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Published on 10/06/2026 – 5:08 GMT+2 Kuwait’s military said Wednesday its air defences were engaging “hostile aerial targets”, as the United States and Iran traded attacks after the downing of an American helicopter. “The General Staff of the Army announces that Kuwaiti air defence systems are currently engaging hostile aerial targets in accordance with established operational procedures,” the Kuwaiti army posted on X, without specifying their origin. Iran had said it targeted the nation to retaliate over American airstrikes earlier Wednesday morning, also claiming attacks targeting Bahrain and Jordan. Tehran had vowed to respond after the US launched airstrikes on…
The incoming EU deal will “give impetus” to those plans, Cyprus’ Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides told reporters in the run-up to a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers last week, saying that he expects more countries, including his own, to start discussing the topic. “Now that we’ve got the legal basis, we believe that we’ll get some flesh on the bones in the coming months,” he added. Ioannides said the “general idea” is to set up return hubs “maybe in Africa or Asia” but “not close to European borders.” Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Greece have had regular discussions…
By Euronews Published on 09/06/2026 – 22:25 GMT+2 Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will pilot Artemis III**,** NASA confirmed on Tuesday, one of the key missions to prepare a human crew to return to the moon for the first time since 1972. Parmitano’s inclusion underlines the central role played by Europe in the new phase of space exploration. The mission, currently scheduled for the second half of 2027, will not head directly to the Moon. It will instead be an experimental flight in low-Earth orbit, designed to test key procedures and technologies, in particular those related to docking between NASA’s Orion capsule…
LONDON — The United Kingdom will have to slash public sector spending to finance defense, causing “pain and great difficulty” for the ruling Labour Party, a former NATO chief and senior party official warned on Tuesday. George Robertson — a former U.K. defence secretary who co-wrote last year’s Britain’s Strategic Defence Review and is now in the House of Lords — warned Labour MPs that Britain’s military spending promises and its NATO commitments must “come from domestic budgets.” Speaking at the Defence Strategic Communications Conference in London, Robertson said there is “no other way” defense can be funded as there…
Cars loaded with mattresses, luggage, household items and pets clogged the coastal highway, with many families heading towards Saida and other areas further north. The evacuation reflects mounting concern over the security situation in one of Lebanon’s largest southern cities, where recent strikes have already caused deaths, injuries and significant damage. The movement of civilians comes as regional tensions continue to rise after renewed exchanges of fire involving Israel, Hezbollah and Iran. Religious leaders in Tyre’s historic Christian quarter called for urgent international action after Israeli warnings expanded to areas previously spared from bombardment. According to Lebanese authorities, the latest…
The two Gulf leaders were asked to join talks next Tuesday to secure and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic. Renewed strikes between Israel and Iran, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to respond to Tehran’s shooting down of an American helicopter, have fueled fears of renewed hostilities. However, Trump said earlier Tuesday that a deal to end the war was within reach. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is also joining the talks as a partner nation of this year’s G7. G7 leaders, including Trump, are to meet at the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains for a summit…
The US’s ongoing withdrawal of key military assets from Europe will cost €500 billion to replace, European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday, warning that the bloc must work together and start producing the “big items” it needs to defend itself – or suffer the consequences. “We have big defence industrial challenges at the moment for the European Union,” he said at a public event in Brussels. “German experts just recently calculated that it will cost around €500 billion for Europeans to build those strategic enablers and to replace American strategic enablers now located on the European continent.”…
Published on 09/06/2026 – 19:34 GMT+2 During construction work for a solar park, a Celtic princely grave has been uncovered for the first time. Experts classify the discovery and the artefacts it yielded as exceptionally significant. Among the grave goods recovered are several gold rings, an Etruscan beaked jug probably imported from what is now Tuscany in Italy, as well as the remains of weapons. Archaeologists also found traces of a two-wheeled wagon, including non-ferrous metal fittings from the wheel hubs and axle caps and iron tyre fittings. The finds suggest that the person buried there was probably a man,…
DUBLIN — The European Union should target Russia’s ability to produce metals and refine oil in its next round of sanctions, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday. Kallas was speaking on a visit to Dublin shortly after the EU published its 21st package of sanctions designed to increase pressure on Russia over its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her focus on metals poses a particularly awkward question for Dublin. The Irish are due to take the EU Council’s rotating presidency in July — and they host a Russian company that manufactures alumina, the key ingredient for Russian aluminum. The…
The European Union has invested €527 million into a flagship fund designed to better connect the Western Balkans to the bloc’s transport network. However, more than a decade after the initiative was launched, EU auditors warn that the region is unlikely to complete its core European transport network by the 2030 deadline. As the EU seeks to deepen ties with candidate countries and expand its influence in the Western Balkans, the bloc still lacks a reliable overview of whether many of the projects it finances there are being delivered on time and within budget, according to the latest audit from…