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By Wessam Al Jurdi & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 18:02 GMT+2 The Muslim World League has launched an initiative aimed at countering extremist discourse in West Africa, with Muslim and Christian leaders from across the region signing a series of cooperation agreements at an international conference in Abuja. The League unveiled the initiative at a conference titled “Diversity and Social Peace: A Partnership for a Promising Future,” held under the patronage of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The gathering brought together Muslim and Christian religious leaders alongside government officials and civil society representatives. Delegates adopted the Abuja Declaration by consensus, setting out…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2•Updated 13:14 The board of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, one of Italy’s oldest banks, on Friday formally set out the financial terms of two voluntary public exchange offers for all the shares in Banco BPM and Banca Generali. The combined proposal is worth around €34 billion and stands as a direct alternative to the takeover bid or Opas — a public offer combining cash and shares — launched by Intesa Sanpaolo for the same Siena-based bank. Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s own offers are structured as Ops or share-only, with no cash component.…
FIFA has banned three Argentina players, including a 10-match suspension for midfielder Leandro Paredes, for striking Spain opponents moments after losing the World Cup final. The ban for Paredes — who grabbed Spain’s Eric Garcia by the throat and pushed Gavi to the ground — ranks alongside the FIFA sanctions for Uruguay forward Luis Suarez in 2014 as among the most severe in World Cup history. Argentina defender Nahuel Molina was handed a seven-game ban while Thiago Almada was given a one-game suspension. FIFA imposed fines of €76,000 on Paredes and Molina, and €25,000 for Almada. The ban for Paredes…
By Egle Markeviciute, EU Tech Loop via Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 7:32 GMT+2•Updated 16:03 German non-profit group HateAid has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley and several eyewear retailers with Germany’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime, seeking a ban on the sale of Meta’s AI glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer. The group argues the glasses violate Germany’s Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act. HateAid says the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are “indistinguishable” from ordinary glasses, and with 41 million people wearing glasses in Germany alone, this can create “image-based digital violence” and “disguise a particularly inconspicuous…
Pompeii did not end in AD 79.. For centuries, while the Roman city remained buried beneath the debris of Vesuvius’ eruption, people went on living among those ruins and kept its memory alive. This surprising story is now being told thanks to a number of new finds in the Insula Meridionalis, in the southern area of ancient Pompeii. Materials and ceramic artefacts dating from the 15th and 16th centuries have in fact provided fresh evidence of human presence on the site many centuries before the start of the Bourbon excavations, launched in 1748. The discovery challenges the most common image…
Warsaw escalated the diplomatic pressure Thursday night by summoning Israel’s ambassador. Polish aid worker Damian Soból was among the seven people killed in the strike. Poland’s foreign ministry said in a post on X that it “does not accept the perpetrators’ evasion of legal and moral responsibility” and stressed that prosecutors in Przemyśl are still looking into the matter. Warsaw also demanded Israel provide “all necessary clarifications and materials” requested by Polish investigators. Israeli drones struck the World Central Kitchen convoy as it delivered food to civilians in Gaza, killing three Britons, an Australian, Soból, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and…
Nearly two years after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, the Syrians who rushed to go back home are discovering that what they left behind is no longer what they remember — and that coming home to a country fresh out of war comes with its own challenges. “I regret coming back,” Samer told Euronews. “In Turkey I was making about $1,000. Today my income doesn’t surpass $250-300.” Samer* returned from Turkey after the fall of al-Assad’s regime. His colleague Mustafa returned from Egypt at the same time. Working side by side in the same Damascus barbershop, they have reached opposite conclusions about…
Portugal’s social security system looks healthy on paper. A new report says that is an illusion, and pensions are set to shrink in the years ahead. Those are two of the central warnings in “Reforming Pensions in Portugal: For a Sustainable and Fair System — A Contract Between Generations”, a report drawn up by a working group led by economist and professor Jorge Bravo. The report puts the real social security deficit at almost €1.94 billion in 2025, once the accounts of the Caixa Geral de Aposentações, the public body responsible for civil servants’ pensions, are combined with the general…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 16:26 GMT+2 Starting Monday, tens of millions of ChatGPT users across Europe will see adverts inside their conversations with the chatbot for the first time, as OpenAI rolls out its recently launched advertising programme to its largest market yet. The company is extending ChatGPT Ads to 31 European countries from 24 August, and the rollout brings the total up to 40 markets. OpenAI began testing ads in the US in February, then extended the programme through the year to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea. Ads will only show up…