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By Peter Barabas & Babak Kamiar & Aleksandar Brezar Published on 22/09/2026 – 14:51 GMT+2•Updated 14:59 Conflicting reports emerged from Tehran on Tuesday over whether Iran had privately offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, as unnamed Iranian officials told Reuters and Japan’s Kyodo news agency that the proposal had been conveyed to Washington through mediators — a claim Iranian state-affiliated media quickly denied. According to Kyodo, the proposal aims to achieve a permanent end to the war between the two countries. Kyodo’s report said Iran would welcome a revival of diplomacy with the US if Washington also takes steps towards peace,…
Brussels is shielding its carmakers when it should be helping them change, argues Bruegel, an independent research institute and one of Brussels’ best-known economic think tanks. The EU’s recent measures, from tariffs on Chinese vehicles to proposals for local-content requirements and a softer 2035 ban on new combustion engines, are setting the industry on the wrong course and could push up the cost of an electric car by more than €2,000, it says. “This approach is misguided,” the report states, adding that “because of climate and costs, the future is electric. Discussions on slowing the transition to EVs are an…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 13:26 GMT+2•Updated 13:31 The head of Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE says he supports Spain continuing to boycott this year’s Eurovision contest over Israel’s participation. RTVE president José Pablo López said it was “deeply painful” that Israel’s public broadcaster remained eligible to compete while the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continued. López said he would ask the board of RTVE to uphold Spain’s departure from Eurovision, with a final decision expected by mid-October. López told a Senate committee on Tuesday that it was “deeply painful” that Israel’s public broadcaster would continue to participate in Eurovision “despite everything, and…
“Unfortunately, Italy will not exit the excessive deficit procedure ahead of schedule this year, as we had hoped, but … this may happen in 2027,” Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said in a statement on Tuesday in response to the fresh statistics. The figures come as a disappointment to Meloni’s government ahead of the country going to the polls in 2027. The state of the economy will be top of voters’ minds as Rome continues to struggle to contain energy and debt costs amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, and opposition parties argue that Meloni’s failure to meet the…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 13:46 GMT+2•Updated 14:01 Soldiers returning from the front line in Ukraine are bringing back weapons and military equipment, raising concerns that battlefield components could start circulating within the European Union, according to a confidential EU document seen by Euronews. The risk of firearms being diverted from the battlefield will be discussed by EU ambassadors on Wednesday, as European authorities step up efforts to track weapons entering the bloc. “Member states have reported weapon components and military equipment in the possession of returning combatants,” reads the EU Council document, which focuses on the war in Ukraine’s impact…
By Ali Hasan & Euronews Arabic Published on 22/09/2026 – 13:33 GMT+2 Iraq’s government is pressing ahead with a plan to collect an estimated 6 million weapons held outside official institutions, the Interior Ministry said, even as Baghdad quietly retreated from a September 30 deadline that had been set for armed factions to surrender their arsenals. Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Hussein al-Awadi said the government was treating 30 September — originally set as a hard deadline for factions to hand over weapons, timed to coincide with the final withdrawal of US-led coalition forces — as the start of a regulatory process rather than…
Published on 22/09/2026 – 12:18 GMT+2•Updated 13:47 After a downward trend in the first half of 2026, rents in Portugal began rising again in August, and anyone looking for a one-bedroom flat now has to pay more than €200 above the minimum wage. According to a recent report by the property portal idealista, covering the second quarter of 2026, renting a one-bedroom flat (known as a T1 in Portugal) costs a median of €1,128 per month, a figure that is 123% higher than renting a room, which comes to €505 a month. At district level, Lisbon is the most expensive…
Brussels has allocated €1.4 billion to defending Europe from cyberattacks. According to its own auditors, nobody is properly checking whether that money could be reaching organisations exposed to influence from hostile states. The warning comes from a report published on Monday by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), which examined how well the EU detects and responds to major cybersecurity incidents between 2022 and 2025. Grant beneficiaries are responsible for assessing the ownership and control of any third parties receiving EU cybersecurity funding. But the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre, the body overseeing these grants, does not verify those assessments itself,…
A new book published on Tuesday by the brother of the late Princess Diana has made headlines around the world with its damning allegations about her ex-husband, now King Charles III, and reopened decades-old wounds within Britain’s royal family. In “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” Charles Spencer alleges that he argued with the then-Prince Charles over palace plans for Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk behind their mother’s coffin during her 1997 funeral procession. Spencer says he told Charles that Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36,…
The French president’s push for an energy truce comes amid increased pressure from Trump on Zelenskyy to halt Kyiv’s targeting of Russia’s energy sector. “Mr Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump said on Sep. 13. “The world’s diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran,” he wrote a day later on social media. Despite Trump’s calls, Ukraine continued targeting Russian energy infrastructure, sparking a fire overnight on Tuesday at a major refinery in Samara, southwestern Russia. The Ukrainian Armed Forces said their strikes on Russian…