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By Euronews Travel Published on 16/07/2025 – 9:51 GMT+2Tourists and locals have been evacuated on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula after the twelfth volcanic eruption in the region since 2021. Magma pushed up through the Earth’s crust, opening a fissure thought to be between 700 and 1,000 metres long, the Icelandic Meteorological Office has said. It belched columns of smoke into the air, and dramatic lava flows can be seen on live video of the eruption. It comes after an eruption in April this year breached protective barriers near the fishing town of Grindavik, causing emergency services to evacuate residents and tourists staying…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News Now details of the enormous accidental data breach by a British soldier that put thousands of Afghans’ lives at risk can be discussed publicly ― Sam and Anne try to address some of the biggest questions on this episode. They include: Why did the government break the glass on using a superinjunction? Has anyone been sacked? Why did the Labour government keep the superinjunction in place for so long? There’s still a bit of time to go over Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech. Did it reassure financiers and investors?
‘One step behind the Europeans’ Despite Trump’s increasing disillusionment with Putin for his lack of interest in a peace deal, the U.S. president has dithered on taking concrete steps to drastically step up military aid to Ukraine. So the Europeans, led largely by Merz along with Rutte, found a workaround. European leaders knew it would be much easier for Trump — who sees global politics, from trade to NATO, largely as zero-sum financial transactions — to agree to supply arms for Ukraine if the Europeans bought them, allowing the U.S. to swing a profit. But they were also aware of…
Published on 16/07/2025 – 7:15 GMT+2Hungary has called for European Union sanctions against Ukrainian officials following the reported death of a Hungarian citizen during military mobilisation in Ukraine.Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed last week that József Sebestyén, a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian from Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region, was beaten to death for refusing to join the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian authorities have firmly denied the allegations, stating the mobilisation was lawful and that Sebestyén died of a pulmonary embolism with no signs of bodily harm.”The Hungarian government has initiated the inclusion of Ukrainian leaders responsible for József Sebestyén’s death on the EU’s human…
The Song and Dance Festival is a perfect reminder that countries can have a strong national identity and collectively nurture it, and that they can do so entirely peacefully. It also demonstrates that a nation can be strong and resolute while posing no threat. On the afternoon of July 5, I sat down with Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna at this year’s festival. However, the purpose of our meeting was not to discuss politics. It was to discuss the power of communal singing and dancing. Tsahkna arrived wearing a hat and sash that identified him as a member of the…
57,1 Prozent Pünktlichkeit – die Bilanz der Deutschen Bahn ist ernüchternd. Und trotz Milliardeninvestitionen und Plänen zur Streckensanierung bleibt die Lage prekär. Rixa Fürsen und Rasmus Buchsteiner analysieren, warum Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder noch zögert, der Bahn mehr Tempo zu verordnen – und ob Vorstandschef Richard Lutz bleiben kann. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview warnt Bahn-Gewerkschafter Martin Burkert vor zehn weiteren Jahren „Tal der Tränen”.In Brüssel will Ursula von der Leyen mit neuen EU-Abgaben Milliarden für Verteidigung und Digitalisierung auftreiben – über Tabaksteuern, Elektroschrott und eine neue Abgabe für Unternehmen mit mehr als 50 Millionen Euro Umsatz. Doch Friedrich Merz lehnt höhere Abgaben strikt…
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) minister for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian described as “shocking and disappointing” the European Union’s refusal to act against Israel for violations in Gaza and the West Bank. The PA governs the West Bank while Hamas controlled has the Gaza Strip for much of the last two decades. It has been severely weakened because of Israel’s assault in Gaza. EU foreign affairs ministers failed on Tuesday to agree on any action against the Jewish state despite an EU report showing Israel is in breach of article 2 of the Israel-EU Association Agreement that underlines that human rights and…
The options, discussed in a meeting Tuesday, include “recommending … an extension of the current European Parliament lobbying ban to include third-party lobbying firms representing Amazon’s interests, not just Amazon employees,” the note read. Such a step would considerably raise the stakes by threatening the access of lobbyists belonging to dozens of interest groups and organizations of which Amazon is a member or affiliated with in Brussels, including powerful tech lobby groups like DigitalEurope, CCIA Europe, ITI and others. Two Parliament officials, granted anonymity to disclose details from the closed-door meeting, said no formal decision had been taken yet. The…
That will require “innovation and procurement measured in months, not years,” the review said. The Ministry of Defence is undertaking major reforms to how it buys technology, including by creating a dedicated Defence Innovation unit, while the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said last month it will work more closely with the MoD “to pull through innovative capabilities to mission at speed and foster a thriving and world-leading U.K. defence technology sector.” In a long-term plan last month, DSIT said backing dual-use technology through better use of procurement and a greater share of R&D funding would not just…
“Art is free and cannot be censored. Propaganda, however, even if done with talent, is something else,” Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli said in a statement. Gergiev’s concert in Italy “risks sending the wrong message,” Giuli said, and could turn the festival “into a sounding board for Russian propaganda.” Still, the minister clarified that the festival organizers are free to invite whomever they choose. Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, also condemned Gergiev’s appearance in Italy amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, calling the conductor “a promoter of Putin’s criminal policy, his accomplice and supporter.”…