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Published on 25/08/2026 – 19:24 GMT+2•Updated 19:27 Three people have been arrested after Slovak police said they thwarted a planned arson attack on a drone manufacturer’s production facility in eastern Slovakia. In a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, police said two individuals were detained in Slovakia while a third person was arrested by German authorities after a European arrest warrant was issued. They are suspected of preparing the attack “as accomplices on someone else’s instructions.” None of those arrested were Slovak nationals, the force said, adding that it had acted on information provided by Slovak intelligence. It also did…
A tornado filmed from Verzeille, near Pomas in southern France, swept through the area on Monday. The footage shows the funnel forming beneath dark storm clouds before moving across the village. The storm damaged about 300 homes and injured 39 people, according to local authorities. Two of the injured were in a critical condition. Rescue teams searched damaged buildings, while emergency centres opened to accommodate residents whose homes were unsafe. The Aude region was under a thunderstorm alert when the tornado struck. Roofs were torn off, trees were damaged and debris was scattered across the affected villages. No people were…
Italian energy giant Eni is ramping up its investment in Egypt, with plans to drill 30 exploration wells and 200 development wells as it deepens its role in the country’s oil and gas sector. Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in El Alamein on Tuesday, along with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badawi, to discuss the company’s expanding footprint in Egyptian fields and its role in building out Egypt’s position as a regional gas hub. Eni has invested a total of $8.5 billion (approximately €7.3bn) in Egypt to…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 19:12 GMT+2•Updated 19:14 A strange new AI system called Ox Alpha has created a storm of confusion among tech analysts and users alike. Nobody knows who made this model, which dropped on OpenRouter as an anonymous proprietary stealth model on 20 August. While it is not open source, it is currently offering a free preview until 27 August, after which it is yet to be determined whether the model will be chargeable or not. Although the maker and owner of this model is currently unknown, there are suspicions of it potentially belonging to China-based Zhipu AI’s…
“Our armed forces, intelligence services, and, of course, the National Intelligence Center carried out the work that was and is required of them, and shared and analyzed this information with the state security forces and the staff of the government delegation,” the minister told lawmakers, defending the work of the agents she oversees. Robles’ statement directly contradicts the Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s version of events. For weeks, he has insisted the national government did not reinforce the border in Ceuta because it had no way of anticipating the sudden migrant surge. The minister underscored this point during an extraordinary meeting…
Published on 25/08/2026 – 15:11 GMT+2 A group of EU officials will travel to China in the coming days to advance trade talks, as Brussels seeks to narrow a record €1 billion-a-day trade deficit with Beijing, Euronews has learned. The European Commission hopes the technical discussions will deliver “tangible” results by October, when EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is expected to travel to China. However, talks launched by the Commission and Beijing in June have become strained in recent weeks after China barred companies from providing information to Brussels in investigations under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the EU’s rules aimed…
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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…