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Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes and stretched national firefighting services to their limits. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart look at how the EU is helping through its Civil Protection Mechanism and rescEU emergency reserve — and why Brussels says that even dozens more firefighting planes would not be enough without much greater investment in prevention. Then, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heads to Washington amid signs that U.S. President Donald Trump and parts of the MAGA movement may be warming towards Kyiv. But will…

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The views of Simion, a former football hooligan who relishes a fight with the establishment, matter: His party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), has a huge lead in opinion polls and may soon get a chance to put its case to voters if a snap election is called. He savaged the EU’s green deal, economic and defense policies, and said Romania did not want to return to a time when larger states dominated it. “We have been occupied by these kind of dictators like we have in Russia and we had in U.S.S.R., and dictatorial tendencies from…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:01 GMT+2 A British funeral director faced a possible prison sentence on Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left “stored on racks” and uncremated, while relatives were given other people’s ashes, prompting calls for tighter regulation of the funeral industry. After receiving a tip-off, police searched the premises of Robert Bush’s funeral home and found 31 bodies in cold storage that should have been cremated months earlier, including a stillborn baby whose body had been there for nearly two years. They also found more than 100 sets of ashes. “There were bodies stored on the…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:54 GMT+2 Ukraine fired hundreds of drones towards Russia on Monday, targeting export and energy facilities as it continues its campaign to put pressure on Russia’s war capabilities. “Last night, our long-range sanctions were effective in the Rostov region. An export terminal approximately 250 kilometres from the front line was hit,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on Facebook. “Deep strikes also targeted oil facilities in the Yaroslavl region and the Udmurt Republic, which is 1,300 kilometres from Ukraine’s state border,” he added. Russian officials said five people were killed in the strikes on…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 21:13 GMT+2 Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist who drew both fascination and controversy with his “Body Worlds” exhibitions of preserved human bodies, has died aged 81. His family and the Institute for Plastination, which he founded, said he died on Friday. They provided no further details in a statement released on Monday. Von Hagens announced in 2010 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Von Hagens blurred the lines between science, entertainment and commerce with his travelling exhibitions, as well as headline-grabbing events such as public autopsies. At the heart of his work was…

Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu said the aircraft were “Shahed-type drones” used by Russia. They likely crossed into Romanian airspace during Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on the Black Sea, near Romania’s southeastern border. The country’s president, Nicușor Dan, described the repeated incursions as “inadmissible and intolerable,” saying they violated Romania’s sovereignty as well as NATO and EU airspace. Incursions by Russian drones into European airspace have become common during the past year as Moscow’s bombardment of Ukraine, which borders Romania, drags on and Vladimir Putin tests the resolve of NATO countries. The ambassador was also…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 16:10 GMT+2 Andrew and Tristan Tate’s lawyers are set to meet federal prosecutors in Miami on Monday to establish a timetable for the brothers’ fight against extradition to the UK, where they face rape and sex trafficking charges. A date for a bond hearing will likely be set during the status conference, along with other important dates like deadlines for filings and a formal extradition hearing. The Tate brothers made a brief court appearance two days after their July 18 arrest. They are not required to attend Monday’s hearing, and their lawyers said they do not…

“We will build this and we will work through the different issues that President Zelenskyy has, many of which we’ve gone into today,” Burnham said. The meeting came as Britain announced it would share intellectual property to help Kyiv’s war effort. The new prime minister announced that the U.K. will share its “Stone Cloak” electronic warfare system —devices attached to drones to help them evade detection — helping Ukraine to produce the technology on a mass scale. Burnham has focused on domestic matters after taking over from Keir Starmer, who was criticized by some in his party for spending too…