions. Dobrindt, in remarks…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 14:43 GMT+2 Ukraine has struck Novorossiysk, Russia’s main operational hub on the Black Sea, which has become Moscow’s last major naval base in the region after sustained Ukrainian attacks forced much of its fleet from occupied Crimea. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as a “unique operation” and said strikes on the designated targets had been confirmed. He gave few further details, saying Ukraine had used Palianytsia jet-powered drones, Neptune missiles and unmanned naval systems to target air-defence positions, piers and port infrastructure. “The occupation fleet and all the infrastructure supporting it will not be safe…