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The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off on Thursday evening with co-hosts Mexico taking on South Africa in the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, launching a sprawling tournament of 48 teams that will last nearly six weeks. The extravaganza hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada is the biggest World Cup in history, stretching until the final in New Jersey on 19 July. It is projected to generate a record-breaking $13 billion (€11 billion) in total revenue. The official opening ceremony lit up the Estadio Azteca stadium before the kickoff with Colombian superstar Shakira and Nigerian singer Burna Boy…
By Euronews Culture Published on 11/06/2026 – 20:07 GMT+2 American clothes designer Ralph Lauren and the US Postal Service have unveiled a new set of stamps to honour the United States 250th birthday this year. The collection depicts various images of America and were taken from Ralph Lauren’s archive and from visuals that have inspired him. Many stamp collectors and fans dressed up in red, white and blue for the occasion at the James A. Farley Post Office in midtown, New York. The celebration was attended by several postal dignitaries as well as the Lauren family and US media personality Katie…
The French document, which POLITICO has confirmed the contents of, follows long-running criticism from national capitals and EU officials who complain that EU diplomacy is too slow-moving, institutionally dysfunctional and victim of an escalating turf war between the EEAS and the Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen. The paper was an internal document not approved by the French foreign minister or his aides and does not reflect an official French position, said an EU diplomat. It was first reported by the Financial Times and Reuters. It points to three options for reforming the EEAS, including bringing it entirely under…
Published on 11/06/2026 – 19:36 GMT+2 After two years of strong performance driven by a shift to a war economy, Russia’s economic situation is weakening, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told Euronews. And although the IMF raised its forecast for Russia’s 2026 growth in its April outlook from 0.8% to 1.1%, Georgieva told Euronews this did not reflect the full picture of the economic weakening. “The higher oil prices do give a breather to Russia,” Georgieva said, arguing the hike cannot offset the bigger hit to Russia’s economy. “They have depleted their buffers dramatically,” Georgieva said. The oil price windfall…
The technocratic government is “a front formula to exempt the Social Democratic Party from the responsibility it has for the situation it has reached,” party leader Ilie Bolojan said. The Social Democratic Party initiated the May no-confidence vote, teaming up with the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians. Now, Tomac faces a difficult path to form a government before the June 14 deadline. Romanian media report that Dan is considering re-forming the collapsed coalition if Tomac fails, but a political breakthrough looks far away. “Today, the stake is not who gives lessons to whom. The stake is whether we…
By Gavin Blackburn & Euronews Published on 11/06/2026 – 17:42 GMT+2•Updated 18:48 Three people, including two children, were killed on Thursday after a car crashed into a group on a school cycling trip, Dutch authorities said. Four children have been seriously injured and rushed to hospital, authorities in the southern province of Zeeland said. The accident happened near the village of Vogelwaarde, close to the Belgian border. “A passenger car collided with a group of 14 cycling children and two supervisors during their school camp,” authorities said in a statement. The age of the children is not immediately known. This is a developing…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has defended a decision to increase interest rates, saying it is “robust across three different scenarios”. The ECB announced today that it is raising rates by 0.25 percent for the first time in three years due to the ongoing war in the Middle East. It is the bank’s first rate hike since 2023, when it raised rates in response to surging energy prices caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “The war is generating inflation pressures, and the decision to raise rates is robust across a range of scenarios mapping out how the…
Gabriel Attal a profité de l’arrivée à l’Assemblée d’une proposition de loi sur le secteur de l’intelligence artificielle pour se faire le relais des mastodontes de la tech. Anthony Lattier discute dans Playbook Paris de l’irruption de l’IA dans la campagne présidentielle avec Océane Herrero, journaliste au service Tech de POLITICO.
Published on 11/06/2026 – 17:25 GMT+2 German MEP Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, has warned that the long-running Airbus-Boeing dispute could jeopardise the EU-US trade agreement struck last summer if transatlantic tensions flare again in the coming weeks. The implementation of the Turnberry Agreement, clinched in July 2025 by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, is entering its final stretch, with EU lawmakers expected to approve it in a vote next Tuesday. However, the five-year truce between US aerospace giant Boeing and its European rival Airbus over mutual…
Published on 11/06/2026 – 15:25 GMT+2•Updated 16:24 Scientists have uncovered a vast underwater whale graveyard in one of the most remote parts of the world’s oceans, revealing thriving communities of marine life feeding on the remains of the mammals that died millions of years ago. The site, located seven kilometres beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean, is believed to be the deepest, oldest and largest whale graveyard ever discovered. Researchers identified five whale carcass sites and numerous fossils during a series of deep-sea submersible expeditions in 2023. Among the remains were skulls belonging to beaked and baleen whales, with…