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A high-speed train has derailed and been hit by another in southern Spain killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 120, authorities said on Monday. The accident happened at 7:45 pm (1845 GMT) near Adamuz in the province of Cordoba, about 360 km south of the capital Madrid. It left 122 people injured, with 48 still in hospital and 12 in intensive care, according to emergency services. The rescue operation was complicated by the remote location of the crash. Video and photos showed twisted train cars lying on their sides under floodlights late on Sunday. Passengers reported climbing…
By Euronews with AP Published on 19/01/2026 – 12:00 GMT+1 China hit its official growth target in 2025 thanks to strong exports — despite US president Donald Trump’s tariffs — but slowing quarterly growth and weak consumer demand are raising doubts about the economy’s underlying strength. Growth slowed to a 4.5% rate in the last quarter of the year, the government said on Monday, the slowest quarterly growth since late 2022 when China began to loosen stringent COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The economy, the world’s second largest, grew at a 4.8% annual pace in the previous quarter. China’s leaders have been trying to spur…
By Mohamed Elashi & Ana Caiola with Africanews Published on 19/01/2026 – 11:49 GMT+1 •Updated 12:04 Pape Gueye scored in extra time for the Teranga Lions to beat host Morocco 1-0 in a chaotic final on Sunday, which at one point saw fans trying to storm the field and Senegal’s players walking off the pitch to protest a penalty decision deep into second-half stoppage time. It was unclear whether the game could continue amid fan-steward clashes. “We all saw what happened at the end of the match, but we took the decision to come back onto the pitch and give everything,” Gueye said. Play resumed…
“A tariff war isn’t in anybody’s interests,” he said. “What I want to do is to avoid a tariff war, because it will be businesses, workers and families across the country that will be hit by a trade war.” Britain has “not got to that stage,” he said on the question of U.K. retaliation. “My focus, therefore, is making sure we don’t get to that stage, and that’s what I’m doing at the moment,” he added. Despite highlighting the principle “that cannot be set aside” of Greenland and Denmark determining its own sovereignty, Starmer called for “calm discussion” and differences…
MEP and Head of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with the United States, told Euronews’ morning show Europe Today that he does not expect an upcoming vote on the EU-US trade deal scheduled for next week to proceed. “Inevitably, the vote that was foreseen next week in the trade committee of the European Parliament to actually advance the deal will be frozen,” Benifei told Euronews. “I’m sure this will be the result.” US President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to impose new tariffs on eight European countries that don’t support his plans to annex Greenland. He then left the…
Published on 19/01/2026 – 11:20 GMT+1 Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” online video showed early on Monday, the latest disruption to follow nationwide protests in the country. The footage aired on Sunday night across multiple channels broadcast by satellite from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the country’s state broadcaster which has a monopoly on television and radio broadcasting. The video aired two clips of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, then included footage of security forces and…
European markets opened lower on Monday as threats from US President Donald Trump reignited a trade war with traditional allies across the Atlantic. At around 10am CET, France’s CAC 40 had slipped 1.28%, Germany’s DAX was down 1.02%, and the UK’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.27%. Spain’s IBEX 35 fell 0.59% and Italy’s FTSE MIB slid 1.43%. Meanwhile, the wider STOXX 600 fell 0.87%. European leaders will meet this week to decide how best to respond to threats from US President Donald Trump to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. Washington announced on Saturday that eight European countries would face a…
Norway’s government does not award the prize, which is given out by an independent committee. The American president’s declaration that he is no longer so fixated on playing peacemaker comes amid his increasingly aggressive saber-rattling on Greenland, the self-ruling Danish territory he has vowed to seize for the U.S. Over the weekend, Trump announced he would slap punishing tariffs as of Feb. 1 on European countries that stood against his plans to annex Greenland, leading European Council President António Costa to call an emergency summit of EU leaders for this week. Trump campaigned hard for the Nobel award, which former U.S. President Barack…
US President Donald Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published on Monday. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump said in a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The authenticity of the message was confirmed to the AFP news agency by a source close to the matter and by Støre to Norwegian newspaper VG. It is…
After a weekend tariff assault by President Trump on the UK and Europe – triggered by the fallout from the U.S. ambition to buy Greenland – the Prime Minister rips up the agenda to hold an emergency news conference in Downing Street. Sam in London and Anne in Davos go through the options for Sir Keir Starmer and assess whether the PM should retaliate or find a diplomatic way through the choppy waters. Back in the Commons, Sam has the latest on the row over the Hillsborough law as the government pulls the legislation amid a battle with campaigners over…