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Erdoğan has repeatedly said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and last week Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz described Israel’s Armenian genocide recognition vote as “an attempt to cover up their own crimes.” Israel’s government has strongly denied committing genocide. Under discussion is the Ottoman Empire campaign that is estimated to have killed more than 1 million Armenians and is widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Numerous EU members recognize the events as a genocide, and in 2015 the European Parliament passed an anti-genocide resolution marking the events’ centenary. Many scholars also consider…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 21:47 GMT+2 The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said on Tuesday they were conducting raids in four countries to probe alleged misappropriation of EU funds by the former far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European parliament. The EPPO said the searches were “part of an ongoing investigation into the use of EU funds by a former political group of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2024.” The ID group was formally disbanded after elections in 2024 and was succeeded by a new grouping Patriots for Europe. It contained MEPs from a range of Eurosceptic…
Here are the five key things to know about the DIP. 1. Britain is not on track to meet its NATO commitment The plan says that the U.K. defense spending will reach 2.7 percent of GDP — up from the earlier 2.6 percent settlement that lead to former Defence Secretary John Healey quitting earlier this month. In raw numbers, the U.K. will spend £297.7 billion on defense over the next four years, with the investment plan adding £15 billion to the military budget agreed last year — up from £13.5 billion when Healey quit. The government said it will spend…
Pope Leo XIV will visit the Italian island of Lampedusa on 4 July in a highly symbolic visit as he continues to advocate for migrants’ rights. The Vatican announced the three-and-a-half hour visit in April which is scheduled to take place on the same day as the pope’s native United States marks Independence Day. Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken on the issue of migration and has already visited one of Europe’s migration hotspots, Spain’s Canary Islands, where he stressed the need for a shared response to one of the archipelago’s biggest challenges. The pontiff arrived in Gran Canaria earlier…
By Euronews Published on 30/06/2026 – 20:09 GMT+2 WhatsApp is set to allow users to go by usernames instead of phone numbers as part of a privacy push. The messaging service, which is owned by US tech giant Meta, announced on Monday that people could begin to reserve usernames this week to use when the feature rolls out later in the year. “Usernames are our latest step to make WhatsApp even more private,” WhatsApp said in a blog post. “There’s no directory to browse and no suggestions – people will need to know your exact username to contact you for the…
Russia is the world’s second-largest crude oil exporter and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, making the prospect of gasoline imports politically and economically surprising. Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend publicly acknowledged that Russia faces a fuel shortage, saying national gasoline reserves have fallen to 1.7 million metric tons — around 4 percent lower than a year ago. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has described imports as one of the government’s key tools for stabilizing the market, while Russian lawmakers last week approved tax changes creating subsidies to help finance gasoline purchases from abroad. The supply squeeze has…
At least four people have been trapped after a four-storey block of flats collapsed in central Athens on Tuesday, the Greek fire brigade said. Emergency services have been deployed to the scene to help with the search and rescue operation and footage shown on local media showed workers walking in the rubble looking for signs of life. It is not immediately clear why the block in the Petralona neighbourhood, which housed seven apartments, collapsed. Construction work was reportedly under way in the building next door, local media reported. This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 19:12 GMT+2•Updated 19:49 The US Supreme Court has struck down an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump that aimed to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born on American soil. A majority of five Justices decided that Trump’s order violated the country’s 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson in agreeing that the policy was unlawful. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgement but wrote separately that he did not agree that the order violated the 14th Amendment, although he said it…
“This national team plays the way this federal government governs: big on ambition, short on resolve. Everyone struggles on their own, no one takes responsibility, and when luck finally does appear, the goal doesn’t count,” wrote German Member of the European Parliament Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann on X, referring to a controversially disallowed goal made during overtime, which would have brought Germany victory. There is “always a link between sport and politics,” said professor of political science Alexander Straßner — and Europe’s largest economy is no exception. Much like its men’s football team, over the last decade, the country’s automotive sector and…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has at last presented his government’s Defence Investment Plan, a spending programme that aims to ensure Britain’s military future by raising defence investments to £80 billion (€92.8 billion) a year by 2029. Building and buying stealth fighter jets, submarines and warheads are all on the menu, with £5 billion (€5.8 million) allocated solely for the development of drones, a move Starmer hailed as “the largest ever UK investment in this technology”. “We will build an army that is ten times more lethal, with attack drones flying alongside our Apache helicopters, a new fleet of surveillance…