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The European Parliament is set to call FIFA President Gianni Infantino for a hearing over his controversial plan to allow private investment in its competitions, which has met with furious backlash in the football world and led European football associations to threaten a boycott of the next World Cup. A draft letter obtained by Euronews and now circulating among MEPs from all political groups is inviting Infantino to answer lawmakers’ questions directly, in the spirit of “transparency and democratic accountability that FIFA has itself publicly endorsed”. The plan involves setting up a new company to run FIFA’s competitions and selling…
On 12 August 2026 a total solar eclipse will cross the North Atlantic before passing over Iceland and Spain. It will be the first total eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999 – and travellers are excited. Booking data shows that it could become one of the biggest demand events of the year. Where to see the solar eclipse in Europe? Unlike most travel trends, eclipse demand is remarkably concentrated. Travellers don’t spread evenly across a country. They “flock to the narrow corridor where the eclipse can be seen in full, creating a sharp but short-lived spike in bookings”, explains…
Published on 31/07/2026 – 14:11 GMT+2 Netflix is being sued for $105 million by a production company which claims that the streamer lost a hard drive containing an unreleased Nicolas Cage movie titled Fortitude. The lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court by writer-producer Simon Afram and his company, Op-Fortitude, accuses Netflix of compromising the sale of the World War II thriller. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a copy of the film was on one of several hard drives stolen from Netflix offices in Los Angeles last month. In a statement to THR, the streaming giant denied all claims made…
The first-ever case of an artificial intelligence agent going rogue coincides with the EU’s major new powers to regulate AI. But Europe’s leverage may be limited by the U.S.-China two-way race for AI supremacy. Jul 27 6 mins read
European right-wing figures blame the escalation in the Ceuta enclave on Spain’s naturalisation policy, in what left-wing parties call opportunistic attacks. On Thursday, thousands of migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, prompting Spain’s Interior Ministry to declare a national emergency and mobilise troops to restore order in the autonomous city. Leading right-to-centre figures across Europe have seized on the escalation, accusing Madrid of losing control of its border and blaming the mass illegal crossings on Spain’s extraordinary regularisation of hundreds of thousands of migrants. “Appalling situation at the Spanish border. The devastating images are the direct consequence of the…
Video shows large-scale sculptures by American artist Carole A. Feuerman installed along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, transforming the public space into an open-air gallery. The exhibition, titled ‘Monuments of Stillness’, features 12 sculptures created by Feuerman, a pioneer of the superrealist movement known for her detailed human figures. The artist says she wants her work to make art accessible to people who may not often visit museums. Feuerman has spent more than five decades exploring the human body through sculpture. Her Chicago exhibition ends in November, bringing contemporary sculpture directly into the city streets.
“The government of Emmanuel Macron decided that my public comments … represented an immediate danger to the Republic,” she wrote on social media. “My behavior … consists of living in France for nearly ten years in compliance with the law, paying my taxes, but also having an opinion and expressing it as part of my work as a journalist,” she added. According to the expulsion order seen by daily Libération, Fedorova was accused of “destabilizing public order,” spreading “disinformation” and acting “as a conduit for disinformation campaigns led by the Russian authorities.” Fedorova headed RT France before it was shut…
As Spain battles to contain wildfires amidst reports of another heatwave, misleading claims about the response to the blaze and its origins have spread online. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez himself has urged the public to rely on credible information and warned about the spread of false claims. Speaking in Almería on 13 July following a visit to the site of the fire in Los Gallardos in south-eastern Spain, he called the role of the media “crucial” in combatting “misinformation”, adding that the spread of false information can make an emergency more difficult. Later on, on 27 July, Sánchez thanked…
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A visa-on-arrival scheme for Turkish travellers to visit 12 Greek islands has greatly simplified access to this corner of the EU, which was previously off-limits without a hard-to-get Schengen visa. Introduced in April 2024, the scheme, known in Türkiye as the “door visa” (kapi vizesi), initially covered 10 Greek islands before being renewed and expanded to 12 last year. The list of islands in the Aegean Sea – all near the Turkish coast – includes Chios, Kalymnos, Kastellorizo, Kos, Leros, Lesvos, Limnos, Patmos, Rhodes, Samos, Samothraki and Symi. It allows Turkish citizens to visit participating islands for up to seven…