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Spanish police have arrested 13 people suspected of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, authorities said on Friday. The arrests were made in five cities in the first operation in Spain to dismantle a suspected cell of the prison gang, which the US government designated a foreign terrorist organisation in February, police said in a statement. The arrests of the 13 individuals took place in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, A Coruña and Valencia. The gang has become a key target of the Trump administration’s military strikes against suspected drug smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific and…

Neutra was 21 when he was killed during the Oct. 7 attack and his body was taken into Gaza, where it remained for more than a year before being recovered under the current ceasefire. His parents spoke of the long months when they believed he was still alive, describing how their lives had been shaped by waiting and uncertainty. Senior Israeli and US officials also attended the ceremony, calling Neutra a figure tied closely to both countries. For his family, the funeral marked the first time they had a place to grieve.

Published on 07/11/2025 – 16:09 GMT+1 A British man who would “dream about being like James Bond” was jailed for seven years on Friday after attempting to spy for Russia. Howard Phillips, 65, was found guilty in July for trying to pass information about former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to two men whom he believed were Russian intelligence agents. However, the agents were undercover British intelligence operatives. “You were prepared to betray your country for money,” Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Phillips at his sentencing hearing at Winchester Crown Court. The judge said that Phillips had “a personality with narcissistic tendencies…

Published on 07/11/2025 – 16:14 GMT+1 Greek Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis announced a comprehensive crackdown on crime in Crete, including stricter gun penalties and permanent deployment of an elite organised crime unit following a deadly shooting in Vorizia that killed two people and injured at least six others. “The glass is overflowing … no more bullies and local mafias in Crete,” Chrysochoidis said at a Heraklion press conference, unveiling legislative changes and reinforced police presence on the island. The measures follow Saturday’s shooting in Vorizia village near Heraklion, where gunfire erupted during what authorities described as a family feud,…

Published on 07/11/2025 – 21:48 GMT+1 EU officials and the Belgian government have failed to break the deadlock over the proposal utilising of immobilised Russian assets to fund Ukraine reconstruction over the next two years. A technical meeting between the Commission and the offices of Prime Minister Bart de Wever and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot took place on Friday. According to sources close to the discussions there’s growing concern in the Belgian government at the lack of alternative proposals from the European Commission to using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine. The EU is pushing for a plan to use…

A concert by the Israel Philharmonic orchestra in Paris was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters who set off alarms and flares inside the venue, causing brief panic and forcing musicians off the stage. Four people were detained. The French government denounced the incident as antisemitic and an assault on freedom of cultural expression. The protesters had previously urged cancellation of the event, calling it a form of cultural whitewashing of Israeli policies.

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged support for a Brazilian initiative to support the conservation of the world’s endangered forests, at international talks on the edge of the Amazon rainforest ahead of the annual United Nations climate conference, COP30. The initiative, dubbed the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, drew $5.5 billion (€4.7 billion) in pledges, with Norway and France promising to join Brazil and Indonesia in investing. Merz said that Germany would make a “considerable” pledge, but didn’t specify an amount. The fund eventually seeks to leverage investments into $125 billion (€108 billion) that can be used to pay 74 developing…

Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards, announced Friday, with nine nods including record, song and album of the year for his acclaimed album GNX. It marks the third time Lamar has been nominated in all three top categories simultaneously. With 22 Grammy wins and 66 nominations overall, Lamar could make history if GNX becomes the first rap album in over 20 years to win album of the year. Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff, and Canadian producer Cirkut follow with seven nominations each. Gaga earned her first-ever simultaneous nominations for record, song and album of the year.…

Despite the controversy, Serbia’s parliament pushed the project through, with President Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party passing a special law to strip the site of its cultural protections. Lawmakers took the unusual step of invoking a constitutional provision to declare the development a project of national importance, thereby allowing it to proceed.   Opposition lawmakers lashed out at the government over its decision, with center-left MP Marinika Tepić claiming Belgrade was sacrificing the country’s history simply “to please Donald Trump.”  “In a place where bombs once fell, you now plan to pour champagne,” she said.  But Vučić has argued the project is necessary to improve ties with Washington, accusing its critics of wanting to get in the way of “better relations with the Trump administration.”  Kushner, who has no…

A video showing a young man claiming to be a Ukrainian conscript being sent to the frontline crying into a camera has been circulating on social media. The video, which shows a man speaking in Ukrainian saying the words: “I don’t want to die, I’m only 23”, has amassed hundreds of thousands of views in different European countries, where it was subtitled in Hungarian, German and English. One Hungarian version of the clip has generated 1.8 million views alone. Euronews’ verification team, The Cube, found further instances of the video being reshared with captions in French, Spanish, Greek, Turkish and…