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Published on 14/08/2026 – 11:26 GMT+2 Russian forces killed one person and injured 17 others in strikes on Kramatorsk and the nearby village of Bilenke, Ukraine on Thursday evening, officials in Donetsk said. Eight guided aerial bombs struck between 20:30 and 20:56 local time (19:30 and 19:56 CET), hitting residential buildings, including an apartment block. The regional prosecutor’s office said “one person is known to have been killed and 17 injured,” with victims suffering blast injuries, shrapnel wounds and burns. Moscow has not confirmed or denied the strike. Russian authorities, meanwhile, reported a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Baltic…
The fire broke out shortly before 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 13 August, and was driven by strong, shifting winds, reaching within a few hundred metres of homes in Luglon. By Friday morning, the Landes prefecture said more than 1,100 hectares had burned. No homes had been destroyed, but residents and a nearby campsite were evacuated as a precaution and taken to a reception centre in Sabres. Two departmental roads around Luglon were also closed to traffic. Around 500 firefighters were deployed alongside 40 forest‑fire vehicles, with aircraft including Canadairs, Dash water‑bombers and Air Tractors supporting the operation. Rising humidity overnight…
By Ana Filipa Palma & Euronews Published on 14/08/2026 – 10:20 GMT+2•Updated 10:28 A study by Portugal’s Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (ICAD) has found that 18-year-olds are spending more time on the internet, especially on social media. The findings are based on a survey of young people taking part in the 2025 National Defence Day. Most young people (60%) use the internet for an average of four or more hours a day, with intensive use (five hours or more) on the rise compared with previous years. “In itself, this indicator is not necessarily a sign of problems, but rather of a…
Published on 14/08/2026 – 9:51 GMT+2•Updated 10:29 New information has been revealed about the most eagerly awaited wedding of the year. The “Jornal de Notícias” (source in Portuguese) obtained the marriage record between Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez, reporting that the civil ceremony took place at the couple’s residence in Cascais on Tuesday 11 August at 1.30 p.m. Also present at the venue were four witnesses, as well as the family’s five children, as had initially been disclosed by the agency representing the player. In particular, Miguel Paixão, a friend of the footballer since his youth days at Sporting,Ivana Rodríguez,…
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Published on 14/08/2026 – 9:58 GMT+2 The US military is pushing back on reports of a mental health crisis among crewmembers on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been at sea for more than 260 days as it takes part in Washington’s operations in the Middle East. In a post on social media, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said there had been “several false claims” and “rampant misreporting” relating to the carrier’s deployment and that the crew remained “resilient and resolved.” Concerns have been growing in recent days over the welfare of the crew and the conditions on…
But Binface, a proud proponent of the British tradition of satirical candidates contesting elections, had never won more than 308 votes in a parliamentary election before. Against Farage, he secured 9,455 votes. That means 28 percent plumped for the comedy candidate with a bin on his head. Farage on Friday snubbed the leisure center count and the mild embarrassment of accepting victory alongside Binface that three prime ministers — Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Andy Burnham — have endured before him. He told his own “Farage Fest” jamboree organized in secret away from the results venue that he’d been advised by…
US President Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers. The memo issued on Thursday directs the Pentagon and the Navy to present Trump with plans to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, within two months. It also says the Ford-class carrier’s electromagnetic weapons elevators should be replaced. According to the directive, the new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most…
Published on 14/08/2026 – 8:47 GMT+2 This week, more than 90 per cent of the Sun was obscured by the Moon, and in some cases in mainland Europe, was completely obscured in the first total eclipse since 1999. According to new listening data from Spotify, streams of eclipse and space-themed songs surged during the solar eclipse, with Bonnie Tyler leading the way. The data comparing streams on eclipse day against the 1-11 August daily average shows that the Welsh singer’s hit song ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’ experienced a 14 per cent boost worldwide, including a whopping 94 per cent…
Zelenskyy moved his reshuffle plans forward so he could offer the ambassadorship to Yulia Svyrydenko, the outgoing prime minister, according to a former senior Ukrainian official and a Republican foreign expert familiar with the background to the shake-up. But she declined, disrupting his plans. “It is no secret that I counted on and offered Yulia Svyrydenko the post of ambassador to the United States,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference in late July. He added that he was looking for a candidate with the highest possible qualifications: “a person at the level of a deputy prime minister, minister, or prime…