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“This is a clear example of what the underfunding of public services and precariousness mean when critical moments arrive,” Bergerot wrote on X, pointing out firefighters were asking for “basic materials like the vehicles to reach the areas that are burning and firefighting gear with which to work safely.” Avoiding Mazón’s mistake Ayuso’s decision to seek national support to address the crisis contrasts sharply with that taken by another People’s Party leader a year and a half ago. After massive floods hit the Spanish region of Valencia in October 2024, center-right regional President Carlos Mazón declined to request Sánchez’s government…

Published on 26/07/2026 – 15:29 GMT+2 A US-Russian space crew touched back down on Earth on Sunday following an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev landed safely in their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft in Kazakhstan at around 3:27 pm local time, to the southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan. According to NASA, the crew had spent the last 241 days in space, orbiting the Earth 3,856 times and travelling more than 102 million miles as they carried out scientific investigations aimed at helping “improve life on Earth”…

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Ballout, a 21-year-old German of Lebanese descent. Dobrindt said authorities are searching not only in the German capital, “but also at train stations, airports and Germany’s borders.” According to the minister, the suspect drove a van into the crowd on a path through Tiergarten park near the main Pride venue late Saturday before “allegedly” attacking people with a bladed weapon, “believed to be a machete,” seriously injuring several of them. Dobrindt confirmed details reported overnight that one woman was killed and 29 people injured, with some in serious or life-threatening condition. He said…

Over the course of the four-year war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on North Korea to supply artillery shells and missiles. Bringing in North Korean troops is raising concerns about Moscow transferring its own military know-how to the regime of Kim Yong Un in Pyongyang. “Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience in using them,” Zelenskyy said. “All of this is a threat to everyone in Asia who is within range of North Korean missiles. We will counter this,” he said.

Welcome back. Of course, let me start with the most important news of the week: Spain won the World Cup. Surprised? Well, you shouldn’t be, because bad punditry aside (and there was plenty of it) it was the logical conclusion. Football is a team sport, and that’s something the Spanish have mastered, because it’s a system, a school of thought, that defines the game, not a star player. The coach can swap midfielders, you won’t notice it on the pitch because the structure remains: dominate passes, own the ball and ultimately score. There was something of poetic justice to it…

A Romanian fighter jet on Sunday shot down a third drone that had entered its national air space in as many days, prompting President Nicușor Dan to blame Moscow for the “inadmissible and intolerable” incursions. Sunday’s incident marked the latest escalation for the NATO member. The series of incursions comes as Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube region have increasingly spilled over the border. “It is inadmissible and intolerable for the Russian Federation to continue violating Romania’s airspace, which is, at the same time, NATO airspace and European Union airspace,” Dan said on Sunday.

Published on 26/07/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 Spain’s prime minister has thanked the media for their work in communicating accurate information and the public for their exemplary behaviour during these wildfires. Sánchez added that people needed to “exercise extreme caution”. Sánchez said there were still “difficult hours of work ahead”, although he confirmed that the work carried out overnight had been very positive. The president of the Castile and León region, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, described the cooperation between institutions as effective: “All the different tiers of government have been working together.” Here is a summary of the situation regarding the wildfires…

Mount Olympus has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The mythical Greek mountain was unanimously recognised as a natural and cultural asset of outstanding universal value to humanity during the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee, which has been meeting since 19 July in the city of Busan in South Korea. The inclusion of Olympus on the List “represents one of the most important international distinctions in the field of protecting cultural and natural heritage, as it recognises the outstanding universal value of the wider Olympus area, placing it among the most emblematic monuments,” according to a joint…

Since then, the Air Force has offered up unused land on five installations for private companies to build data centers. The Army has already entered into two conditional agreements with private companies to build “commercial hyperscaled data centers” on its installations, the branch said in a news release. The investment firm Carlyle Group will build a data facility on 1,384 acres on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, by 2027. Data center developer CyrusOne will build a facility on 1,201 acres on Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground by 2029, according to an Army fact sheet. The Army has stated that the projects will come at…

Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least eight people and injured dozens more over the last 24 hours. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and nine were wounded in a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv. “All the necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site,” Zelenskyy said, adding that residential buildings had been hit. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two women aged 35 and 74 were killed after Russia struck three districts in the area with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs on Saturday, per local authorities. One person died and 12…