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Bulgaria holds its eight parliamentary elections in five years on Sunday, with former president Rumen Radev’s new party leading polls in a vote many hope will end now-chronic political instability. Radev, a former air force general who resigned as president in January, formed his Progressive Bulgaria coalition after the resignation of the government in December. His party leads with 33% support according to the latest polls, positioning him as a key power broker in what is expected to be another fragmented parliament. The election follows five years of near-permanent crisis in which no government has survived a full term. Instead,…
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Published on 17/04/2026 – 11:56 GMT+2 Last year, we suggested (proved?) that the Trump administration may be culturally illiterate – especially when it comes to cinema. Now, Pete Hegseth has added another stone to that dubious edifice. The US Secretary of War, a Christian nationalist who has been referencing the Bible and Jesus Christ in several of his gung-ho / fire-and-brimstone addresses, quoted a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino’s beloved classic Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon. No, we’re not making this up. Hegseth mistakenly presented the made-up scripture as genuine Bible verse – seemingly trying…
Mandelson became U.S. ambassador in February 2025 before being sacked in September over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Guardian first reported Thursday afternoon Mandelson did not pass his security vetting clearance, but that the Foreign Office overruled the decision. Jones told the BBC on Friday morning that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ignored the advice of United Kingdom Security Vetting, the government’s screening agency. “I find this whole situation astonishing,” Jones said in his BBC remarks, adding that he suspended the Foreign Office’s right to ignore security vetting going forward last night. “That is a failure…
An online claim suggesting that Apple Maps, the web mapping service developed by Apple, has removed village names in southern Lebanon has gone viral. Some posts making the claims have racked up millions of views, triggered explainer videos and sparked a heated debate on whether Apple has intentionally altered its maps to remove the names. Euronews’ fact-checking team, The Cube, found that one of the posts was shared by a pro-Iranian X account based in South Asia, which has repeatedly spread misleading claims about Iran’s military power in the war. The allegations come amid heightened regional tensions, with Israel carrying…
Published on 17/04/2026 – 9:11 GMT+2•Updated 9:23 Even if the Middle East conflict were to end today, its ripple effects risk creating the conditions for further conflicts to emerge, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo has told Euronews’ morning show, Europe Today. “The first measure [that must be taken] is to stop the war or at least come to some type of normalisation of the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz,” the former Belgian Prime Minister said. He cautioned that, even if the war ceased today, economic interventions are needed to avoid a situation where…
The prestigious Sony World Photography Awards have unveiled their 2026 winners, whittling down more than 430,000 submissions from over 200 countries and territories. This year’s top honour – Photographer of the Year – was awarded to Citlali Fabián for her deeply moving series Bilha, Stories of my Sisters, a project exploring identity, community and Indigenous women’s experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico. Fabián, who is from the Yalalteca Indigenous community and currently based in London, uses a blend of portraiture and digital illustration to highlight the achievements and lived experiences of women across multiple fields – from law to ecology. Reacting to…
Published on 17/04/2026 – 11:25 GMT+2 A former Philippine congressman who fled the country and had his passport cancelled after being charged in a corruption scandal over flood control projects has been detained in the Czech Republic, President Ferdinand Marcos said on Friday. The alleged crime, believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars, sparked protests and arrests across the storm-battered archipelago, which was hit by hundreds of floods last year alone according to United Nations data. Elizaldy Co was charged alongside a number of public works officials and construction firm owners in November, accused of violating the country’s anti-graft…
Kazakhstan and Türkiye are moving towards a more practical model of economic cooperation, focusing on diversifying trade and launching joint industrial projects, Kazakh prime minister Olzhas Bektenov said during the 14th Intergovernmental Commission held in Astana, while Turkish vice president Cevdet Yılmaz said the two countries are setting a goal of $15 billion in trade volume. Kazakhstan intends to shift its exports away from raw materials towards higher value-added goods in partnership with Turkish businesses, while both countries have set a target to increase bilateral trade. “On the instructions of president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the government is carrying out systemic work…
It has been almost a week since the four Artemis II astronauts completed their historic voyage around the Moon, and the crew said they have yet to come back to Earth mentally in their first press conference since their return. The three Americans and one Canadian said their lunar flyby puts NASA in a much better position for a Moon landing by a crew in two years and an eventual Moon base. They spoke from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, their home base. “This mission taught me that the unknown is way scarier than the known,” said astronaut Christina…