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Many people walking the streets of Lisbon will be greeted by an unusual sight: an ambulance riddled with bullets, completely out of action. The story of the vehicle, now on display in the heart of the Portuguese capital, goes back to 2022 during a rescue operation in Kharkiv, Ukraine. “A medical team was called out to rescue a woman injured in a bombing. After they had entered the building to rescue her, this ambulance came under fire,” Roman Grymalyuk, president of the Portuguese-Ukrainian association ORANTA, tells Euronews. For this Portuguese-Ukrainian citizen, although the vehicle stands as evidence of Russian attacks…
King Charles has also shown an interest in the development and regulation of AI. The king met Nvidia’s Huang and tech executives from Apple, Amazon and Google during a state visit to Washington in April, where he highlighted collaboration on AI between the U.S. and U.K. He also hosted a banquet at Windsor Castle during President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. last September which was attended by tech industry leaders including Huang and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman. Trump’s visit coincided with the announcement of significant investment in the U.K. by U.S. tech firms and the signing of…
The radical-right Alternative for Germany’s landslide victory in the Saxony-Anhalt region election may be the first real crack in the power structure that has held European politics together since the Second World War. On Sunday, Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a resounding victory in the eastern German region, taking 43.8% of the vote. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which leads the governing coalition in Berlin, collapsed to 17.2%, while its junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), managed just 9.3%. For the first time since the Nazi period, a German region could be led by a far-right force,…
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The former prime minister stood down from the House of Commons last week. He said he wants to devote more time to international affairs, despite previously pledging to remain an MP until the next general election. In 2024, Starmer held the seat with a 11,572 majority, but faced a strong challenge from a left-wing independent candidate and the Greens. Green Leader Leader Zack Polanski has put himself forward for the party’s nomination, arguing that under him “voters will have someone who will always fight their corner.” He is facing a challenge from Hamza Chowdhury, a councilor in the Camden Green…
Published on 07/09/2026 – 16:26 GMT+2•Updated 17:15 The European Union will invest an additional €200 million in Greenland over the next two years to deepen economic ties and extract raw materials, Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday during an official visit to the vast Arctic island. “We know that the Arctic has become one of the places where the tectonic plates of geopolitics collide, so we have a direct stake in what happens here,” the president of the European Commission said in Nuuk. The financial package aims to expand the bloc’s presence in the semi-autonomous territory, which has long…
Published on 07/09/2026 – 22:54 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier that it would no longer be permitted to sell in the US unless it began manufacturing in the country, in what is the latest episode in a growing trade war between Washington and Ottawa. In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump wrote: “No more selling Bombardier in the United States!” “Their products aren’t good enough!” he continued, while claiming that the company lived off “American buyers, American companies, American airports, and American service.” He added: “If they want our market, they…
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday unveiled the first portal (source in Spanish) for the state public housing stock, launched by the State Housing and Land Agency CASA 47. The platform starts with 800 homes available and, according to La Moncloa, a further 1,500 spread across the country will be added “very soon”. During the closing session of the event “More public housing, more affordable housing”, held in Madrid, Sánchez said the aim is to make it easier to access housing at affordable prices and lamented that “for far too many people, looking for a home has turned into an…
Le commissaire européen chargé du dossier, Dan Jørgensen, avertit les Etats membres : ils doivent prendre au sérieux la question de l’accès au logement, sous peine de céder le pouvoir aux populistes d’extrême droite. Dec 15 7 mins read
Published on 07/09/2026 – 21:52 GMT+2•Updated 21:58 Staff at the Eiffel Tower staged a walkout on Monday, forcing the closure of the iconic Parisian landmark after female employees were said to have been moved out of sight during the visit of a Hindu religious group. The row began after the visit of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) Hindu movement, which inaugurated a new temple in France over the weekend. Diane Davoine, a union representative, told French TV that female workers had been “moved away from their workstations as the delegation passed by” during…