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By Anil Can Tuncer & Euronews Published on 22/12/2025 – 15:53 GMT+1 Turkish lawmakers exchanged punches during a heated debate over the 2026 budget proposal on Sunday, though both the budget and a 2024 financial accounts bill were ultimately approved. The fight broke out after ruling AK Party MP Mustafa Varank made remarks targeting opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Özgür Özel during budget discussions in the Grand National Assembly. After Varank slammed Özel over images taken at the grave of former Tunceli MP Kamer Genç, CHP Group Deputy Chairman Gökhan Günaydın responded from the podium, accusing the AK Party of deliberately creating…
Visitors to Rome’s Trevi Fountain will soon have to pay a fee to get up close to the iconic monument. Starting on 1 February 2026, the Italian capital is introducing €2 tickets for tourists to descend the steps to the area around the water-filled basin – from where it is customary to toss a coin into the fountain. Viewing the aquatic masterpiece from the piazza above will remain free. Why is Rome introducing a fee to visit the Trevi Fountain? In 2024, authorities in the Eternal City floated the idea of a ticketing scheme at the Trevi Fountain as part…
Hundreds of people have joined an annual year-end clean at two major Buddhist temples in Kyoto, continuing a tradition that dates back more than 500 years. The ritual takes place every December 20 at Higashi-Honganji and Nishi-Honganji to prepare the sites for the New Year. At Higashi-Honganji in Shimogyo Ward, around 200 participants gathered, including worshippers from across Japan and local junior and senior high school students. They lined up inside the Goeido hall, an important cultural property, and struck tatami mats with bamboo sticks to loosen dust built up over the year.
By Euronews with AP Published on 22/12/2025 – 14:59 GMT+1 China will impose up to 42.7% of provisional tariffs on dairy products including milk and cheese imported from the European Union, its Commerce Ministry said Monday. The elevated duties, which take effect Tuesday, were based on preliminary results from an investigation opened by China’s Commerce Ministry as tensions between Beijing and Brussels flared. Beijing reviewed subsidies provided by EU countries for dairy and other farm products as a tit-for-tat measure after Brussels investigated Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles and later imposed tariffs as high as 45.3% on China-made EVs. EU subsidies undercut Chinese…
By Euronews Published on 22/12/2025 – 14:36 GMT+1 The NBA and FIBA announced Monday that they will begin contacting European basketball teams and club owners next month to gauge interest in participating in their proposed continental competition. The planned league will include guaranteed spots for certain teams and an annual qualification system via FIBA’s Basketball Champions League or a postseason tournament, organisers said. All clubs competing in FIBA-sanctioned European leagues would be eligible to qualify. FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis said the competition format honours European sporting traditions by providing every ambitious club on the continent a legitimate route to the…
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The number 79,432 has won the top prize in Spain’s Christmas Lottery Extraordinary Draw, bringing four million euros per series and 400,000 euros for each winning ticket. The draw, a fixture of the Spanish calendar, once again drew national attention as the results were announced. Winning tickets were sold in several locations, including La Bañeza, Villablino and Pola de Gordón in the province of León, as well as in Madrid. Celebrations broke out in the towns where the number was sold, a familiar scene each December.
By Euronews Published on 22/12/2025 – 13:15 GMT+1 Denmark expects all nations, including the United States, to respect its territorial sovereignty after US President Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to bring Greenland under Washington’s control, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on Monday. Rasmussen said in a statement that while the appointment “confirms the continued American interest in Greenland,” Denmark insists “everyone — including the US — must show respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.” Danish broadcasters TV2 and DR reported that Rasmussen later said he would summon the US ambassador in Copenhagen, Kenneth Howery, for…
Published on 22/12/2025 – 12:42 GMT+1 Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple, Apple Distribution International and Apple Italia €98 million for exploiting its “position of absolute dominance” through the App Store, accusing the company of unfairly burdening app developers with its tracking rules. Regulators said Apple abused its dominance in the iOS app distribution market by imposing App Tracking Transparency rules that unfairly burden third-party developers. The authority found that Apple forced developers to seek duplicate user consent for advertising data — going beyond what privacy law requires — undermining ad-based business models without delivering proportionate privacy benefits. This duplication,…
2025 started and ends with the losses of two cinematic titans – David Lynch and Rob Reiner – and the intervening months brought the threatening advancement of AI (with still no restrictions or guardrails for everyone’s favourite technology); protests against genocides; Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos brazenly claiming that cinemagoing is “an outdated concept”; and news of looming corporate monopolies that endanger the cinemagoing experience and the way we experience films. Put all of this in the context of escalating fascistic nonsense, ongoing wars, and the everyday horrors of the news, and safe to say that it’s been tough not to…