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EU defence ministers gather in Wicklow this morning to kick off a week of informal yet high-level gatherings, following a summer marked by a surge in security incidents across the continent. At centre-stage this morning is the expectation, as our correspondent Shona Murray reports from the ground in Ireland, that Berlin will formally blame Russia for a suspected drone attack targeting a Ukrainian cargo aircraft carrying military supplies at Leipzig/Halle airport in early August. Reports suggest an explosives-laden drone, apparently intended to detonate, was found near the aircraft. Speaking to Shona in an interview, Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Malmer…
A 17-year-old North Carolina girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and then published the attackers’ white-supremacist manifesto has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting, a district attorney said on Monday. Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill said at a news conference in Winston-Salem that the girl, identified in court records as Sarah L. Santiago, was arrested last week. A grand jury indicted her on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy. “At this time I can confirm that my client is innocent of all these…
Shares in fast-fashion giant Shein fell as much as 10% on their trading debut on Hong Kong’s stock market on Tuesday, before recovering some of their losses, following years of delay to the company’s plans to list publicly and regulatory setbacks in Europe and in the US. Shein’s initial public offering opened on 24 August, with the final share price set a week later on 31 August. Trading began the following day, on Tuesday. The gap reflects standard IPO process, as investors placed their orders over about a week, the banks running the deal then fixed the final price and…
Behind the roar of the engines and the visual spectacle of every liftoff at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a critical division is at work whose efforts may go unnoticed unless something goes wrong: the Flight Safety Division. This team has a clear mission: to ensure the absolute protection of the population and technical staff from the moment the rocket leaves the launch pad until all its stages have been deactivated and fallen back to Earth. Euronews interviewed Léonard Buchaillot, a flight safety engineer at France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), to understand how safety is managed around a…
While actively running the EU’s foreign policy on the world’s most demanding issues, Kaja Kallas still finds time outside work to read about … more foreign policy. The top EU diplomat and former Estonian prime minister frequently talks about her love of reading, citing her favorite authors in speeches and meeting with them privately to discuss their work. Since taking up her most recent post in December 2024, she has read at least 52 books she has shared publicly — all of which she has posted on her Instagram — most of them related to international affairs. In total, she…
Published on 01/09/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Brussels has built one of the world’s densest regulatory frameworks for digital technologies. For experts, it is high time to centralise enforcement under a single European agency to overcome the fragmentation now holding it back. The EU’s digital rulebook spans more than 171 laws and 315 regulatory bodies — an unwieldy structure that has opened up a significant enforcement gap, leaving the bloc structurally unable to uphold its own rules. That is the conclusion of a paper authored by Kai Zenner, head of office of MEP Axel Voss (Germany/EPP), and Maria Koomen, an independent…
The number of people unaccounted for after a deadly flash flood hit part of the Grand Canyon has fallen to one as US Park Rangers said they had managed to make contact with over a dozen people who had been missing. A monsoonal downpour that lashed the northern side of the huge canyon sent torrents of water, rock and debris down a popular hiking course on Saturday, washing out campgrounds in Bright Angel Canyon and around the historic Phantom Ranch. Two men are known to have died in the sudden flood whose bodies were recovered as search and rescue teams…
Phantom hacker scams, also known as phantom scams, have surged in recent years. These are elaborate frauds in which criminals convince victims their money or computer has been compromised by a hacker. The scammer then pushes the victim to move their savings into a supposedly “safe” account, which is in fact controlled by the criminals themselves. The rise of artificial intelligence, online banking and social media has fuelled the trend — more ways to pay and receive money mean more entry points for scammers to exploit. How phantom hacker scams work Some of the most common phantom hacker scams work…
Picture a getaway: rest, relaxation, rejuvenation and much-needed treatments against the backdrop of serene surroundings and no dings from urgent notifications. Sign me up, I say… Hollywood has captured my sentiment in ‘Spa Weekend’, a new comedy film that hit big screens earlier in August. It follows the misadventures of four lifelong friends who realise that in between juggling careers with everyday responsibilities, they lost track of taking care of themselves and each other. As burnout reaches breaking point, they all go for a – you guessed it – spa weekend. With the trend now going beyond cinema theatres, luxury…
Adult activity books, blending puzzles with pop culture and mysteries to solve, have become a publishing phenomenon. Murdoku, with more than 140,000 copies sold in Spain, leads a booming genre that many associate with digital detox. It used to be the newsstand crossword, the one you took on the metro or into the dentist’s waiting room. Now it is a purple-covered notebook with the outline of a house drawn as a sudoku grid, or a hardback packed with questions about Rosalía and Netflix series. Adult activity books, the latest mutation of the classic pastime, have become a publishing phenomenon that…