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“At the bars it was obviously the central topic of conversation, but I don’t think anyone predicted that this morning Orr and Jukes would resign,” the second business dinner attendee said. “The assumption was they would try and brush off and basically fight back, say it’s a hoax etc.” By breakfast there was clarity. Ed Sumner, now indisputably Farage’s most senior communications adviser, spent his birthday morning confirming Jukes and Orr had “stepped down” pending an internal investigation. “The party believes it is important that the investigation is allowed to proceed independently and without prejudice. No further comment will be…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 14:51 GMT+2•Updated 16:51 Brazil’s EU ambassador, Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, told Euronews on Friday that an inspection of Brazilian meat was unnecessary, and signalled that “all options are on the table” for Brazil to respond if the EU ban remains in place. The European Commission’s decision came into force this week, after Brazil was removed from a list of countries complying with EU food safety rules over its use of antibiotics to stimulate animal growth. The EU ban prompted anger from the Brazilian government on Thursday, which threatened to adopt countermeasures. “There wasn’t a…
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A Russian drone attack on Friday afternoon struck the central Kyiv headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the state’s top counterintelligence agency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack “directly” targeted the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the acting head of the SBU, Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko separately said that nine people had been injured in a fire following a drone strike “on a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district,” where the SBU headquarters are located. Zelenskyy said on Telegram that he spoke with Poklad after the attack, while Ukrainian Pravda reported that he was…
French minister for European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, told Euronews he’s “quite confident” the French electorate will reject extremism, and won’t elect a far-right candidate to replace President Emmanuel Macron in next year’s election. His comments come days after an Elabe poll for BFMTV/La Tribune Dimanche showed Le Pen dwarfing all other candidates; predicting her to win between 34% and 35.5% of first-round votes. Le Pen, the president of the far-right National Rally party, was cleared to stand in July despite an appeals court upholding an embezzlement conviction against her. “We still have a long way to go before the election,…
By Greta Ruffino & Euronews Published on 04/09/2026 – 21:47 GMT+2 Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is celebrating in Bari four years in government, marking the longest-serving government in the history of the Italian Republic. On 4 September, her government reached 1,413 days in office, becoming the longest-serving single administration in the history of the Italian Republic and surpassing the 1,412-day record set by Silvio Berlusconi’s second government. Speaking to supporters, Meloni presented the longevity record as evidence of the stability and cohesion of her right-wing coalition. “It is no coincidence that the three longest-serving governments in the history of the Italian Republic are…
“If certain countries or actors don’t want to participate, in a way, that’s their loss,” an Elysée official told reporters on Friday. “There are American companies participating, and there will be announcements. We are not seeing a trend where the U.S. is turning its back on Europe at this space summit,” said another Elysée official. Amazon’s satellite business Amazon Leo, for example, will be represented by one of its vice presidents, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to POLITICO. ‘Badly managed’ The summit’s outcome is expected include declarations on sharing of scientific space data, allocation of radio satellite frequencies —…
Following the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and the subsequent wave of emigration, one notable trend has been the rise of so-called “birth tourism”. Thousands of Russian women, unwilling to tie their children’s future to a country that started a war and concerned about Russia’s growing isolation, began looking for opportunities to give birth abroad. The main goal is not only to access quality healthcare, but also to obtain a second citizenship for the newborn, which can potentially open the way for the entire family to emigrate, study, work and travel freely around the world. Countries that apply…
Russian state news agency TASS reported that Witkoff and Kushner “intend to travel to Moscow and Kyiv on September 5-6.” The men have been key U.S. mediators in the stalled Ukraine peace talks. Witkoff made several trips to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2025 and early 2026 and met with Zelenskyy in the U.S., Germany and France. This will be their first trip to Kyiv. After Trump returned to office in early 2025, the U.S. launched an intensive push for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal focused on territorial compromises, security guarantees for Ukraine and postwar reconstruction. Washington…
Published on 04/09/2026 – 19:38 GMT+2 Spain recorded its joint-highest September temperature on Thursday, with 45.7C measured in the southwestern town of El Granado as exceptional heat grips the country, according to Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). The temperature matched the September record of 45.7C set in Montoro in 2016. Both towns are located in the southern region of Andalusia. Thursday’s reading was also the highest temperature recorded in Spain so far this year, as summer-like heat exceeding 40C has swept across large parts of the country’s south and west this week. AEMET also said on Thursday that the country…