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Published on 29/07/2025 – 16:24 GMT+2 Novo Nordisk shares fell by over 20% on Tuesday after the firm slashed its full-year guidance, blaming weaker US sales expectations for its obesity drug Wegovy and Ozempic diabetes treatment. In the wake of the sell-off, the pharma giant said long-time employee Maziar Mike Doustdar would take over as president and CEO, replacing Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen — who unexpectedly stepped down in May. Doustdar, the first non-Dane to lead the company, will take over on 7 August. Novo cut its financial guidance for the year on Tuesday, expecting yearly sales to grow by 8%…
The Brussels metro was partially closed Tuesday afternoon as police investigate a bomb threat in the city center. “There are three stations closed — De Brouckere, Bourse, Annessens — because of an ongoing police search, the alert started around 3:35 p.m. and the metro service is not interrupted, but the trains are not stopping at the said stations,” a spokesperson from metro operator STIB said. “We can currently confirm that we have evacuated the area around the Palace cinema and the nearby metro stations due to a bomb threat and are searching,” said police spokesperson Linda Camarero-Verde, according to public…
By Euronews Published on 29/07/2025 – 16:13 GMT+2 •Updated 17:03 More than 1,300 firefighters were deployed to battle three major forest fires in the areas of Arouca, Ponte da Barca and Penamacor, Portuguese authorities said Tuesday. At least 900 officers have been sent to fight the strongest blazes in Ponte da Barca and Arouca, where fires have been burning since Monday afternoon. Another 400 have been deployed in Penamacor. In Arouca, where fires are still active, authorities evacuated the village of Fornos de Carvão in the early hours of Tuesday morning after flames threatened to tear through residential buildings. The Paiva…
By Una Hajdari with AP Published on 29/07/2025 – 16:36 GMT+2 •Updated 16:40 With a crucial 12 August deadline looming, US and Chinese trade officials returned to the table in Stockholm on Tuesday to attempt to break the deadlock over tariffs between the world’s two largest economies. US President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a tough stance on what it deems to be a massive trade imbalance with China, slapping the Asian economic giant with some of the steepest tariffs in every round of import tax hikes. Progress in Stockholm could lay the groundwork for a high-level meeting between Trump and Chinese President…
By Euronews Published on 29/07/2025 – 15:34 GMT+2 A helicopter belonging to the German military crashed into the Mulde River in Saxony on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Air Force said. There are no reports yet about possible deaths or injuries, the Leipzig District Fire Brigade said. The helicopter was reportedly on a training flight and an investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing. According to air traffic control, the helicopter disappeared from radar between 10:00-10:30 am, the local fire brigade said. Paddlers in the river informed police around 11:30 am that they had seen helicopter parts in the…
“All I can tell you is that we’ve avoided the worst case, we’ve landed on 15 percent, and we will make it work technically with the minimum of costs and the minimum damage for our exporters,” Gill added. Initially, the White House and the European Commission aimed to publish a joint statement by Aug. 1. Whether that will happen, however, is now uncertain, with many details still to be ironed out. Gill said he couldn’t say “precisely when that joint statement will be ready, but it should be soon.” Moreover, the White House and the European Commission have published seperate…
Published on 29/07/2025 – 13:56 GMT+2 The first trailer for James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure Avatar: Fire And Ash – the third instalment in the Avatar franchise – has been released… And fans aren’t impressed. The film, which is scheduled to hit theaters on 19 December, comes three years after Avatar: The Way of Water. It sees Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang and Kate Winslet return to the series, and introduces a new group called the Ash People – led by Varang, played by Oona Chaplin. “Your goddess has no dominion here,” Varang ominously declares at the end of…
On Tuesday, she appeared to confirm on X she was running to represent “the region I have served for 15 years.” Dati, a fiery, outspoken figure, has long been a powerful politician in the district, which spans the length of the Seine from the Eiffel Tower to just beyond the Latin Quarter. She serves as local mayor of the Paris 7th arrondissement, where the Eiffel Tower is located. She was reportedly infuriated by Barnier’s decision to run for the seat on her home turf. “I’ve never been a bit player, or a pushover,” she said in an interview on French…
A group of 40 cross-party MEPs are pressing on the European Union to suspend its trade deal with Israel and impose sanctions on the Netanyahu-led government, as an UN-backed body warns of signs of famine and widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip. In a joint statement seen exclusively by Euronews, the lawmakers call on the EU to hold the Israeli government accountable for actions that “blatantly breach the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law.” The statement also urges Hamas to immediately release Israeli hostages still held captive in Gaza after they were kidnapped from Israel during October 7 2023 attacks.…
Published on 29/07/2025 – 13:03 GMT+2 Spain’s antitrust watchdog is expanding an investigation into Apple over concerns that the tech giant is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour. Spain’s National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) launched the investigation in July 2024, accusing Apple of “imposing unfair commercial conditions” on the developers of mobile applications that are sold in its App Store. Apple could be “abusing its dominant market position,” the regulators said. On Tuesday, the CNMC said it will broaden the probe due to “new evidence” that the tech giant requires developers to follow a pricing schedule set by Apple in…