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Published on 10/07/2026 – 15:19 GMT+2 Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party was facing new questions about financial gifts on Friday after a report said police were investigating donations by the mother of a convicted fraudster. It comes as authorities confirmed that a snap UK vote in which Reform leader Nigel Farage will go up against novelty candidate Count Binface will take place on 13 August. Reform, an anti-immigration group that has led the ruling Labour party in opinion polls for well over a year, is facing intense scrutiny over several alleged undeclared donations. The Times daily reported late on Thursday…
Crowds filled the streets of Pamplona on 10 July as the San Fermín festival reached one of its busiest days, with thousands gathering for the fourth running of the bulls before a packed programme of celebrations continued into the night. The day’s encierro began at 8:00 a.m., drawing runners from around the world through the city’s narrow streets. The most serious incident occurred on the sharp bend leading into Estafeta Street, where several bulls slipped and fell, knocking down a number of participants. According to Navarra University Hospital, nine people were injured, five of whom were taken to hospital for…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 13:58 GMT+2 Global oil demand will fall by one million barrels a day in 2026, the IEA said on Friday, making it the first annual contraction since 2020, when Covid lockdowns grounded aviation and shuttered industry. The comparison flatters this year’s decline in one respect, since demand collapsed by around eight million barrels a day at the height of the pandemic, but it underlines how severely the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has damaged the global economy. The contraction is “highly skewed in both product and regional terms”, the agency noted in its monthly report.…
By Célia Gueuti with AFP Published on 10/07/2026 – 12:24 GMT+2 Celebrations turned into a tragedy in northern France overnight after a 17-year-old girl died after falling from the back of a lorry. The incident occurred shortly after 12:30 am as a jubilant crowd soaked up the French national team’s victory over Morocco in the World Cup quarterfinals. The teenager fell from the truck as it entered a roundabout and was crushed. Emergency responders tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Six minors were present when the accident happened. One of them was taken to Maubeuge hospital in…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 11:31 GMT+2 Now that 10 years have passed since the original’s release, do you fancy contributing to Disney’s Scrooge McDuck vault by shelling out for a ticket to watch a shot-for-shot live-action knockoff of Moana? No? Thought not. If you loved the original animated tale, stay away. There’s nothing in the new version that matches 2016 Moana ’s vibrancy or adds anything to a film that didn’t need fixing. If you were enchanted and moved by the coming-of-age nautical adventure of a Polynesian chief’s daughter (then Auliʻi Cravalho, now Catherine Laga’aia) chosen by the ocean to…
The Meta findings come just days before an EU panel of experts is set to deliver a recommendation on Monday that will give further momentum to calls for setting a minimum age to use social media platforms. Meta could face fines up to 6 percent of annual revenue for breaching the Digital Services Act if it fails to meet the Commission’s requirements issued on Friday. The tech giant can now examine the evidence the EU executive has gathered against it, and lay out its official defense. “We disagree with these preliminary findings, which don’t accurately take into account the significant…
Updated: 10/07/2026 – 12:24 GMT+2 French Economy Minister Roland Lescure reacts to Spain’s proposal for a new joint EU debt instrument worth up to €850 billion, while warning of potential risks. “If one country transfers its debt to the whole community, that might be an incentive for that country to take on more debt,” Lescure says. … More
Starting with culture to stabilise the Middle East. It is a political proposal put to the European Union by several Syrian intellectuals, mainly those now living in Europe, such as the Syrian linguist and musicologist Nabil Al Lao, former director of the Damascus Conservatory, later founder and superintendent of the opera house in the Syrian capital between 2003 and 2010. “The EU countries, especially France, Germany, Italy and Spain, have the tools to launch a cultural policy in the Levant with an initial, visible impact that could evolve into a concrete, broader political process,” Professor Al Lao tells Euronews. This…
Dutch media reported several incidents after Moroccan fans took to the streets in multiple cities on Thursday night, following their team’s 2-0 loss to France in the World Cup quarterfinal. Fans threw glass bottles at the police, prompting anti-riot officers to disperse crowds, according to the daily newspaper De Telegraaf. In Rotterdam, policemen were pelted with eggs, while in Amsterdam rioters reportedly fired fireworks at law enforcement and behaved aggressively toward journalists. Yeşilgöz is known for her tough stance on migration. “There are too many people coming into our country,” she wrote on X last year, prior to becoming minister. “This…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 12:08 GMT+2 A wildfire that has been raging since Thursday afternoon in Almería, Spain, has killed 11 people, according to figures released by the regional government of Andalusia. Early investigations suggest that many of the deaths may have resulted from one critical decision: some of the victims appear to have abandoned a designated evacuation route. Antonio Sanz, regional minister responsible for emergency services, said specialists were looking at two different scenarios to explain the fatalities. Four British nationals died inside a vehicle while seven other people died while walking, having left their cars behind in an…