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Ukraine has secured exemptions allowing it to source military equipment from outside Europe under the EU’s €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan. France is now pushing to limit how long those exemptions can remain in place, in an effort to ensure more of the EU-backed funding supports European — and potentially French — defence production, Euronews has learned. In April, EU countries approved the Ukraine Support Loan, a €90 billion financial instrument to support Kyiv’s war effort in 2026 and 2027. It is split into €30 billion in economic support and €60 billion for military assistance. The first disbursement came in…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 16:45 GMT+2 Norway is planning to clamp down on the use of smart glasses and similar devices in response to concerns over privacy issues, Oslo announced on Tuesday. Norway’s Ministry of Digitalisation said it was seeking “stricter regulation” on the wearable tech and that it was urging both the public and private sectors to “consider their own guidelines.” “We see that people’s privacy and data protection are being put under pressure by new technology, so I will therefore regulate smart glasses and similar devices more strictly than today,” Karianne Tung, Norway’s Minister of Digitalisation and Public…
Guterres and ICRC chief Mirjana Spoljaric underlined that targeting civilians in war is a violation of international humanitarian law, and said they fear that machines won’t be able to tell the difference between combatants and non-combatants. Both called for a ban on autonomous weapons which produce unpredictable results and anti-personnel weapons that deliberately target human beings. The UN is set to hold a conference in Geneva in November to review its treaty on conventional weapons. Lethal autonomous weapon systems are expected to be a subject of that gathering. The UN has long been pushing countries to progress on legally binding…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 17:01 GMT+2•Updated 17:04 CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in Moscow on an unannounced trip on Tuesday, according to US media outlets. CBS News reported that Ratcliffe was in the Russian capital, citing sources familiar with the situation. Neither Washington nor Moscow have confirmed Ratcliffe’s presence, and it was not immediately clear who the US spy chief was expected to meet or what would be discussed. News of the visit came after a US Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport earlier in the day. Flight-tracking data showed that the…
By Aleksandar Brezar & Euronews Arabic, Euronews Persian Published on 25/08/2026 – 11:48 GMT+2 Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed Washington’s decision to remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, in another step toward major sanctions relief amid Damascus’ efforts to rebuild the country after years of civil war. “Today, Syria shakes off a dark stain and tears away a painful chapter of its past to embark on a path of development, reconstruction and rebuilding,” al-Sharaa said in a speech early Tuesday. Washington’s decision on Monday rescinded a decades-old designation that came with severe economic restrictions, marking another step in warming…
The officials were the targets of so-called “state-sponsored spearphishing,” the presentation said, a term for state-backed, targeted and bespoke campaigns to get specific people to click on dodgy links or open malicious attachments. Hackers used “social engineering techniques” to trick EU officials, crafting personalized messages that were more likely to get targets to take the bait. Earlier this year, POLITICO first reported that the European Commission told some of its most senior officials to shut down a Signal group over hacking fears. It came at the same time as a series of warnings by national cyber authorities telling governments to move…
The Spanish government is expected to present a draft bill to reform immigration and asylum laws as it struggles to contain the political fallout of the Ceuta crisis, which saw 80,000 people cross illegally from Morocco into the Spanish city in one day in July. Madrid said the aim is to “bring Spanish legislation into line with the European Pact on Migration and Asylum”, which came into force this summer. However, the timing comes as the migrant crisis in Ceuta remains unresolved. While the vast majority of the 80,000 people who crossed the border illegally have returned to Morocco, around…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 15:04 GMT+2 Qatar and Pakistan are continuing efforts to revive negotiations between the US and Iran, with officials speaking to the parties daily to explore possible ways forward, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. “Our officials are on the phone on a daily basis trying to workshop ideas, workshop ways of getting back to the negotiations,” Majed Al-Ansari told reporters in Doha. Al-Ansari did not provide details of the proposals being discussed but said Qatar remained focused on reaching a diplomatic solution to the ongoing war between the two sides. “Our priority was always reaching…
Since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has stepped up efforts to bring privately owned assets — including industrial and defense-related companies — under state control. Around 805 companies were transferred to the state between 2022 and 2026, according to Vadim Yakovenko, head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. “We are not talking about nationalization,” Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said in a press conference Tuesday, according to the state-owned news agency TASS. He blamed business owners for approaching threats “with varying degrees of responsibility.” In some cases, “ensuring the security…