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Ribera, in the EU’s strongest condemnation of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday told students at Sciences Po that “the genocide in Gaza exposes Europe’s failure to act and speak with one voice.” Ribera, just like her home country Spain, has been one of the staunchest critics of Israel’s war on Gaza, but Thursday’s speech marked the first time she explicitly described the situation as genocide. In an interview with POLITICO last month, Ribera said that the starvation, displacement and killing in Gaza “looks very much” like genocide, calling on the EU to consider suspending its Association Agreement…
Large protests organised by hostage families are planned across Israel on Saturday to mark 700 days since Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. The gathering marking the attack, which killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostage, is set to take place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the southern city of Kiryat Gat. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which campaigns for the release of hostages captured and taken by Hamas into the Gaza Strip, posted on X that this weekend marks an “incomprehensible 700 days that our loved ones have been held in captivity.” Out of the…
Reform has painted Connolly as a political prisoner of Keir Starmer’s government, with Farage even flying to Washington this week to slam Britain’s online safety rules and likening the UK to North Korea on free speech. Cabinet ministers blasted Farage’s U.S. trip as a “Talk Britain Down” tour. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds called it “as anti-British as you can get. More in Common polling shows that while voters are split on whether Connolly’s sentence was too harsh or too lenient, 51 percent want politicians to distance themselves from her, including more than a quarter of Reform voters. “The transnational neoconservative…
By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 05/09/2025 – 8:14 GMT+2 Guillermo del Toro is auctioning off part of his vast horror and fantasy collection, after premiering his long-awaited Frankenstein at the Venice Film Festival to widespread acclaim. The Oscar-winning, Mexican-born director has partnered with Heritage Auctions for a three-part sale of items from his sprawling Bleak House archive, a pair of Santa Monica homes stuffed to the brim with thousands of ghoulish props, sketches, comics and curiosities. The first auction, featuring more than a hundred items, is set to kick off online on 26 September, with further lots due next year. Del…
Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party have often struggled to be taken seriously in SW1. Sascha speaks to the man himself – Polanski – who tells her he is a vegan, who doesn’t drive and wants to tell “similar stories as Nigel Farage” but his will be “the truth”. She speaks to Jonathon Porritt, a Green Party veteran and former chair, who says he isn’t “completely comfortable with eco-populism”. And Natalie Bennett, Green Party peer and former…
By Yaël Ossowski, EU Tech Loop Published on 05/09/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 This article first appeared in EU Tech Loop and has been published as part of a partnership with Euronews. Any opinions expressed do not reflect Euronews. On September 12, European Member States will have to finalise their positions on the proposed regulation to force client-side scanning of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in messaging apps, also known as Chat Control. While the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU has previously stated it will push for CSAM-scanning during its Presidency, the number of people and political groups articulating…
Gordon Repinski im Gespräch mit BMW-Chef Oliver Zipse. Im Zentrum: Der neue SUV iX3 und die „Neue Klasse“. BMWs frontaler Angriff auf Tesla und chinesische Hersteller wird am heutigen Freitag, 11 Uhr deutscher Zeit der Öffentlichkeit offiziell vorgestellt. Zipse erklärt die neue Designsprache „Licht statt Chrom“, das „Panoramic Display“ im Innenraum und warum auch der Sound einer sich öffnenden oder zuschlagenden Autotür mit entscheidet. Der CEO spricht über den harten Wettbewerb in China, seinen persönlichen Austausch mit Donald Trump über die US-Zölle und warum BMW trotz schwieriger Zeiten nicht in der Krise steckt.Es geht außerdem über die zurückliegenden Monate seiner…
Published on 05/09/2025 – 6:30 GMT+2 The EU delegation in Kyiv is ready to reopen for business after a few days which have seen staff working from home after the building was damaged during a Russian air strike, the EU Ambassador to Ukraine has told Euronews in an interview. “We are not leaving Kyiv”, Katarína Mathernová insisted adding that the premises was quickly being cleaned up to ‘open for business’ again. Mathernová said it was a huge shock for her and her staff that a blast wave could cause so much damage and that the whole of Europe should also…
Published on 05/09/2025 – 6:47 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump hosted a group of tech executives at the White House on Thursday for dinner, but one name was notably absent from the guest list, Tesla, SpaceX and X boss Elon Musk. Musk, once a close ally of Trump’s, and who was previously tasked with leading a new government agency designed to cutback on waste federal spending, did not appear to make the exclusive cut of senior tech leaders. The pair have not been on good standing since their highly public feud earlier this year over disagreements on Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 02/05/2025 – 22:27 GMT+2 Welcome to Tajikistan, and the Dushanbe Grand Slam, one of the most vibrant events on the World Judo Tour. The arena was truly packed to the rafters, requiring an outdoor display and additional space for the thousands of judo loving locals, showing again how Judo truly is the number 1 sport in Tajikistan. At -48kg, Anudari JAMSRAN took on Wenna ZHUANG. ZHUANG led the contest with a yuko, but with under one minute remaining JAMSRAN managed to score ippon and claim her first gold medal on the World Judo Tour. An amazing achievement…