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Published on 13 November 2026 – 10:15 GMT+1 Robyn is not shy about her feelings towards the Eurovision Song Contest, labelling the annual music event as “shit” and “embarrassing”. The celebrated Swedish pop star, whose hits include ‘Show Me Love’, ‘With Every Heartbeat’ and ‘Dancing On My Own’, shared her verdict during an appearance on comedian and actress Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Hang. Robyn suggested Eurovision’s appeal had diminished for her since ABBA’s involvement. The Swedish pop group won Eurovision with their hit song ‘Waterloo’ in 1974, and since then, Sweden has won the contest six times – the latest…
Le Pen said she would offer to hold talks with Zelenskyy when she meets the Ukrainian ambassador in France on Monday. The far-right leader is the front-runner ahead of next year’s presidential election and has repeatedly said France can no longer afford to keep financing Ukraine’s war effort. She has estimated that French aid amounts to €6 billion per year, a figure Zelenskyy has challenged. He said the military partnership with Paris is “a win-win” relationship. Zelenskyy also invited Le Pen to Kyiv, telling French weekly l’Express that Le Pen would “change her mind” if she met Ukrainians. Financial aid…
Published on 13 November 2026 – 17:56 GMT+1 Live from morning to night Every morning at 8:00 am, 9:00 am and 10:00 am CET, Stefan Grobe presents Europe Today live from the new Euronews studio. Every evening from 6:30 pm CET, the Euronews Verify team checks the facts behind the news. As the day comes to a close, Mared Gwyn Jones presents Europe Tonight at 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm CET, bringing viewers the biggest stories and making sense of the day. Five new programmes every weeknight at 9:10 pm CET Euronews takes a step back from the…
Ireland, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency and hosted the informal gathering, had billed the meeting as a rare chance for a high-level discussion on how to develop artificial intelligence in accordance with European values. But the question of how to secure peace in Ukraine — and who should negotiate on Europe’s behalf — quickly dominated discussions, as leaders sparred over the format of future peace negotiations and warned about the risks of a potential deal brokered between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Indeed, a meeting next week between the U.S. and Russian leaders has set Europe on edge,…
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A failure in part of Microsoft’s server infrastructure has cut people off from Outlook email, Teams and other everyday office tools for more than a day, with problems reported in 74 countries and territories. The disruption began on Thursday afternoon European time and was still not fully fixed on Friday morning. Microsoft says there is no sign of a cyber attack, but it has yet to name a root cause. Professor Tommaso Valletti at the Imperial Business School in London told Euronews Next “this outage will make many organisations ask whether they have a real contingency plan if their email…
Published on 13 November 2026 – 11:46 GMT+1 The iconic lightsaber used by Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) has broken records in a US auction held by Heritage Auctions. The lightsaber, which was used in the climactic duel in Cloud City where Vader tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father,” was originally expected to sell for over $1 million. It ended up going for $4.875 million (approx. €4.4m) at the Ultimate Star Wars Auction. The sale marks not only a world…
Timing is still everything The first thing to resolve will be on the sequencing of the negotiations — most significantly, when should Europeans allow themselves to discuss Russia’s demand to overhaul regional security? This is a critical and potentially existential question for European countries. And it is already a subject on which top EU officials are weighing their positions with care. Those close to the talks believe a clever way can be found to offer Russia a conversation about regional security as part of careful sequencing of the negotiations, without binding the issue completely into the final peace agreement for…
By Euronews Persian service Published on 13 November 2026 – 18:46 GMT+1 Russian deputy prime minister Alexei Overchuk was welcomed by a guard of honour when he arrived in Kabul on Thursday with a delegation of 70 Russian business people to conduct business talks with the Taliban government, Afghan officials said. Overchuk met Taliban prime minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the deputy prime minister for economic affairs Abdul Ghani Baradar as well as foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. According to a statement by the Afghan government published on X, Abdul Ghani Baradar described to the Russians Afghanistan’s potential for economic development and…
Published on 13 November 2026 – 18:35 GMT+1 Two candidates have been put forward to replace Christine Lagarde at the helm of the European Central Bank, an EU official said on Friday, as EU leaders gathered in Dublin for an informal summit. Spanish daily El País also reported that France and Germany were finalising a deal on the central bank’s top jobs, with Spain’s Pablo Hernández de Cos as the favourite to become the next president. The official did not name the two candidates, but as Euronews previously reported, the contenders are Pablo Hernández de Cos and former Dutch central…