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Published on 07/09/2026 – 10:09 GMT+2 Dolly Parton’s sister has hit out after her family has been subjected to a “tremendous amount of AI and endless garbage” following the country icon’s death. While acknowledging the “genuine” support shared, Stella Parton has expressed that her and her family have experienced “incredible pressure and insensitivity from strangers”. “Firstly let me say, thank you to the ones of you who have shown ‘genuine’ support and love during this time of our family bereavement,” she wrote on Instagram. “We will be okay in time but each of us will grieve in our own peronal…
Saxony-Anhalt’s incumbent premier Sven Schulze, from the CDU, struck a more sober note on Sunday night. “Some say this is a dark day for Saxony-Anhalt. I say: That’s democracy,” he told ARD. “The people went to the polls today.” The rout piles pressure on Merz, who once vowed to cut the AfD in half but has been chancellor while the far-right party has boomed in the polls. Social Democratic Party co-leader Lars Klingbeil called the vote a “signal to Berlin” and said the result should prompt the federal government to reflect on its policies. Co-leader Bärbel Bas said the result…
A video impersonating Euronews has circulated online with the false allegation that a Ukrainian soldier shot and killed three NATO servicemen during a military exercise in Latvia. The report claims that a soldier opened fire during NATO’s Baltic Trust 2026 exercise, an event that did occur, killing three servicemen before taking his own life. The shooting did not happen, and the video was not produced or published by Euronews. The clip, which garnered more than 2 million views, was shared on X on 14 August and uses Euronews’ name and visual style to make the invented story appear to come…
Spectators lined the streets of Zundert in the Netherlands on Sunday as giant floats covered in dahlias rolled through the town during the annual Flower Parade. Volunteers spent months building the displays, attaching hundreds of thousands of blooms by hand. The parade brings together 20 neighbourhood associations, which compete for the top prize with elaborate floats inspired by themes ranging from war and commedia dell’arte to the film ‘Interstellar’. Footage from the preparations shows volunteers working on the structures and carefully fixing individual dahlias in place. The event, known locally as the Corso, has been held in Zundert since 1936.…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. The state of the German economy is serious, very serious. Over the past eight years, we’ve lost approximately 15 percent of our industrial production. Month after month, Germany loses around 15,000 industrial jobs. And the industrial base that underpins our prosperity is starting to erode. Private net investment has fallen to almost zero. On balance, companies are doing nothing more than replacing what wears out. High costs are paralyzing companies’ willingness to invest. Even the special depreciation…
Susan Sarandon has shared that her support for Palestine has led to her losing film roles and that parts of the film industry continue to shun her over her activism. The 79-year-old American actress spoke at the Venice Film Festival about how her stance on Israel’s actions in Gaza has affected her work: “In terms of the power structure, I’ve still had movies taken away recently because there are agencies that are telling people not to hire me still.” The Oscar-winning actress noted that despite losing out on film roles she feels “the narrative has completely changed in terms of…
Can the chancellor deliver growth without breaking his own self-imposed fiscal rules? John Healey will set out his vision for the economy this morning, but with pressure mounting on the public finances, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy ask whether he is preparing to stretch the rules to make it happen. Amid an increasingly turbulent economic backdrop, the duo examine the warning lights beginning to flash – from the rising cost of borrowing to the instability of mortgage rates – and what it could mean for households and the government’s room for manoeuvre. Plus, as the AfD clinch victory in a…
No alternative: With voters turning out in droves, preliminary end results from Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt ballot show the AfD securing 43.8% of the vote, representing 39 seats of the 83-member state parliament. Although this is short of an outright majority, with the official results expected Monday night, it is already being interpreted as a major loss for Merz’ centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party. This is a party that has led the region of Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years, but only scraped through 17.2% of the votes. Nothing short of a disaster: AfD co-chair Alice Weidel told CNN she expects…
Nepal held a day of mourning on Monday to remember the victims of the devastating 26 August floods, with government offices lowering flags and family members carrying out mourning rituals. Monday is the 13th day since the flooding that has killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left some 5,000 missing including foreigners, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency. In Hindu-majority Nepal, mourning periods last 13 days and close family members stay at home and relatives visit to pay respect. On the 13th day, rituals are held to pray for the departed souls. Several people whose family…
Published on 07/09/2026 – 8:14 GMT+2 Turkey has raised its year-end inflation forecast to 28.4%, Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Sunday when he unveiled the country’s medium-term economic programme for 2027-2029. “We expect inflation to start declining again in the fourth quarter of 2026 and to reach 28.4% by the end of the year,” Yilmaz said in a televised address. The new forecast is significantly higher than previous projections. In last year’s medium-term programme covering 2026-2028, the government had forecast year-end inflation at 16%. Under the new programme, inflation is projected to fall to 21% in 2027, 13.5% in…