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By Euronews Published on 23/12/2025 – 10:16 GMT+1 Four people were injured, three of them critically, in a hydrogen explosion at the Elkem Silicones site in Saint-Fons, south of Lyon, on Monday afternoon. The blast occurred around 2:30 pm in an experimental workshop at the silicone materials production facility, a high-threshold Seveso-classified site in France’s “chemical valley”. The explosion ignited a fire in a 600-square-metre building, which was brought under control by early evening. Around 100 firefighters and 30 emergency vehicles were deployed to tackle the blaze. All four injured were Elkem Silicones employees. Two are in critical condition, whilst a…
Published on 23/12/2025 – 9:56 GMT+1 •Updated 10:20 After hosts Morocco opened the tournament with a 2-0 win over Comoros, attention in Group A turned to Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca, where Mali met Zambia in the day’s first fixture. Mali were awarded a first-half penalty but failed to convert, before finally breaking the deadlock just after the hour mark through Lassine Sinayoko. Zambia refused to fold, and Patson Daka struck deep into stoppage time with a powerful header to seal a 1-1 draw. Fans enthusiasm “I think it was a very good game because football is, above all, a…
By Euronews Published on 23/12/2025 – 9:46 GMT+1 The world of gaming is paying tribute to Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty, who’s died in a car crash in California. He was 55. Video game company Electronic Arts says Zampella died on Sunday. According to local reports he died while driving his Ferrari north of Los Angeles. A passenger, who also fell victim to fatal injuries after being ejected from the vehicle, has not been named. The cause of the crash is under investigation. In 2010, Zampella founded Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of EA, and he also was the former…
The government’s intention is to instead break any AI-related legislation up into smaller chunks. Nudification apps, for example, will be banned as part of the government’s new Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, AI chatbots are being looked at through a review of the Online Safety Act, while there will also need to be legislation for AI Growth Labs — testbeds where companies can experiment with their products before going to market. Asked about an AI bill by MPs on Dec. 3, Kendall said: “There are measures we will need to take to make sure we get the most on growth and deal with regulatory issues. If there are measures we need to do to protect…
A motorbike caravan of government supporters took to the streets of Caracas on Monday during a National Assembly debate on a proposed antipiracy bill. Some protesters wore pirate costumes and carried posters, staging a symbolic demonstration as lawmakers discussed legislation related to freedom of navigation and trade. The rally coincided with the arrival of senior officials at the assembly building. The bill, approved in a first reading, is set for a second legislative debate before potentially becoming law, while public demonstrations continued outside the chamber.
“We need a fundamental discussion on the Europeanization of customs,” Cavazzini told POLITICO. As chair of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), the lawmaker from the German Greens has been pushing the Council, the EU’s intergovernmental branch, to allow the customs reform to make the bloc’s single market more of a unified reality. European lawmaker Anna Cavazzini. | Martin Bertrand and Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images EU capitals worry — as always — about handing over too much power to the eurocrats in Brussels. But the main outstanding issue where negotiators disagree is more prosaic: it’s…
By Euronews with AP Published on 23/12/2025 – 7:52 GMT+1 •Updated 7:52 The US military said it struck another boat suspected of smuggling drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing one person. At the direction of US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organisations in international waters,” the US Southern Command wrote in a post on X. “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” it added. The strikes…
Poland’s long-planned mega-airport is set to open in 2032 with a new name: Port Polska. The transport hub, located between Warsaw and the smaller city of Łódź, hopes to welcome 40 million passengers annually. It puts it in the same league as the likes of London Heathrow and Istanbul. The project received approval in 2017, but progress has been marred by a corruption scandal involving the previous government. Current Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who was elected in 2023, has vowed to give the scheme “a clean start”. He previously said the airport will “completely revolutionise travel across the country…
Flood of parliamentary questions Marc Henrichmann, a conservative lawmaker and the chairman of a special committee in Germany’s Bundestag that oversees the country’s intelligence services, said that while the government is not obliged to divulge classified or highly sensitive information in its answers to parliamentary questions, Russian intelligence services can still piece together valuable insights from the sheer volume and variety of AfD inquiries. “Apart from insignificant inquiries and sensitive inquiries, there is also a huge gray area,” Henrichmann said. “And what I have regularly heard from various ministries is that individual inquiries are not really the problem. But when…