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A commemoration for former Bosnian Serb army commander and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić opened on Saturday at the House of the Serbian Army in Belgrade as Serbia faces mounting European pressure over what Brussels has described as his glorification — an accusation Serbia rejects. Mladić died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia. His remains were flown to Serbia from The Hague on a government plane on Thursday. Serbian army soldiers carried the coffin with Mladić’s body wrapped in the national flag from the plane…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 12:48 GMT+2 Dozens of masked men dressed in all black descended on the Port of Dover on Saturday morning in what police have described as a “protest.” Port authorities said there was an “ongoing public order incident” happening across the town, which is a key passenger hub for ferry services between the UK and mainland Europe. “This is affecting all routes in and out the port and town,” the Port of Dover said in a statement. P&O Ferries, which operates a ferry from Dover to Calais, later said that access to the port had been “partially…
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“The Future is Now” is the motto of this year’s IFA. Chinese home appliance and consumer electronics group Haier has brought its own take on that theme to Berlin, under the slogan “Home of Intelligent Possibilities”. The company is using IFA 2026 to lay out its vision of intelligent living — a home where connected appliances and AI do not just assist, but anticipate. Euronews spoke to Haier Europe CEO Neil Tunstall about what comes after the smart home, and how soon some of these ideas could become reality. Beyond the smart home The idea is to go one step…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.” The sentence dates from 1785 (Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, AA IV, 429). It marks the boundary of every free state’s authority: a person may be held to account for his own actions. But the state may not turn him…
By Euronews Persian Published on 05/09/2026 – 11:39 GMT+2•Updated 11:43 Iranian media outlets reported that an Iranian oil tanker was struck by US forces near Kharg Island on Saturday morning, close to the Strait of Hormuz. Multiple explosions were heard and the tanker is being evacuated, with no casualties reported so far, according to the same initial reports. There has as yet been no comment from US or Iranian officials. It comes a day after Tehran reportedly launched anti-ship missiles against vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian media did not provide details as to the targets nor any damage inflicted…
But it distorts size, making landmasses appear larger the further they are from the Equator. As a result, Africa looks far smaller than it really is compared with countries in the Northern Hemisphere. “A fair map does not change the geography of the world,” said Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign minister and lead negotiator on behalf of the African group, ahead of the U.N. vote. The non-binding resolution stated that “correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation,” and calls on countries to promote the so-called Equal Earth projection, including at schools. “This decision…
Supporters queue in lines stretching dozens of metres to get a photo with him: AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund. The 35-year-old is standing for the party in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt is classified by the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a department of the CDU-led interior ministry, as a confirmed far-right extremist organisation. Siegmund is the young shooting star of the AfD in the east. “I finally want to make policy for our own country again,” Siegmund tells Euronews. He wants to reorganise migration. Money should be freed up that is “currently…
Published on 05/09/2026 – 11:04 GMT+2 Three people were killed in Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon overnight, according to the Lebanese health ministry. One person was killed and 15 were injured following a strike on the town of Ramadiyah in the southern Tyre district, the ministry said, adding that two others were killed in the Nabatieh region. Strikes hit five locations across Nabatieh, Tyre and the eastern region of Bekaa in total, per the ministry. In a statement on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon “in response to Hezbollah’s…
Sonia Devillers, Philippe Jaenada, Amélie Nothomb, Philippe Besson, Ananda Devi. They all have one thing in common: they will be part of the 2026 literary season. Between now and October, some 461 novels, including 344 French titles, will reach bookshops. That is a slight drop compared with the previous year, when 484 books were published. For publishers and booksellers, this period is unmissable, all the more so at a time when reading is playing a smaller and smaller role in our daily lives. “The share of French people who spontaneously describe themselves as readers is falling across all categories, particularly…