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By Euronews Culture with AP Published on 22/05/2025 – 12:07 GMT+2A collection of artifacts linked with President Abraham Lincoln, including the blood-stained leather gloves he worn the night of his assassination, have been sold at an auction in the United States for $7.9 million (€6.9 million).A total of 144 items up for sale to pay off the remainder of a two decade old $8 million (€7 million) debt that the Lincoln Presidential Foundation used to buy a one-of-a-kind cluster of Lincoln artifacts from a California collector. The gloves proved to be the most popular item, fetching $1.52 million (€1.35 million) including the…

While confirming Germany’s continued military support for Ukraine, Merz said his government was actively pushing for a diplomatic solution. “We are really not missing any conceivable opportunity to reach a diplomatic solution here,” he said. “But we know we cannot achieve it in a short space of time.” His remarks come after the latest round of indirect talks between Kyiv and Moscow — brokered with Turkish involvement — produced limited progress, including a recent prisoner exchange. Ukrainian officials have pushed for an immediate truce, while Russia has laid down conditions that Kyiv has rejected as unacceptable. Merz also pointed to…

International Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric spoke to Euronews at the European Humanitarian Forum 2025 about intensifying global conflict, warning of declining respect for humanitarian law and rising concerns over shrinking budgets.

In Slovenia, the event took place in 17 towns and cities, with 14 locations participating in Serbia and another three in Slovakia.At noon in the Serbian city of Niš, 1,100 students wearing red and blue shirts gathered in the main square to perform the quadrille to Strauss’s The Bat, followed by a lively circle dance.The tradition began with Slovenian students in 2002 and has steadily spread across Europe since 2005.Speaking in Ljubljana’s Congress Square, Mayor Zoran Janković encouraged students to value their school friendships, describing them as lifelong connections worth preserving.

Eurozone private sector contracted in May, with Composite PMI falling to 49.5. Services saw their sharpest drop in 16 months, while manufacturing stabilised. Business confidence hit a 19-month low, reinforcing expectations for further ECB rate cuts.

US content distributor King Features says it has fired a writer who used artificial intelligence to produce a story on summer reading suggestions that contained books that didn’t exist.The list appeared in “Heat Index: Your Guide to the Best of Summer,” a special section distributed in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer last week.More than half of the books listed were fake, according to the piece’s author, Marco Buscaglia, who admitted to using AI for help in his research but didn’t double-check what it produced.“A really stupid error on my part,” Buscaglia wrote on his Facebook page. “I’m not…

“Several people in the Parliament saw it happening; it was related to Palestine-Israel tensions, because the MEP is very pro-Israel,” said a Parliament official, who was granted anonymity to speak freely. The atmosphere in the Parliament on Wednesday was tense as lawmakers debated Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip during a plenary session. A spokesperson for the Parliament said the violent incident, which was caught on surveillance cameras, was “being investigated as a matter of priority,” and “the initial assessment confirms the MEP’s version of events.” The spokesperson added that the Parliament was providing assistance to Teodorescu, whose office…

Romania’s constitutional court threw out defeated far-right candidate George Simion’s challenge to the result of Sunday’s presidential election. Simion announced Tuesday he would contest the outcome, claiming foreign interference by France and Moldova and voter fraud had influenced the contest, without providing evidence. But his request to annul the result was unanimously rejected, the court said on Thursday, paving the way for the inauguration of winner, centrist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan.

Goose said in his order, aimed the U.K. Foreign Office, and seen by the Press Association news agency: “The defendant shall take no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government or bind itself as to the particular terms of any such transfer.” It added: “The defendant shall in particular not dispose of the territory in whole or in part. “The defendant is to maintain the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom over the British Indian Ocean Territory until further…

With rural discontent growing, Marine Le Pen’s far-right party sees an opportunity ahead of the 2027 presidential election. By MARION SOLLETYin AUCH, France Photo-illustration by Andrei Cojocaru for POLITICO This article is also available in: French Standing on the stage, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne looked down solemnly at his protégé, pointing his arm at him for all the farmers and their families to see. “I make you general of the army of the serfs,” the 65-year-old leader said in a makeshift ceremony organized to honor regional leader Lionel Candelon, who stood before him in a large concrete hall on the outskirts of Auch,…